Any big upsets or surprises at the East and West Regionals?

Brittany Hall didnt make it in the 800 for LSU?

Auburn's 4x1 for the women DQ'd in their race (had one of the fastest times in the nation coming in andslotted to get 4th!

Sambu not getting in is the equivalency of an undefeated New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl.

He was my pick to upset all and win the 10k at Nats.

yeah because training harder makes up for the fact that Lananna thinks his sh*t dont stank and Oregon is too good for regionals... right.

Sambu got into the 10k, and ran an honest effort in the 5k to not qualify in that event.

It is hardly an upset if Sambu wins the 10,000; he is the co-favorite.

I suppose there weren't a lot of people who thought Stanford would take four of the top five places in the men's 10K ... maybe three in top ten. Lowe sure ran a nice race to break up the Cardinal

True, stanford ran very well! They were certainly the team that outperformed the rest in the west regional on the men's side.

Come on guys...the clear surprise non-qualifier is Luther Ambrose not qualifying in the 100 meters. He finished 3rd last year at nationals and failed to make it back this year.

Unfortunately Christian Gonzalez got a stress fracture in his sacrum the week after his conference meet. He had to forego IC4As for worries that it would completely eliminate all hope at regionals. Although he was stuck on alternate with very little running leading up to regionals, he still competed to the best of his ability with all the pain. A disappointing end to senior year but I wish him the best in his future endeavors!

Give me a f*cking break. If a U of SwOosh runner would have been tripped like Kipchumba was in the 10k he would have been miraculously 'waived' into the NCAA final.

feet to the fire wrote:

Bill Huntington wrote:

Alfred Kupchumba (sp?)of Portland failed to qualify in the 10,000, which I guess is a surprise. His coach thought he would qualify easily.

His coach is incredibly over rated. Poor Dunbar.

On the women's side, I was surprised to read about how Liz Costello of Tennessee (indoor/outdoor SEC 5k champion, all-american indoor 5k) fell twice in the last 100m and did not advance to Iowa. Apparently she was suffering from dehydration.

Another surprise, Kate Grace of Yale, dropping a 2:03.41 in the quarterfinals to win the region. A huge outdoor PR for her (previous was 2:04.22) and a great boost as she usually had a hard time producing a faster later round time in a multi-round weekend. I hope she can keep that speed for Iowa.

Jared Bassett of Portland had a good run in the steeple running 8:51 to qualify.

NOT peaking at the wrong time wrote:

Unfortunately Christian Gonzalez got a stress fracture in his sacrum the week after his conference meet. He had to forego IC4As for worries that it would completely eliminate all hope at regionals. Although he was stuck on alternate with very little running leading up to regionals, he still competed to the best of his ability with all the pain. A disappointing end to senior year but I wish him the best in his future endeavors!

Hah what happened last year?? sounds like he has some terribly coaches...

terrible* stupid auto correct

Last year was his first time at the regional meet. He came into the 2010 outdoor season with a modest 4:06 mile PR. Considering the high level of competition there is nowadays, without experience at that level, or with trials/finals experience under his belt, it can surely be difficult to advance in the rounds (His conference is finals only). So to criticize his coach is extremely unnecessary. The program has come an extremely long way for being a small no-name school and will most definitely continue progressing.

I was surprised that Hassan Mead didn't make it in the West 5K

smarter than you wrote:

Last year was his first time at the regional meet. He came into the 2010 outdoor season with a modest 4:06 mile PR. Considering the high level of competition there is nowadays, without experience at that level, or with trials/finals experience under his belt, it can surely be difficult to advance in the rounds (His conference is finals only). So to criticize his coach is extremely unnecessary. The program has come an extremely long way for being a small no-name school and will most definitely continue progressing.

he finished the 2010 outdoor season with a stellar 3:42 pr and still didnt make it out of the prelims. you say it might be difficult to advance in rounds... he cant even advance 1 round.

He got beat by the same runner that beat him at Big Tens, is that a surprise? Clearly, he is not yet back to his regular level. It has probably been too long that he has been out to get back while having to be careful still (just a guess). He always seems like he is over-striding to me, but he is just to big that the impression is biased.

Big 10 wrote:

I was surprised that Hassan Mead didn't make it in the West 5K