rosters for Virginia Invitational announced! / Big race in Virginia, some lingering questions for me

Nice run by Elise Stearns with a win in 16:18.

CO has some work to do, will be interesting to read what Wetmore has to say. Covert and Baloga run well. Maybe Hertenstein and Baran are fine and just not racing (but maybe not?). But who is their 5th? Can Cook or Starliper or Dishon be that solid 5th?

NAU wins handily while resting several

Solid time for a hilly course like that. She is looking like a top contender again.

Stanford men in 9th. Ky Robinson 3rd, otherwise dismal showing. Sprout 62nd. Leo 46th & Lex 75th. They should retire and just make videos. Meanwhile, other freshmen stepped up. Rocky Hansen 5th.

What happened to Stanford? Ninth is a rough result. Are they just not as good as we thought?

Rocky Hanson with 3rd is huge for sale forest. Gorze did good for Washington too. 46 isn’t too bad for also but was definitely expecting better. Stanford can not be happy with these results.

Scrimgeor of Georgetown 59th at Nationals last year runninbg right with Stearns and Appelton

and now CO runners and team are missing from the results at the finish (but in for the splits)?

Must be a glitch.

Something looks off with the timing results. The are listed 195th and down.

Same thing with UW.

tfrrs has it right

Looks like they Princetoned the race, protests to come.

Ouf…. Leo and Lex (rough)

The thing is that fast times means nothing.

Everybody is running fast times.

ok, Lex ran 13:34 in HS

In 2010, 13:34 would rank you 6th in the NCAA. Real shot at making the podium.

Now that puts him 75th in a random NCAA XC race.

BYU men 2nd without their top 2. A lot would have to go wrong for NAU if BYU were to beat them. Clearly a step behind NAU but far ahead of everyone else in the field. Top 3 should be very solid with Nokes, Clinger and Rooks.

Stanford may be trying a new strategy. RUN poorly early and peak at nationals.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Cole Sprout gets back to his old All-American self but this team might not even finish in the top 10 at NCAAs. They have no 5 guy and their 3 and 4 guys are freshmen.

If Casey Clinger and Kenneth Rooks runs BYU could still be competitive for the title.

I thought Luke Tewalt was supposed to be really good this year.

This is what is was like when Grant Fisher ran for Stanford before Ricardo santos started coaching.

They would never race their full team until Wisco, where they didn’t even run that well. Conference and Nationals they would only race well for. Apparently, a little history lesson, not new, just back to the old days.