NAIA XC/TF 2024-25

They will only take the kids that hit the A and B standard. If it's less then 20 that hit the standard then that's who makes it.

They will take the top 20 declared, regardless if they hit the standard; as said above.

Rumor 1:

Cumberlands speedster Kerrington Eubanks has tested positive for penal phimosis, and unfortunately the surgery will be scheduled for the day of Nationals.

Eubanks status: INACTIVE

Rumor 2:

British Columbia head coach, Laurier Primeau, apparently has been shipping racewalkers across the Canadian borders. Inspired by former president Biden's "ice cream button" placed in the oval office, Primeau has created a top secret racewalker button in his office. Upon being pressed, this button will automatically send out signals via echolocation to remote controlled helicopters filled with elite race walkers, which are sent directly to the track to begin threshold training.

status: pending

Rumor 3:

As we all know, the NAIA legend goes without introduction. Silva continues to produce elite times even at his old age, and doesn't seem to be degressing anytime soon. Many have questioned if Silva is actually the son of LeBron James himself, due to his impressive longevity and increasingly dark facial hair. Rumor has it that the NAIA has sent DNA tests to his dorm. Will edit the post if I hear of official results.

test status: THE KING LIVES ON

Looks like there were some pretty solid individual and relay performances at Drake last weekend. Hoping the username brings this thread back to life, to actually talk track with IWU looming in a few weeks. Marion men and BC women take home the team titles

Marion arent close to winning outdoor this year. BC wins both sides and you guys meltdown because its full roster of international students

UBC's men's team is traditionally the biggest bunch of choke artists in the NAIA

Cumberlands would be my favorite if their team wasn't obviously imploding/worried about their next school and German U23 nats

Don't sleep on the Doane tigers led by trey "big" Dickey

Where has Craig Becker from Dordt been? The guy is a stud but hasn’t ran since XC it looks like.

I would agree about UBC but they have so many points they can have multiple athletes choke and still win this year

Thanks for getting the board poppin’ again Addie. I hope all is well with your training!

Let's vote on the top three NAIA programs to coach or be an athlete at. Consider everything, for example, location/ town, weather, university/ college size, rules at school, administration support, financial support/ budget/ scholarships, number of coaches, and any other factors that mean something to you.

I'll go first in no particular order. I'll think on that

Keiser if I'm any event outside of distance due to the heat. Its in west palm beach, school has money and recruiting in FL alone is awesome. They are a good athletic department and love that. Weather overall would be amazing.

Cumberlands for any event. Its well funded and athletic department is strong in everything and would be great to be in that culture. Location isn't great but nothing wrong with smaller towns as a lot of NAIA schools are this way. They care and means a lot if I was a coach. As an athlete not sure that matters about Milligian is my third. Veteran coach, mountain area for great training as a distance runner. They've had success in events other than distance that shows they can do it. Obviously most the money is going to Distance but they can. Weather is solid being in the south. Not extreme cold like other mountain areas. They also have a strong athletic department even though its a smaller one.

Honorable mention as a coach British Columbia has to be an easy job with limited universities in college athletics across Canada. Beautiful area, big school, invest in all events. Honorable for me because no thank you on Canada winters/ rain

Your turn to tell us which ones and why.

Let's vote on the top three NAIA programs to coach or be an athlete at. Consider everything, for example, location/ town, weather, university/ college size, rules at school, administration support, financial support/ budget/ scholarships, number of coaches, and any other factors that mean something to you.

I'll go first in no particular order. I'll think on that

Keiser if I'm any event outside of distance due to the heat. Its in west palm beach, school has money and recruiting in FL alone is awesome. They are a good athletic department and love that. Weather overall would be amazing.

Cumberlands for any event. Its well funded and athletic department is strong in everything and would be great to be in that culture. Location isn't great but nothing wrong with smaller towns as a lot of NAIA schools are this way. They care and means a lot if I was a coach. As an athlete not sure that matters about

Milligian is my third. Veteran coach, mountain area for great training as a distance runner. They've had success in events other than distance that shows they can do it. Obviously most the money is going to Distance but they can. Weather is solid being in the south. Not extreme cold like other mountain areas. They also have a strong athletic department even though its a smaller one.

Honorable mention as a coach British Columbia has to be an easy job with limited universities in college athletics across Canada. Beautiful area, big school, invest in all events. Honorable for me because no thank you on Canada winters/ rain

Your turn to tell us which ones and why.

Unfortunately for Elijah Wallace, a 1:54 split at drake relays wasn’t good enough to earn himself a spot on cornerstone’s relay at their conference meet. Another issue for the Hatian prince is a small white boy from hickville ran a 1:52 and won the WHAC. Hopefully the prince can make up for this at a last chance meet. Sorry Elijah🥲

Bunch of people wearing super shoes in the Heart of America conference 10k including 1-2 in the men’s 10k. No DQs or enforcement of the rules until coaches complained at the start of day 2

Really shoddy and JV meet ran by CMU overall, the heart should be embarrassed

Conference meet shouid be run by a conference with the help of a host school. Its not CMU fault athletes cheated

It's like that in most NAIA conference meets. The AAC conference meet had officials that didn't know even the most basic rules for field events.

I agree with your first point but I disagree that CMU are not at fault. The meet director should be making sure the rules are enforced and officials are up to standard. There were issues with Jav and LJ/TJ officials too. The hurdles were set to the wrong height for the mens 400mh and was only noticed as athletes got in their blocks. Just poor all round.

Agreed but I assumed the meet director wasn't CMU coach. I assumed that was someone from the conference over seeing it.

28.59 (10k) and 2nd place for Madeo in Germany… Sowder reposted it on Instagram. So he is going to race basically only the 10k, and Asslouj only the 1500?

How they wanna score a lot of points at nats?

Shut up Luca.