NC State wins thrilling battle with Notre Dame

Seymour seemed to have an off race.

Markezich May have had a shot at 2nd if she didn’t go out so fast.

BROOKE RAUBER!!!!

Hopefully Seymour's race is an aberration.

Indeed both ND runners went out too fast and faded bad in 3k mark

NC State 1 (19:08.9), 2 (19:20.0), 5 (19.45.7), 10 (19:58.5), 16 (20:05.9) = ave 19:39.8

ND - 3 (19:29.7, 6 (19:47.5), 7 (19:52.7), 8 (19:56.0), 14 (20:05.6) = ave 19:50.3

NC State has a whole lot more depth. though. ND can't afford anyone to have an off day or they are toast.

NC State - 1, 2, 5, 10, 16, 19, 29, 34, 65, 80

ND - 3, 6, 7, 8, 14, 63, 64, 85, 110, DNF

Katelyn, Kelsey, 1, 2. Way to represent NY!

Still made top 7

NC State is not going to win the National title! NM is definitely the favorite after this sad performance. You can’t beat NM with a minute gap between 1 and 5, hell you can’t beat them with over a 35 second gap between your 1 and 3.

These last two races proved what I thought before the season began when I saw NC State was not running once at Stillwater……they are in trouble! They suck on hilly courses! Tuohy will win the National title and Chmiel will get 2nd or 3rd because they have always been awesome hill runners, but the others are not. Sam not strong on hills and never ran Stillwater which is worst than the last two courses, and Seymour way way back. And Starliper injured. Yikes!!!! They are in serious trouble.

And then when I watched Sam’s interview yesterday and she said Henes said that training on hills is not important but preparing mentally is….I knew they were in trouble. You need both, every good coach knows that!

what the hell?!?!?

i hate myself for agreeing on this, but yea u r right, track and cross country are 2 different sport indeed

anyways heres a vid of katelyn finding out they won the team title, like ... girl did not even expect to win the team title lol

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkQ58NdNhg0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

youtube vid of katelyn's interview ~ cant believe i was able to watch the whole race too

So does this confirm that Starliper is injured again and out for the season? Anyone know what her status is?

noo.. she will still race at nationals

I think this may be true. She definitely is not out, but apparently she is not training with the team. So she is dealing with something. 🤞🙏

Solid race by Tuohy today. Impressive time and PB at 19:08.

I'll be honest though, I thought she might be in trouble there for a few minutes. Did anyone else think she looked tired today?

Bush saw OSU course at 2020 nats. Agree NC state not showing great trend, and ok state and bama now have potential 4, 5 runners, and NM about 10 deep, but if kt, chmiel, bush, Seymour and starliper run well, NC st can still win nats.

For individuals, appears to be a battle of Tuohy, Valby, McCabe, Roe and Chelangat.

she did not look really tired, looked fairly in control running those HILLS!!! at the finish she ws congratulating her teammates and immediately picked up brooke rauber

the race was oddly pace, the notre dame girls went out too fast, like really really fast then at 2.5k they slowed, then kt and kelsey took over the lead

AL had a 1-5 gap today of almost 2 minutes (20:29 to 18:33). 1-4 was about 50 seconds. OSU 1-5 was 41 seconds (20:52 to 20:11). What was odd to me is that OSU's times today were almost unchanged for every runner from what they ran at home a month ago. I would think they would be getting faster and it would a faster course. Or did they train right through it? NC State needs Starliper and Seymour up with Bush at 40 seconds off Tuohy - and could use Bush more like 30.

I would say she was more tired after finishing today than she was at Nuttycombe.

I just caught a clip of the end of the race. She had a 3:02 last KM...she was running pretty hard at the end.