XC West Regional results

Tommy Tuberville wrote:

Puskedra definitely makes it to nationals. First off, his team (Oregon) finished sixth which should get them in (I believe 8 teams from the West made it last year). Should he team for some reason not make it in, he would easily be selected based on his high finish.

4 teams from the west made it last year. Stanford, Oregon, Portland, and California. Very rarely do eight teams from any region make it to nationals, but it has happen. Too bad this is not one of the years, the regions are too evenly matched.

Washington St. Will push Cal Poly into nationals, but California blocks Oregon. Four teams from the west make it. Stanford, Portland, Cal Poly, Washington St.

Go POLY! No blue chips here - all blue collar, with the seventh runner in 45th place. Take that, Pac 12

Blue collar? What's it mean?

SLO's Cal Poly looked awesome. So did SLO's Jordan Hasay. Wow. That was impressive.

J.R. wrote:

Curious Jorge wrote:

How pissed do you think Oregon's guys are that LV quit?

If so, then they weren't the right team for him anyway.

What kind of statement is that. The guy QUIT on his team TWO days before the qualifying meet for nationals and he was a key part of that team. He could have waited two more weeks to leave the school and at least honor the scholarship that he was given. I can't imagine any team not being pissed at this kind of selfishness.

I am not even part of the team and I am pissed. I used to admire Lukas and that admiration is long gone. You run two races, they don't go the way you want and you want to bail on the team two days before the championship season. I can't imagine there is too much love for Lukas right now.

We heard about it two days before. He may have stopped training for them weeks ago. They may have known about it far longer than we did.

Bottom line: We just don't know.

Any chance this was not actually 10000m? Those kind of times on grass are ridiculous. But I would guess Stanford would make an accurate course.

Is it the same course where rupp won in 27:40 a couple years back?

Umm... wrote:

We heard about it two days before. He may have stopped training for them weeks ago. They may have known about it far longer than we did.

Bottom line: We just don't know.

If that was the case, it would make it worse, not better. The bottom line is he took a scholarship from someone else Oregon could have recruited, he committed to the team for this year and he bailed on them, whether it be two days or two weeks before regionals. If he was competing, they most likely would have made it to nationals. The more I think about it, the more I realize what a complete selfish move this was. Despite what a few others seem to believe, he did owe it to his teammates to finish out the season.

ruppmeister wrote:

Is it the same course where rupp won in 27:40 a couple years back?

Yes. It's the exact same course. They left the stakes and flags up since 2008, cut and watered the grass exactly the same and put a climate-controlled bubble over the entire golf course.

86 327 Drew O'Donoghuemcdonal BOISE STATE 31:11 5:01

Drew's last name is a mouthful....