Who is Steve Prefontaine?
Who is Steve Prefontaine?
are you retarded?
xc........? wrote:
Who is Steve Prefontaine?
The guy that Nicodemus Naimadu from Abilene Christian broke his NCAA Cross Country record for the most consecutive wins?
Actually, comparing Nico's record to Pre's is not a fair comparison...in Pre's day, freshmen could not run in the NCAA Championships..correct me if I'm wrong.
Freshmen were allowed to run back then. PRE was 3rd to Lindgren as a frosh... "In his last collegiate race, the '69 cross country race at Van Cortlandt Park, Lindgren beat Mike Ryan of Air Force (the defending champ who had won in Lindgren's absence), who finished second, and freshman Steve Prefontaine, who finished third with his only NCAA loss."
And for what it is worth, I obviously knew who Prefontaine was. I was mocking the other guy for asking if anyone remembered Prefontaine. Anyone who has ever stumbled upon letsrun.com knows about him.
whatever happened to Mike Ryan?
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Don't think this is the guy since this guy graduated in 65 and the NCAA meet in question was in 69..
In 2006 is was 98 degrees with constant 30-40 MPH winds...
I think that explains the times quite well.
You can't compare what Nico and Pre did. Pre did it against the best competition in the country. Not taking anything from Nico. What he did was amazing, but put him up against Rupp or McDougal, I can't see him winning 4 years in a row.
I usually like to read these messages and not post. Nothing against posting, just not a poster. But when I saw Ben's name, I got some nostalgia for days gone by, and I wanted to set the record straight.
Art is an excellent coach, and has seen great success. Saying that he had nothing to do with Ben and Jared's success is not relevant. Martin, Joel, Larry, Maynard, Beresford, Cusick, Miles, and many more -- all Art's products.
It so happens that the man who coached Ben (and Jared) was Scott VanSickle, and excellent and underrated 4-8-jumps coach. Incidentally, Art is now coaching Jared, who just won Washington last chance.
Sincerely, a Scott product who was almost good.