U of Pitt - best runnner on club team

He probably would rather win road race money than be on the team.

Maybe he is not NCAA eligible.

That's a downhill race (Great Race). Might be worth a high 31:00 for 10K which is still very solid.

He would be top 5, definitely not #1 or #2

Yeah it says he's 23. Did her un in the past for the team? What does it take to make their team?

He ran a faster 8k than all of them on a much slower course than lehigh

Off direct athletics. He doesn't have any team affiliations on there.

Trent Binford-Walsh

Class: 2012

Men's Track & Field Summary:

Meet Results

Date Meet Event Prelim/Final Time/Mark

04/14/12 Bison Outdoor Classic 2012 5,000m F 14:53.03

03/31/12 W&J Invitational 5,000m F 14:54.70

He should come roll with me and my boys on the South Side.

Run up PJ McArdle with us.

Teach him something about running and toughness.

Pitt is a track focused team. Most of the guys on the xc team are middle distance guys.

I think he's a grad student at Pitt. He graduated HS in 2007, so if he was on a team his freshman year of college and went to Pitt for grad school, then he's out of eligibility as last year would have been his 5th year. That being said, he still is probably faster than anyone currently on Pitt's team.

Even if he was eligible, it may be more enjoyable to run road races than have to make the time commitment to a division I team which (no offense to Pitt) is not that good. Also, there isn't any money at the great race, but they do give the winner a bottle of champagne and a forged ice bucket with the city skyline on it....both pretty awesome prizes if you ask me, any road race that encourages partying is fine in my book.

Article says 23 year old senior, dawg. And he didn't run for pitt, he's just a boss.

He briefly ran at Lewis & Clark College in 2007

Great Racer wrote:

I think he's a grad student at Pitt. He graduated HS in 2007, so if he was on a team his freshman year of college and went to Pitt for grad school, then he's out of eligibility as last year would have been his 5th year. That being said, he still is probably faster than anyone currently on Pitt's team.

Even if he was eligible, it may be more enjoyable to run road races than have to make the time commitment to a division I team which (no offense to Pitt) is not that good. Also, there isn't any money at the great race, but they do give the winner a bottle of champagne and a forged ice bucket with the city skyline on it....both pretty awesome prizes if you ask me, any road race that encourages partying is fine in my book.

Out of curiosity, if your in college/grad school for 5+ years and never participated in athletics at any point do you still have eligibility?

as'pfksdgjife wrote:

He briefly ran at Lewis & Clark College in 2007

This is what I was referring to when I said he already ran for a team. I think that once you start college, that 5 year clock starts ticking.

Either way, I don't see why he would want to run for the 3rd best college xc team in Pittsburgh.

He is a 5th year senior at Pitt. He spent 5 shitty semesters at Lewis & Clark and is finishing up his last 5 at Pitt. He also took a year off of school so wouln't be eligible to compete with the school team this year. End of thread.

This thread has to be started by that guy.

LM wrote:

Out of curiosity, if your in college/grad school for 5+ years and never participated in athletics at any point do you still have eligibility?

DI: No.

DII: Not sure

DIII: No (unless you were not a full time student for one or more of the semesters that you were in school).

NAIA: No idea. Do they have eligibility requirements?

XC loving it wrote:

That's a downhill race (Great Race). Might be worth a high 31:00 for 10K which is still very solid.

The course is SEVERELY downhill overall. It does have some challenging uphill, too. I'd say the downhill nature makes it 45-60s fast for someone running sub-31.

I hear that Pitt is looking for a new cross country coach, how do they do it?

Long live the Schwartz!