Providence College's Keith Kelly Relives His 2000 NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championship

Great find. Thanks for posting.

Boston41 wrote:

Great find. Thanks for posting.

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One of the coldest NCAA D1 cross country meets in the past 50 years,

https://vimeo.com/181272

18°, 20mph wind, wind chill 2°

Perhaps the coldest since 1955, 12°, 23mph wind.

Keith bring positive energy wherever he goes, he's a legend. The type of person that builds others up .

Great stuff! Thx for posting.

Sorry, I expected the coach to give a biased account but Kimani would have eviscerated the field if the meet were held in nicer conditions. Yeah, yeah, real/pure xc, blood and guts, etc. No beef with Kelly, I like Keith Kelly, it's just hard to get too excited about one talented foreigner beating another one for NCAA xc. Might as well have been Adrian Blincoe. I know, I know, he speaks English well and is extroverted or at least has the more acceptable accent.

And while Kimani and Jorge Torres were fine runners, that's one of the weaker NCAA fields I remember seeing. Prime Goucher with a bum hammy would have gone toe-to-toe with Kelly, Ryan Hall or Rupp would have trounced him. Of note further down the field for LRC old timers is senior year Brian Sell and sophomore Tom McArdle.

How about?

71. Mike Smith (NAU)

126. Chris Miltenburg (UNC)

Sean Graham (American)

3rd from last Andy Powell (Washington)

Uhhh you know....and stuff - Ray Treacy (71 times)

Ghost of Jason Rexing's Trainers wrote:

Sorry, I expected the coach to give a biased account but Kimani would have eviscerated the field if the meet were held in nicer conditions. Yeah, yeah, real/pure xc, blood and guts, etc. No beef with Kelly, I like Keith Kelly, it's just hard to get too excited about one talented foreigner beating another one for NCAA xc. Might as well have been Adrian Blincoe. I know, I know, he speaks English well and is extroverted or at least has the more acceptable accent.

And while Kimani and Jorge Torres were fine runners, that's one of the weaker NCAA fields I remember seeing. Prime Goucher with a bum hammy would have gone toe-to-toe with Kelly, Ryan Hall or Rupp would have trounced him. Of note further down the field for LRC old timers is senior year Brian Sell and sophomore Tom McArdle.

Kimani was already on the downslope after his peerless freshman year. He was not a lock to win, no matter the conditions.

The field was actually pretty good. Sanchez was the American Jr Record holder over 5000 before falling off the face of the planet, Watson and Riley were very solid and always brought it in XC, Blincoe future NCAA champ.

Interesting no one has mentioned freshman Dan Lincoln in 24th. An auspicious beginning. Wasn't this the year when Arkansas got a bunch of JuCo transfers eligible after PreNats so had almost an entirely new roster for NCAAs? Peak McDonnell.

Ryan Hall had his shot at an NCAA XC title. After bailing on spring term at Stanford and doing 25 consecutive weeks over 90mpw or whatever at altitude, he still got lit up by a guy who had only been back training for a couple months after a femoral stress fracture. Rupp would not have started the race in Ames. Would have been interesting to see where a team of modern Oregon prima donnas would've finished on a day like the one in Ames.

248 210 Josh Rohatinsky, Fr 34:03.4 Brigham Young