Hey! I can't find these results anywhere!!
Hey! I can't find these results anywhere!!
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Adams St. won with a score of 25 points.
I believe that's the year the leaders took a wrong turn?
Yes, 1993 was the year the leaders took a wrong turn.
Adams State won with 25 points. Although several schools (including Western State) contemplated protesting the result nobody did in deference to Coach Vigil who had announced his retirement.
The course was poorly marked in a couple sections and the meet director was questioned about this at the coaches technical meeting. He dismissed concerns and noted that the country club (in Riverside, CA...don't remember the name) did not want any type of painted line on their grass.
Not too far into the race the leaders went the wrong way. Most of the field followed. One of the Western assistants at the time was urged by another coach to send his athletes the right way, but it wasn't until far back in the pack that any runners followed the correct course.
The meet directors scrambled to fix the problem and basically left out a section of the course. Only a handful of runners actually ran the right course---you had two groups...Those on the adjusted course and those on the real course.
With a mile to go Phil Castillo had a huge lead on Shane Healy...both from Adams State. I'm not sure if Healy's kick (he was an outstanding miler type) or Castillo slowing down was responsible, but Healy caught him and won.
There was a lot of confusion after the race. The NCAA representative was a real arrogant SOB who, I'm convinced, had never been in charge of a cross-country meet before (or since, let's hope)...I overheard a reporter asking him about the confusion and questioning the results...His reply was something along the lines of "just spell my name right in the story..."
I think it was a guy from WSC who actually completed the real course first---and he could claim the national championship---but nobody wanted to go there and try and upstage coach Vigil and his final title. Probably for the best.
All in all it was somewhat of a fiasco.
Thanks for the scoop. I'm speculating that another reason coaches didn't protest was because Adams was truly the best team that year. Western wasn't in the same league at that point. How would have the Western guy done had he stayed on the wrong course? Was he a legitimate potential winner?
No...he was not a potential winner
Although a couple of coaches, including myself and the WSC assistant saw the wrong turn immediately, it was hard to decide what to do...I had no athletes in the men's race but yelled to the WSC coach (Joe Winegartner???) to send his guys the right way...he hesitated as most of the field went by. It was one of those kind of paralyzing moments---"what exactly to do?"...I'm guessing it was Western's 5th or 6th man who finally went the right way, but even then not very many followed him.
Actually WSC was not that far off from Adams in '93. I think the conference meet was a 4-5 point difference.
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