How Do You Become ALL AMERICAN?

Finalists are 1St team all american, semi finalists not advancing 2nd team all-american.

strait man wrote:

Finalists are 1St team all american, semi finalists not advancing 2nd team all-american.

Is that a new rule? Does that mean everyone in the 10000m is an All-American?

OK so I looked it up. It is now that places 9-16 are 2nd Team All-American but it used to be just 1-8 or top 8 U.S. born were All-American. It seems like everything else they decided to make it easier to be All-American to the point that it does not hold as much value now.

Funnyman wrote:

OK so I looked it up. It is now that places 9-16 are 2nd Team All-American but it used to be just 1-8 or top 8 U.S. born were All-American. It seems like everything else they decided to make it easier to be All-American to the point that it does not hold as much value now.

Maybe in the 1950s.

tuccone wrote:

Funnyman wrote:

OK so I looked it up. It is now that places 9-16 are 2nd Team All-American but it used to be just 1-8 or top 8 U.S. born were All-American. It seems like everything else they decided to make it easier to be All-American to the point that it does not hold as much value now.

Maybe in the 1950s.

No. 1985-2005.

Really 1985-2010.

NCAA DIII Track it's Top 8 or nothing. Only a matter of time before they expand it to whoever makes nationals. They keep lowering the bar.

LOL Hey! Still All-American

tech guy 5 wrote:

NCAA DIII Track it's Top 8 or nothing. Only a matter of time before they expand it to whoever makes nationals. They keep lowering the bar.

D3 would be a fake AA anyway.

Funnyman wrote:

OK so I looked it up. It is now that places 9-16 are 2nd Team All-American but it used to be just 1-8 or top 8 U.S. born were All-American. It seems like everything else they decided to make it easier to be All-American to the point that it does not hold as much value now.

Being top 8 U.S. born as the old All-American (now 1st team) seems easy, there are tons of international athletes in the US, so under those rules you could be 13th place and be called All-American. Most people don't really care about 2nd team All-American, 2nd team doesn't get any hardware. I was 2nd team all-american, I just have a plaque that says my event and 2nd team all-america. The trophy is what matters, and that's only for top 8, which sometimes only contains a few Americans in it. Mantz was the first American to win cross country championships in a decade. There have been kenyan champs, australian champs, canadian champs during this time, as well as top performers from a bunch of other countries. The NCAA is almost like a world U23 championship

Funnyman wrote:

Really 1985-2010.

That’s literally 50 years ago.