Who do you think were the biggest surprises? Looking at the men:
In the top 10, Pierce Murphy in 3rd was quite a run but I'm voting for Jonathan Green of Gtown in 5th. Ran 4:15, 8:08 and 14:02 last year and now he's 5th at NCAAs? Serioiusly?!
Who do you think were the biggest surprises? Looking at the men:
In the top 10, Pierce Murphy in 3rd was quite a run but I'm voting for Jonathan Green of Gtown in 5th. Ran 4:15, 8:08 and 14:02 last year and now he's 5th at NCAAs? Serioiusly?!
Seconding Jonathan Green and the Gtown men as whole. The men got top 10 as a team in their first year under Mike Smith, who had been exclusively coaching the women until this year.
wejo wrote:
Who do you think were the biggest surprises? Looking at the men:
In the top 10, Pierce Murphy in 3rd was quite a run but I'm voting for Jonathan Green of Gtown in 5th. Ran 4:15, 8:08 and 14:02 last year and now he's 5th at NCAAs? Serioiusly?!
At first I did not notice "positive" so I will refrain from mentioning Texas.
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Pollly P wrote:
wejo wrote:Who do you think were the biggest surprises? Looking at the men:
In the top 10, Pierce Murphy in 3rd was quite a run but I'm voting for Jonathan Green of Gtown in 5th. Ran 4:15, 8:08 and 14:02 last year and now he's 5th at NCAAs? Serioiusly?!
At first I did not notice "positive" so I will refrain from mentioning Texas.
Got to separate the negative and positive energy. Separate thread for who bombed the biggest here:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6867503I already mentioned Greene in the live thread; 4:24/9:21 a year and a half ago to 5th. Ridiculous. Aerobic monster.
Saw this in another thread by username VEGA Intl and thought it should go here:
"This has to be the performance of the race:
9 Brenna Peloquin FR - Boise State 20:04.3
I follow WA HS XC loosley and knew of her brother. Looking at her profile, she was a solid 4:50/10:30/18min HS runner last year. Only notable post-season HS meet was NXN Nats and she took 50th. Lands a scholarship at BSU and goes from:
27th last month at Wisco
to
8th at Mountain West
to
9th at NCAA???
I can't imagine a 4:15/9:05 guy walkinginto the top-10 like this as a freshman. Ostrander's performance comes expected; this was 100% darkhorse."
Two Summit League All-Americans, both from SDSU:
Trent Lusignan and Joel Reichow. Potentially the worst track PRs in the top 75.
Peloquin and Buchalski.
But for me biggest surprise was Seidel winning when Ostrander was so dominant all year.
Peloquin was also 4th at West Regionals against a stacked field. She won the Washington 4A two mile as a junior and had several other high finishes in the mile/2 mile throughout her high school career, but she was not heavily recruited.
NHHS wrote:
Peloquin was also 4th at West Regionals against a stacked field. She won the Washington 4A two mile as a junior and had several other high finishes in the mile/2 mile throughout her high school career, but she was not heavily recruited.
I picked Peloquin in the contest, because had a feeling from the 4th place.
Unfortunately, the #117 finisher (for the OTHER thread) cancels out this semi longshot with penalty points?
Oregon has to be very pleased with their day on both sides
top 20 finishers wrote:
NHHS wrote:Peloquin was also 4th at West Regionals against a stacked field. She won the Washington 4A two mile as a junior and had several other high finishes in the mile/2 mile throughout her high school career, but she was not heavily recruited.
I picked Peloquin in the contest, because had a feeling from the 4th place.
Unfortunately, the #117 finisher (for the OTHER thread) cancels out this semi longshot with penalty points?
Additionally, the most points you can lose on any one pick is limited to 10. So if someone drops out or runs really horribly, your losses will be capped at 10 points on them.
Phew. Thought I would lose -113 or so points! Thanks for that rule!
Hassan Omar in 27th place.
Rojo - How about Jim Rosa in 6th??? Did anyone see a race like that coming for him given his season?
Great runs from Erik Peterson, Jefferson Abbey, and Tommy Awad in 12, 13, 14th positions, respectively. 3 great runners that are often overlooked and nobody gives any hype.
I thought several freshman ran very impressive races - Fisher (17th), Dressel (26th), Tanner Anderson (56th), Elijah Armstrong (70th) all in the top 100 as well as Maton (85th - died a bit).
Outstanding finishes from Jack Bruce of Arkansas and Ben Saarel in the last 2k --- passing a combined 41 people --- to garner top 40 finishes.
Jack Bruce with PBs of
3:50 (1500m)
4:13 (mile)
8:22 (3000m)
Finished 23rd...
Only Ches and Murphy closed their last 2k faster than him.
Vvgyvgyvgyvyg wrote:
Jack Bruce with PBs of
3:50 (1500m)
4:13 (mile)
8:22 (3000m)
Finished 23rd...
Only Ches and Murphy closed their last 2k faster than him.
In my mind, Jack Bruce is the most unexpected guy to crack the top 25.
What's interesting is that he finished one spot behind Curtin. Curtin is the pre race "favorite" who performed the worse.
Pretty sure that these 2 guys had quite different emotions as they were crossing the finish line together.
Jack Bruce really stepped up, the bass work he did all summer with Eric and Ginger paid off!
Jack's mile time would have ranked him 80th on the HS list last year (but obviously he was a college freshman)... Big, big surprise...
Cream Of The Crop wrote:
Jack Bruce really stepped up, the bass work he did all summer with Eric and Ginger paid off!
Eric and Ginger are the drummer and lead vocalist, I presume?