Actually if you look at many of the events especially in the sprints hurdles and jumps the marks are pretty poor for a championship event. Most of these athletes would have little chance in D2 never mind D1. Especially when you look at what scores in places 5-8. Those are marks You could expect to see at a decent high school state championship.
do you have a sticky shift?
the weatherman wrote:
Actually if you look at many of the events especially in the sprints hurdles and jumps the marks are pretty poor for a championship event. Most of these athletes would have little chance in D2 never mind D1. Especially when you look at what scores in places 5-8. Those are marks You could expect to see at a decent high school state championship.
Look beyond the end of your short nose - DIII has had a few "field event" athletes do pretty well compaired to DI. Jeremy Scott of Allegheny College comes to mind first. He pole vaults 18'8 to make the 2003 Indoor World Championship team for U.S. as a senior in college at a so called "baby" college. He then graduates with one more year of eligibity left and some how ends up at Arkansas. He finishes 4th at the DI meet to become a DI All-American.
Here is the email I sent Wejo.
Hey guys, I like your site a lot and visit it almost everyday, but your
title "Baby Nationals" is pretty offensive. I ran DIII and won a team
national championship and don't consider what my teammates and I did to be
"baby" compared to Division I.
I don't appreciate the belittling of that level along with DII and NAIA.
All the athletes in those divisions work just as hard as the top runners in
DI.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work on the rest of the site.
The response
The attempt wasn't too offend. It was just to contrast them with D1
Nationals which is like their big brother.
The smaller divisions are the purest form of running which we like.
-Weldon
Well,
I appretiate the response, but the site lost a user today.
The original post was offensive, something I can expect from many users of the site, but not from Wejo.
Sorry, but you jumped the shark.
D3 baby wrote:
Ya no shit I'm pretty sure that if D3 Champions went to Heps we would shit on you guys so, wejo you can suck a dick
While I understand your resentment about the uncalled for slight of Div III athletics I afraid you're way out here regarding Heps.
If you put Princeton's Heps results in the Div III nationals they'd beat the current Div III Champ in the field events alone by a significant margin (77-35)!
or Greg Nixon, Andrew Rock, Clive Terrelonge, Dan Mayer, Karl Paranya, Jeremy Scott..