N.C State, Women's XC, and distance updates

Somewhere I saw Starliper had a stress reaction last Spring. Tuohy was still being brought along slowly following whatever she did for her knee last June, though in that video vlog that was put on Youtube and posted on on LRC she did not seem to favoring a knee at all. Whether either had a relapse or anything more, who knows?

myopic hs wrote:

Clearly you don’t follow the sport closely. Suggest you do some reading and track D1 results..fall cross country, transfers, returning studs and early indoor track

Ok?!?!?!? What’s your point?!?!?! What are you saying.......that Stanford and NC State are not the two favorites?????? Since you think your so damn smart and “follow the sport SOOO closely”......who are the top two teams in the nation?!?!?! By your own statements and logic Stanford and NC state are the teams to beat......Stanford was 3rd last year and only lost 2 of their 7 and NC State was 5th and lost one but gained Steelman as a transfer! Please bless us with your knowledge?????!!!!!! You have not said a thing yet or made any predictions........ so please enlighten us!

Yes. The main mistakes are to include Wisconsin and exclude Arkansas.

Ezrun wrote:

... Taylor ewert should both finish pretty high this year NCAA

No way. Not even top 100.

No chance to win. They are going to focus on winning the indoor championship and then just hope for the best at XC. They will bomb big time at XC nats like they normally do. Last year was the exception.

Ewert is only about 7th on her team. She will likely finish about 100th if she gets to the starting line. Dudek looks more likely to be All American.

Arkansas has 5 women in the top 14 in the 5k after NC State and UNC have run. Yet some here are giving them no chance.

go run fast and jump high wrote:

Ewert is only about 7th on her team. She will likely finish about 100th if she gets to the starting line. Dudek looks more likely to be All American.

When did this happen? Taylor ewert won a meet for her team and finished second in another

If she's healthy and running well she could definitely finish top 40 which is pretty good

Anyway my point was that freshman can run well NCAA sand finish top 20. Just look at Kelsey chmiel last year.

It happened over the past month now that everyone is running and running 15:xx while she is not.

Leddy Gee wrote:

Ezrun wrote:

... Taylor ewert should both finish pretty high this year NCAA

No way. Not even top 100.

All my chips in the center of the table saying Ewert does finish top 100.

5,000 m from 1/29 starts about 10 minutes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBo9lxEI6C4

go run fast and jump high wrote:

Ewert is only about 7th on her team. She will likely finish about 100th if she gets to the starting line. Dudek looks more likely to be All American.

Izzo has no XC eligibility left so Ewert is probably 5th or 6th on the team but is probably looking at more like 70th at NCAA maybe better since she tends to do better in big meets and on the grass .

Arkansas is solid and would have to be considered the XC favorites if they werent focusing on indoor.

What happened to all of the posters here who were ready to hand the trophy to NC State a few months ago? They look like a team who will finish about 5th. People get too excited about freshmen.

I don't know it's a weird year, still kind of tough to predict what's going on. Most people were assuming that Katelyn Tuohy and Marlee starliper at least be as good as they were senior year and have a chance to be top 20. Several freshmen have finished top 20 over the past 5-10 years so it's not crazy to think that two of the best could do it and really help their team. I still wouldn't count NC State out as they are seemingly focusing more on cross-country. They still have a solid top three and probably about five other Runners who might step in and conceivably give Strong Finish. I would give NC State Arkansas Colorado and Stanford all a decent chance at this point I'm not sure who you think this fifth team is at this point but I think those are the four favorites

It has nothing to do with freshman or senior or whatever. Dudek is running great and will definitely be top 20, probably top 10. But it's just the luck of the draw with who's running well that day and which teams are focused on Cross Country. I agree it's a crazy year. You never know what'll happen might be some surprises, but NC State definitely still has a shot and should be top 4 probably top 3

FastTuohy wrote:

5,000 m from 1/29 starts about 10 minutes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBo9lxEI6C4

Thanks for the video link.

Lauren Gregory has great running form.

I hope she gets to run some 800s and 1600s this track season, so as to help her qualify for the Oly trials in the 5k.

Lauren ran 4:32.9 for a mile in 2019, so she is looking at about 9 seconds faster this year to be under the 4:06 1500m Oly trials standard.

What I see Arkansas and Stanford have the best one through three

While NC State and Colorado probably had the best one through seven

Could NC State maybe get there top five in 10 through 30 and win , I don't know, certainly possible. I think it'll end up being some pretty close scoring. And the fours and the fives will really be the runners to watch

Stanford runs again in LV in another week. Assuming Lawson returns to form I think they have to be the favorite now. It does look like AR is pointed at indoors. BYU has a good team, but are they also pointed at indoors? NC State is not running any distance runners again this week at Clemson - it sure seems like they are pointed at XC. CO is also in the mix. People say NM might have a team with some transfers? Could be close between a number of teams, though on paper Stanford could dominate.

I think most were handing it to Stanford. 6 of 7 back plus Dudek and Roberts.

NC State had 6 of 7 back of a lesser team plus Steelman, Tuohy and Starliper. The other freshmen, while very good were unlikely to score this year.

The real surprise for me is Colorado and Arkansas.

CU has cobbled together 4 transfers, a reclamation project, a redshirt freshman hs star, and 2 classic Wetmore overachievers to form a tough top 8 with less than a 1 minute spread at Fl opener. I still don't think they have enough to win, but top 5, top 3??

Arkansas, in theory only had Gregory and Ewert plus their pack. Suddenly they have 7 running 445 or better mile and 1630 or better 5k with Ewert toward the tail of this group.

So I like Stanford, BYU, Ark, cu and NC State in that order. My guess is Tuohy and Starliper will not run and both Dudek and Ewert will be all-american.