Official 2017 D3 Cross Country Thread

d3forthewin wrote:

Stoutahhhhhh wrote:

Stout will step up and finish top 10 at Nationals. They have been building a great team there. Every year they have one of the best recruiting classes in the WIAC. This will be the year they step up.

They didn't even qualify as a team to XC Nationals last year and are hanging onto to Thorson's legacy. Kathleen Thorn was their last hope for the women.

You mean Tim Nelson? They had a couple other studs too in the past five years. Good program; odd coach but does a good job.

Ok I over hyped them by one place ...I said top ten they came in 11th wow..I was way off..Top 5 maybe a bit more of a stretch but I think if CNUs Reid and Lapointe have the kind of a day I know thats in them, a top 5 finish is certainly a possibility..and by the way they got a heck of a coach in Sarah Lagasse from Williams..

DIII Guy wrote:

Ok I over hyped them by one place ...I said top ten they came in 11th wow..I was way off..Top 5 maybe a bit more of a stretch but I think if CNUs Reid and Lapointe have the kind of a day I know thats in them, a top 5 finish is certainly a possibility..and by the way they got a heck of a coach in Sarah Lagasse from Williams..

who?

DIII Guy wrote:

..and by the way they got a heck of a coach in Sarah Lagasse from Williams..

Can confirm. I'm not going to speculate on where CNU finishes this fall, but Sarah is an awesome coach and they're very lucky to have her.

Willy Boy wrote:

DIII Guy wrote:

..and by the way they got a heck of a coach in Sarah Lagasse from Williams..

Can confirm. I'm not going to speculate on where CNU finishes this fall, but Sarah is an awesome coach and they're very lucky to have her.

Pick a damn side Willy.

d3forthewin wrote:

howdy dowdy wrote:

Sam Pinkowski (1:56/4:16/9:07) going to Wartburg.

Thought Sam Pinkowski was going to the Badgers? He was in talks in March at least

He's not on UW's 2017 roster. Good for that kid if he's actually going to Wartburg. Running for the Badgers would be really tough.

Just a few weeks away boys

Patel for the win, you heard it here first

NCCCCC wrote:

Patel for the win, you heard it here first

Word is he has been putting in mega mileage!! 150 miles a week!

If that's true then wow, just thinking about doing that many miles makes my legs hurt

Rankings are out, thoughts?

Rankrankrank wrote:

Rankings are out, thoughts?

Link, please.

Rankrankrank wrote:

Rankings are out, thoughts?

Way too difficult to sift through everything since we have no results to work with yet and its all hearsay in terms of fitness (track times don't really provide much indication either). However, I feel that having Geneseo State at #2 to start is a bit of an over-ranking. While they do return IGC and 4 of the 7 from last year, I just feel that other teams return more/ better individuals and just thought that they would be ranked lower. None of this matters anyways, pre-season rankings are trash.

First big race of the year looks to be tomorrow between Loras and North Central, but NCC as another meet listed tomorrow as well. Does anyone know where their varsity is racing?

Any meet on September 1 is not a "big meet," regardless of who's competing.

Elmhurst wrote:

First big race of the year looks to be tomorrow between Loras and North Central, but NCC as another meet listed tomorrow as well. Does anyone know where their varsity is racing?

If you have looked at the schedule I am sure you noticed the second meet is at Principia who happens to be hosting nationals this year and the official pre-nationals meet is not on their schedule. This would lead one to conclude it is their top guys traveling to Principia. Also no one outside of their top 10-15 ever get to travel.

LOL Elmhurt invitational "big race"...

They all traveled to your mom's house last night lolz