Colorado's Erin Clark looks to have a 2009 Jenny Barringeresce race and finished 133rd today. Definitely cost CU a team title...as they still took third only 9 points from first place Oregon.
Hard not to feel bad for Clark as she's a senior and has been their team leader all senior.
Anyone know if she was sick or injured? As CU ever one a women's XC title? It was theirs to win this season.
Either she was sick or more likely.....
She was secretly trained from her days at South Eugene High School to infiltrate Colorado's top 7 her senior year and cost them a championship allowing Oregon to win.
She probably just freaked out but you could be right. This was a bigger fix than the 1919 World Series
Colorado women won in 2000 and in 2004. It's been awhile
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You are right, she got off course looking for a Safe Space.
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For those not around for the 2009 race, here is the summary goo.gl/euqHNl
If she placed down in the field she had an off day. It happens. Team still placed 3rd and that's a great result.
not only did erin clark gave an off day, but so did charlotte prouse of washington who finished around 208th !? I literally don't understand how this happens? She raced well all this season and this is how it ends :/
UW got washed out wrote:
not only did erin clark gave an off day, but so did charlotte prouse of washington who finished around 208th !? I literally don't understand how this happens? She raced well all this season and this is how it ends :/
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UW got washed out wrote:
not only did erin clark gave an off day, but so did charlotte prouse of washington who finished around 208th !? I literally don't understand how this happens? She raced well all this season and this is how it ends :/
sickness? flu?
It just happens. Clark is a great runner, and will be back. Same as Cheserek. Has there ever been a XC runner who didn't have a less than stellar race?
Dan Petty of the Denver Post had a few nice articles on the Buffs that we didn't get up on the front page.
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/19/colorado-cross-country-women-ncaa-championships-2016/
It's got some quotes from Wetmore, who said they didn't get out hard enough, and Clark.
Clark:
“I feel really awful right now because I didn’t do my job for this team today, and I wish I could have,†Clark, a senior from Eugene, Ore., said through tears. “The gun went off, and pretty quickly it went downhill from there. I don’t really know why. Within the first mile, something about my legs, they just felt so heavy.â€