I have always enjoyed this thread in the past. Here is a Running Times preseason profile of the Badgers. Ryan Collins will help to replace Peacock.
I have always enjoyed this thread in the past. Here is a Running Times preseason profile of the Badgers. Ryan Collins will help to replace Peacock.
Wisconsin has a really good team, but so do a lot of schools this year. It should be a very interesting season.
They have a very low-key meet coming up next week (5ish on Friday, I think; the Triathlon is on the weekend ). I think I will go and see the team and find out what has been going on, who the new guys are etc.
Big News is that the adidas Invitational is on Friday afternoon the 14th and will feature most of the top teams (about forty each gender) because PreNats are not until Sunday and accommodations might be limited due to the conflicting schedules when the meet was re-located to ISU.
With the top 4 having another year (Collins replacing Peacock) and with the 5/6/7 guys being even better/closing the gap and the new guys/milers, it will be a very tough team. Of course, with Indiana getting even better and not being at home, winning the Big Ten will not be easy.
I would love to hear more insight on on the women's program. Obviously, everyone knows Sisson transfered. Comfort has been strong all three years. I would love to see them back NCAA's
Wisco Fan wrote:
http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-xc/This-Week-in-W-Cross-Country.html
new roster is also up.. although nearly everbody is one year younger than the website posts them as(eg. Ahmed and Connor are JRs not SRs)
Saw that. Sam Hacker is also listed as a Soph not an incoming freshman.
The men are loaded 1-5, but after that I'm not sure who can close the gap. The have that next tier of 6-10 in Shields, Brill, Hatz, Brice, and Finnerty (finally healthy for XC?) who are pretty close to one another. As long as 1-5 stays healthy they have a shot at an NCAA title.
Wallace is an interesting recruit who finished runner up to Wills at the Ohio XC champs last fall. Same with Kaddatz who broke 4:10 in the 1600 and ran 50th at NXN. I doubt either one will not redshirt though with all of the talent up front.
i've seen finnerty around with a big boot on. not sure he's healthy
I would imagine that is why they're running the IL meet. 5-7 spots on the travel squad could be up for grabs.
Who are Wisconsin's freshman, and what are their prs and accomplishments?
4:01/1:47(?) kid from just to the south is probably the biggest news. He got a LOT better during the spring. He is a BIG kid, so I do not know how he will do in Cross, but given the rate at which he improved in the spring (still 10k at Nationals would be awfully long).
Hacker (son of Tim) is a walk-on with a good pedigree and fits in with the team very well.
There is a very low-key race on Friday afternoon (~5-6), but it will be hard to learn too much (Edgewood, Marquette, I think). 6k for the men, 5k for the women.
I do not ask 'inside info' questions so I suppose that I do not know as much as I could.
The men certainly will have the spotlight on them. However, a bunch of other top teams return almost everyone and OSU had a strong (27th?) transfer to add to the mix, Indiana loses no one and the guys who were good shorter are getting stronger and able to do well over a longer distance, Stanford, etc. etc.
Sick field for the home opener. 2/3 of the preseason top 30 in both fields.
That meet is not th3e home opener; the opener is the low-key meet on Friday, the big Invite is five weeks later. At first the 2/3 confused be until I realized what was meant; 19 or 30 for the men (63%) and 18 for the women, 60%.
Wisco Fan wrote:
Sick field for the home opener. 2/3 of the preseason top 30 in both fields.
http://www.uwbadgers.com/blog/2011/09/rankings-show-loaded-field-for-wisconsin-adidas-invitational.html
There is an 11am game on Saturday against Indiana. I suspect that the game might have played a role in selecting the date and time because teams can come in on Thursday without any problem getting rooms and depart later in the day, either by ground or air. And, maybe it was so some teams could run here and then do PreNats. [ ;>) ]
You're right. I was counting the first meet as a scrimmage.
Nice profile of the team in Varsity.
The meet was held on a glorious afternoon. Marquette wins 26-29, although some placing freshman (Sam Hacker) ran unattached and did not score.
The race went out at a modest pace and then picked up a little in the latter part, as differences in conditioning showed up after a while. Shields had to overtake the leading Marquette runner(s?) to finish first and I think Hatz, Van Voorhis and Hacker all push toward the lead group at the end.
Next meet is the preview of the Big Ten course at Illinois
1 1 1494 Andrew Shields SO Wisconsin 18:20.5 3:42
2 2 1472 Blake Johnson SR Marquette 18:21.0 3:42
3 3 1467 Peter Bolgert SR Marquette 18:24.6 3:43
4 4 1491 Alex Hatz FR Wisconsin 18:28.5 3:43
5 474 Michael Van Voorhis WI Track Club 18:29.7 3:44
6 1483 Sam Hacker UNA-Wisconsin 18:33.8 3:45
7 5 1466 Spencer Agnew SO Marquette 18:36.7 3:45
8 6 1468 Connor Callahan JR Marquette 18:37.4 3:45
9 7 1488 Neal Berman SO Wisconsin 18:38.7 3:46
10 8 1490 Jake Erschen FR Wisconsin 18:38.9 3:46
11 9 1493 Donald (dart) Schwade SO Wisconsin 18:41.8 3:46
12 10 1475 Patrick Maag JR Marquette 18:43.7 3:47
13 1485 Zach Mellon UNA-Wisconsin 18:45.8 3:47
14 11 1471 Jack Hackett JR Marquette 18:58.6 3:50
15 12 1470 Anthony Gedwill JR Marquette 19:00.8 3:50
16 1484 Connor Kaddatz UNA-Wisconsin 19:04.4 3:51
17 1487 Jack Stapleton UNA-Wisconsin 19:06.2 3:51
18 13 1492 Matt McKenna FR Wisconsin 19:22.7 3:54
Is Van Voorhis trying to walk on to the team? He beat quite a few of the UW runners.
I saw Comfort ran unattached for 5th in women's race. Is she hurt or red shirting?
hannah knurr is a recent walk-on from the WTC. looks like a good place to develop talent