NC State Women are a dominant 1st and men finish dead last. Has to be one of the biggest quality differences between men and women in a program ever
Their men are terrible. Have 1 guy in the B race Michael Haskin who has a youtube channel, he would be have been their 4th today I believe. Dook is also bad, neither can compete with UNC after losing their two studs even
I was just talking to a buddy. He said, "A Kenyan transfer led Colorado to 2nd in the men's race. Mark Wetmore is rolling over in his grave."
I replied, "He's not dead yet - or at least he wasn't - this might send him there."
TO be honest, it kind of reminds me of the one and dones in NCAA hoops. Duke wasn't going to do it and then they got with the times. You either do it or lose.
Look at NCAA football right now, Clemson isn't in the portal and they are shell of their former selves.
Serius NAU imploded. Were in 4th after 2k and ended up 18th. Wtf happened there. It wasn’t just one runner but all 7 runners sht the bed early in the race. Were they all sick with food poisoning or something??? Confused. Not a good look for Corfield. At this rate he won’t last 1 year at NAU.
On the other hand, the men performed better than their national ranking. I did not foresee the NAU men placing 14 spots higher than the women.
PS. Just as all of the Jerry and Lanana haters have gone home devastated inn recent years, I think the Sean Carlson haters are going home devastated today.
Look, you don't have to love these big name coaches as people, but if you thought thoseguys weren't going to be successful just because their teams weren't good in year 1, you were just jealous and being stupid.
Given their track records, they were going to be good. If you know how to recruit, have a school that is attractive to recruits and can coach a little, you will be pretty good if your school is invested.
Top 3 men at Pre Nats: Kelvin Cheruiyot, Elkana Kipruto, Timothy Chesondin
Top 3 men at Nuttycombe: Habtom Samuel, Solomon Kipchoge, Bernard Cheruiyot
So sick of this!
I think all baseball fans agree with you.
If only we could get the Dodgers to send all of their Japanese pitchers back to Japan, the Hernandez boys back to Puerto Rico and the Dominican,. Kim back to South Korea, Rojas back to Venezuela, and Andy Pages back to Cuba, then maybe the other teams would have a chance.
The world is flat. Let's start with an age cap. And a transfer cap.
In the new NIL era , NAU is'nt going to be able to compete. Mike has a bunch of young kids and started to let it slide in recruiting. knew he was leaving. He left the cupboard bare.
Contrast that to that to Eric Heins who gift-wrapped Smth a few nattys.
NAU's boys are thin right now, but NAU's girls team is pretty loaded. Stutzman was one of the best Colorado girls preps ever, beating Michalak at state in the 1600 and 3200 her senior year . Kiki Vaughn is a mega talent. They go ten deep. Something was definitely off today; they shouldn't be this mediocre.
Diljeet Taylor is an exceptional coach, and her impact at BYU is undeniable. Take Taylor Lovell as an example. When she signed with BYU, I was shocked. As an unheralded high school athlete, she only claimed a state title in her final high school race. In a relatively weak state for girls' distance running, she placed 7th at Arizona XC State her senior year and 48th at Woodbridge—solid, but not standout.
Yet, at Pre-Nationals, Lovell was BYU’s #7 runner—a position that would have made her the #1 or #2 runner on nearly every other team. She’s also an All-American in the steeplechase. This is no fluke; it’s a testament to BYU’s remarkable athlete development under Taylor’s guidance. The program doesn’t just rely on blue-chip recruits—it transforms talent into elite performers, year after year.
I get it. Ya'll hate her because she's loud. But she's one of the only coaches staying competitive with American athletes.
Shoutout to Landon Pretre of Wake Forest. Looks like the highest-placing American true freshman at Panorama Farms. Campbell is British, Balewicz and Morgenfeld are both redshirts.
Stanford definitely doesn’t look like a podium contender (they’ll be fighting to make it to nattys it looks like), but they’ve got a really young team. Leo Young is a junior and the only upperclassman in their top 5 (and they didn’t run Lex). Excited to see how they develop this year and next. Also probably Colin Sahlmans best college XC race, at least that I remember.
North Carolina had Colton Sand in 15th, great to see them still producing top runners after Strand and Wolfe left.
Also Tayvon Kitchen 21st for the top freshman (beating Kosgei by less than .1 for the honor). Is he doing XC before his mission like Clinger did? Or (please god) is he not doing one?
Was Riley Hough top American in 8th? I seem to remember him being good in HS but don’t remember anything since off the top of my head. With pbs of 4:02/13:34 I can’t imagine he’s done much in college, doesn’t look like he’s made it to nationals yet. Awesome to see him with such a good run here.