Thomas Curtin Va Tech runs 13:38.56 WOW!!!!!

Senior coming off a redshirt year, improving his PR 20 seconds. Good progression.

Mark Parrish with a school record!

GO GATORS

(Clark and Garcia ran pretty well too)

Curtin ran 7:56.10 on a flat track a few weeks ago (#2 in NCAA after conversion to 7:50) so we knew he was in shape. He's now #2 in the 3k and 5k for NCAA.

Here are the results:

Event 18 Men 5000 Meter Run

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Section 3 @ 1:30pm

Section 1 @ 6:15pm

Section 2 @ 7:15pm

Lied Center: $ 13:37.42 2/14/2014 Reed Connor, Wisconsin

Classic: # 13:37.42 2/14/2014 Reed Connor, Wisconsin

Name Year School Finals H#

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Finals

1 Thomas Curtin JR Virginia Tech 13:38.56 1

2 Reed Connor Unattached 13:39.75 1

3 Mark Parrish SR Florida 13:41.87 1

4 Kevin Lewis SR Iowa 13:43.70 1

5 Lex Williams Brooks 13:44.60 1

6 Maverick Darling Saucony 13:44.91 1

7 Shaun Thompson SR Duke 13:47.22 1

8 Marc Scott SO Tulsa 13:47.96 1

9 John Mascari JR Indiana State 13:54.88 1

10 Matt Cleaver adidas/Rogue AC 13:56.24 1

11 Ian Barnett JR Illinois 13:56.80 1

12 Thomas Madden SO Virginia 13:57.01 1

13 Jacob Morgan JR Kansas 13:57.08 1

14 Michael Clevenger SO Notre Dame 13:59.91 1

15 Jimmy Clark JR Florida 14:04.53 1

16 Edwin Kibichiy SO Louisville 14:04.78 1

17 Jannis Topfer SR Illinois 14:08.94 1

18 Jordan Mann SR Brown 14:10.43 1

19 Adam Zutz JR Minnesota 14:11.14 2

20 Stuart Robertson SO Virginia Tech 14:12.15 2

21 Tony Smoragiewicz SO Michigan 14:13.02 2

22 Brent Demarest FR Virginia 14:14.74 2

23 Eddie Garcia JR Florida 14:14.84 2

24 Andrew Kowalsky JR Iona 14:16.59 2

25 Josh Brickell SO Furman 14:17.35 2

26 August Pappas JR Michigan 14:17.48 2

27 Aaron Templeton FR Furman 14:18.34 2

28 Matt McClintock JR Purdue 14:20.08 1

29 Nicholas Posada JR Michigan 14:21.18 2

30 Brandon Allen SO Iona 14:21.35 2

31 Caleb Kerr JR Purdue 14:22.73 2

32 Aaron Baumgarten FR Michigan 14:24.57 2

33 Evan Landes JR Kansas 14:26.82 2

34 Andrew Tario SO Iona 14:30.40 3

35 Ernest Kibet JR Louisville 14:30.57 1

36 Ryan Kromer FR Wisconsin 14:31.77 2

37 Andrew Gaiser FR Virginia Tech 14:33.35 2

38 Tyler Byrne SR Northern Arizona 14:34.27 2

39 Dylan Morin JR Wyoming 14:36.09 3

40 Phillip Primeaux SR LSU 14:36.26 3

41 Tate Schienbein JR Purdue 14:36.94 3

42 Tristan Selby SR Indiana State 14:37.86 2

43 Mike O'Dowd SR Iona 14:38.31 2

44 Johannes Motschmann FR Iona 14:39.06 3

45 Levi Taylor SO Indiana State 14:41.50 3

46 Chris Melgares FR Kansas 14:42.97 3

47 Joe Harter FR Nebraska 14:46.12 3

48 Mac Reynolds SO Florida 14:48.57 3

49 Taylor Soltys SO Iowa 14:48.86 3

50 Evans Tuitoek JR Texas Tech 14:51.24 2

51 Elliot Clemente JR Florida 14:51.43 3

52 Jonah Heng SO Nebraska 14:54.15 3

53 Ben Anderson SO Iowa 14:57.24 3

54 Alex Carter FR Iona 15:13.22 3

55 Alec Sery FR Nebraska 15:16.38 3

56 DC Lipani FR LSU 15:16.41 3

57 Austin Post FR Nebraska 15:18.74 3

58 Pat Letz FR Nebraska 15:20.15 3

59 Austin Benoit FR Michigan 15:20.56 3

60 Jack McDonald FR Kansas 15:57.78 3

-- Andy Adamovics SO Iona DNF 3

-- Anthony Gregorio SO Iowa DNF 3

-- James Leakos Boston Athletic DNF 1

We know that he has the endurance to run with the big boys but does he have the speed to win a championship race.

Leakos DNF? No. F*cking. Way.

I've said this before and I will say it again - Ben Thomas is one of the better coaches in the NCAA. He does it with diamonds in the rough time and time again. Great job Ben! People that know understand that you are way better than the same old tired names mentioned on here year after year that may be better salesman but not a better coach.

Thomas does do a very good job on the track but Va Tech grossly under achieves in the fall...

He is in a similar situation that Gibby was in several years ago at W&M - he is getting a high percentage of the in-state talent without even really trying because W&M now blows and UVa again has decided to basically ignore anything in-state but blue-chippers.

I did not see the race, but he won it and it was close. I'm gonna guess he outkicked the competition. He also an ACC champ. A kick is something they are clearly working on consistently at VT as all their runners seem to close reasonably well. I am not sure they are underperforming in Cross. The SouthEast Region is pretty tough and usually gets 4 teams to NCAA. 4mo ago, they were 6th in the region (Top 4 went to NCAAs) without Curtin running. Regional 2011-4th, 2012-4th (22nd NCAA, 2nd runner dropped out with injury), 2013-5th, 2014-6th. Not so bad.

ethiopianrunning wrote:

We know that he has the endurance to run with the big boys but does he have the speed to win a championship race.