Addy Wiley Wins NAIA

Her combined 800/1500 PRs are faster than Mu. She is a generational talent

Why not sign pro now. Running in the NAIA make no sense

Championship style race for her. Just sat on the leader for 5k and destroyed her the last k. Probably felt like marathon pace the first 5k then threshold the last k.

You can't do any better than win, so congrats to her.

Not hard to win when you haven't raced in any cross country meets this fall for your school. All these other kids have raced at least a few times.

What an idiotic and embarrassing stat which is basically equivalent to your mom saying at least you have a nice personality.

What might, I don't know, actually matter is if she ever beats Mu at either of those distances?

That's an odd question since she is already faster at the 1500 while being younger. And if you think combined times are meaningless, tell that to Track and Field News.

Better comparison.

Wiley is only one of two Americans (Mary Slaney) and 41 women in history to run sub-4:00 and sub-1:58. She is the 3rd youngest runner in history to achieve the feat.

By that logic Mu and Wiley are both a bigger talent than David Rudisha.

Wouldn't an nil pay more?

maybe they are

I am sure a big sponsor is lining up. Any day now. Wonder why not?

Never thought about it, but is NAIA covered by the NIL umbrella?

Way to go, Addy Wiley!

She'd finally a lot more challenge in D1. Jogging out 5k with the leaders and then winning by 12 seconds in low 21 for 6k isn't helping her much when there are sub-19 6k runners in D1, but then being able to take it easy while winning at this level left her plenty in the tank for last summer when she destroyed her pr's.

find, not finally.

by that logic the other runners should race less - and would therefore win more.

reread your statement: Not hard to win when you haven't raced...

really - so whoever races least = wins???

that makes no sense.

According to the team website this was the only race she ran this cross country season.

Yes, I agree that it would be more challenging in D1 (and then some). I think she probably has a plan that is looking beyond winning the NAIA. On the one hand, yes, it stands to reason that pushing to get better and run 19lows would be preferable. But, since the track (and middle distances) are where it's at for her, and since I really have no idea what her training has been, I think I'll hold off on critiquing too much after a win. Like you mentioned, her easy "jogging" last year didn't seem to hurt her in the summer.