Phil Lahuarte was running around 8:00 for 3000 as late as 1988.
Phil Lahuarte was running around 8:00 for 3000 as late as 1988.
I ran that race at madison and got 87th as i recall. Only time i ever scored for Tennessee. Damn proud of that 87th. My friends at home never could understand how 87th could make you proud. I\'ll bet you all can understand it.Other NCAA finishes were 201 and 208. Ouch..
Chip, With all the Africans, Irish, Aussies etc. running NCAA at that time (typically 27 yo frosh), 87th musta put you in the top 50 americans. On those other finishes, ouch is right ;). So easy to happen in that race though. If you are having a bad day it eats you up real easy.
Squid...........guess that would be about right. top 60 anyway. never did stop to figure it out. Would love to see those results just to see the names of all the old running junkies. I am from Ann Arbor but ran for the Vols with a bunch of other michigan guys. I was intrigued by this thread as i knew alot of those Big Ten dudes. Donakowski brothers, Steve Elliot,Weidenbach ,Herb, Stan Mavis etc. I do remember John Tuttle from Auburn was right in front of me and some other guy from Rice who ended up running a pretty good marathon himself. His name escapes me.Marty something or other i believe.
Squid wrote:
McGato, if that stretch was a couple of years previous, then we would have been running together in it, pounding the pavement in O-town. I remember doing some Sunday 20 milers with Mort and Jones that were just brutal. A cold, clear day indeed. It would have never occurred to me to run in that weather were it not for those guys.
Yup, good memories.
Marty Froelich--2:10 or 2:11 marathon PR. He was a club mate at one time. Super nice guy. I'll look around to see if I still have those results--yes there were a lot of big names in those rankings. Top 100 at NCAA DI is pretty darn good. I also trained a little with the Iowa guys during breaks and such. Rich Fuller is still doing pretty well in the 50+ category.
AK..........that would be cool if you had them. Froelich is the guy. he seemed like a good guy then too. We stood in the cold in that chute for awhile. Can't believe it was damn near 30 years ago. Until i step on a scale....
Ok, just want to note for the record here that few(if any) of the MI guys will show up in those 1978 NCAA results. The week after that Big Ten meet, regionals were held in Minneapolis at the UofM golf course on Larpenteur Ave. On a bitter, breezy but snowless day, the Wolverines folded like a house of cards in the wind and were crushed by the Golden Gophers, who took full advantage of the home field advantage to finish second, thereby securing the NCAA berth. The Gophs were cheered on by literally dozens of rabid cross-country fans. With no at-large bids, the Michiganders went home with a meaningless third place finish. No better sight to me than seeing D.L. Heikkeinen throwing down his spikes in anger at the end of the race. GO BLUE!!
The party later that night at Chez Plasencia/Metzler was not to be missed.
Was Froelich the first finisher for Rice that year? What happened to Mike Novelli? He was the star of the team and was ranked in the top 10 for the 5,000 that year by T&FN.
http://members.aol.com/quinmarti/homepage/1980MikeNovelli.html
Nce story! But how did the Golden Gophers feel about getting p'unked in 1980 by DIII Carleton at the U's own invite?
Squid wrote:
Ok, just want to note for the record here that few(if any) of the MI guys will show up in those 1978 NCAA results. The week after that Big Ten meet, regionals were held in Minneapolis at the UofM golf course on Larpenteur Ave. On a bitter, breezy but snowless day, the Wolverines folded like a house of cards in the wind and were crushed by the Golden Gophers, who took full advantage of the home field advantage to finish second, thereby securing the NCAA berth. The Gophs were cheered on by literally dozens of rabid cross-country fans. With no at-large bids, the Michiganders went home with a meaningless third place finish. No better sight to me than seeing D.L. Heikkeinen throwing down his spikes in anger at the end of the race. GO BLUE!!
The party later that night at Chez Plasencia/Metzler was not to be missed.
Uh, I don't remember that one...they clearly out-smarted us though.
Squid wrote:
The Gophs were cheered on by literally dozens of rabid cross-country fans...
The party later that night at Chez Plasencia/Metzler was not to be missed.
Me and BB froze our asses off watching that. Missed the party though. Probably didn't invite high schoolers.
Squid wrote:
Uh, I don't remember that one...they clearly out-smarted us though.
Actually, they ran circles around us for years and for the most part out smarted us too.
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Me and BB froze our asses off watching that. Missed the party though. Probably didn't invite high schoolers.[/quote]
Froze your asses off? Impossible. You two sticks barely had any to start with.
There were high-schoolers at that party. Just not your gender.
Squid wrote:
No better sight to me than seeing D.L. Heikkeinen throwing down his spikes in anger at the end of the race.
This happened after every race.
Squid wrote:
There were high-schoolers at that party. Just not your gender.
Ouch. That hurts.
Squid wrote:
No better sight to me than seeing D.L. Heikkeinen throwing down his spikes in anger at the end of the race.
This happened after every race.[/quote]
He must have really been pissed when he got outkicked in the last 30 meters of the '79 Central Collegiate XC 5 mile race![quote]Grumpy Guy wrote:
As of 1999, Randy Jackson was a teacher at the middle school I went to in Eastern Iowa. I'm 100% sure this is the same Randy Jackson.
Randy Jackson update wrote:
As of 1999, Randy Jackson was a teacher at the middle school I went to in Eastern Iowa. I'm 100% sure this is the same Randy Jackson.
Was this in Iowa City? I coach in Dubuque, and remember Randy Jackson was the head girls' track coach at IC City High in the mid-90s. That was some time ago, though, and I haven't heard whether he's doing any coaching since then.
No. Small town between IC and Davenport.