Does anyone know about this guy? Broke the course record at the Colfax Golf Course for 8k set by Edward Cheserek of Oregon in 2015 at the Pac-12s on his way to winning the NCAA championships.
This is the only thing I can find on this guy. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see him in the World Athletics database. Washington State has nothing in his bio page other than a picture.
He’ll go up against real competition at Notre Dame’s Joe Piane invite on October 4th.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's listed on the WSU roster as a freshman. If he's the 27 year old 27:27 guy, wouldn't that make him at the very least a junior, or has all the NCAA age eligibility rules gone out the window?
He’ll go up against real competition at Notre Dame’s Joe Piane invite on October 4th.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's listed on the WSU roster as a freshman. If he's the 27 year old 27:27 guy, wouldn't that make him at the very least a junior, or has all the NCAA age eligibility rules gone out the window?
What age-related eligibility rules? He wouldn’t jump to being a junior just because he’s older.
You can totally feel there should be an age limit, but late-20s Kenyans running in the NCAA certainly isn’t new. Suleiman Nyambui ran for UTEP from age 25-29 and won NCAA XC at 27 in 1980. In 1983 Zakariah Barie won at age 30!
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He’ll go up against real competition at Notre Dame’s Joe Piane invite on October 4th.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but he's listed on the WSU roster as a freshman. If he's the 27 year old 27:27 guy, wouldn't that make him at the very least a junior, or has all the NCAA age eligibility rules gone out the window?
You are wrong. NCAA D1 has rules best on time first enrolled in an American college among other things, not age. You can compete at 300 if you haven't taken any college courses as a full time student yet.
Eligibility Timeline Division I five-year clock: If you play at a Division I school, you have five-calendar years in which to play four seasons of competition.
Clock starts when a student enrolls full time. Most do this right after hs, but that is irrelevant. You can enroll at any age and start the clock. It has nothing to do with age. In fact, it is illegal to exclude anyone in the us based on age so the ncaa couldn't make a max age rule even if they wanted to.
It used to be rules on prize money that kept good runners from competing as a pro - the rule used to be you couldn't accept any prior to ncaa comp, but that has changed a bit.
The reason few start competing late is because there is little for post hs not pros but the ncaa in the us. And because post scholastics, life sucks in the us without a degree.
