Ever heard of Dean Crowe (Boston U. and NZ)?

Kim Smith won 3k & 5k indoors and 5k outdoors for Providence.

If you want to go all the way back to March of 2019, Geordie Beamish won the indoor mile for Northern Arizona.

Old school guy wrote:

If you want to go all the way back to March of 2019, Geordie Beamish won the indoor mile for Northern Arizona.

Oh, so you are mocking me now. So you have me at the level of a bit of a village idiot. Now that may not be what you're saying, probably isn't, but that is what is coming through loud and clear.

Nick Willis, indoor mile, 2005. Michigan.

BU actually went 1-2 in the 5000 that year with Are Nakim claiming the runner up position.

Old school guy wrote:

If you want to go all the way back to March of 2019, Geordie Beamish won the indoor mile for Northern Arizona.

Too far back - no one cares about that era.

Lucy Van Dalen in the mile in 2011 or 2012

fethi wrote:

Old school guy wrote:

If you want to go all the way back to March of 2019, Geordie Beamish won the indoor mile for Northern Arizona.

Oh, so you are mocking me now. So you have me at the level of a bit of a village idiot. Now that may not be what you're saying, probably isn't, but that is what is coming through loud and clear.

Both of these had me laughing pretty hard, well done.

Michael Aish won a couple of D2 XCs.

I was at BU the year after Crowe won. Bruce Lehane allowed me to walk onto the team. We would do 800 repeats in Franklin Park, down the hill on grass, turnaround, and run back up for a two minute rest. I think we were doing 2:20 to 2:15 for 10 repeats. Bruce would clap his hands and gently say, "Okay, go on, next."

There was a rather snooty guy named John Adams, I believe, who ran around 4:10. There was another New Zealander named Callum who ran low 14:00s, and there was a German 800 runner who was the most physically ripped man I ever met. He was around 1:46 low, if I remember correctly. I always wondered what happened to these guys.

I will hand it to Bruce for letting me run. Some of my fondest memories are running indoor at Yale and Harvard, and of course on the old board oval at the BU armory. I loved how it pounded. I was amazed to watch my first 13:30 run at Harvard's indoor facility. I loved running along the Charles, doing 200s in a hurricane downpour (Hugo), and running back from Boston College for a long run. We also did some fine long intervals at Jamaica Pond if I recall. The 5-miler in Cambridge was a blast and so was counting smoots across the bridge to MIT in a cold Atlantic winter wind. Good times.

Sorry about the snooty comment. We were all kids. I probably had a chip on my shoulder too. I'm sure everyone turned out okay in the end.

Was Jerry Lawson on that same team with Crowe and Nakkim. Dave Vona?

Callum Henderson

The German was Alexander Adam

Bruce Lehane was one of the most underrated coaches in America. Yes, he had great foreign talent from the pipeline Dave Hemery established when he was the head coach there but he knew as much as anyone about coaching talent and walk-ons.

He was a great man. I miss him.

Jerry was on the team for a year, then he disapeared (academics, I think). He became a very good marathon runner (ran 2.10) after BU. I think now is managing a sporting goods store in NY. He was a great guy and had some great thoughts on life and running.

I really miss Bruce. Best coach I ever had and a great person at the same time. I developed both as a runner and as a human being.

Dave Vona was a couple of years before Jerry. Dave was a senior my Freshman year (1983). We had a great team and some good runners (Daryl Simoneau, Pat Gillooly, Paul Partridge, Russel Warren, Are Nakkim, Dean Crowe, Alan Stockdale, Tone DaRocha, Clive Tulloh), all in the span of a few years. The years between 1987 and 1990, there also came in a few more good runners.

Bruce was a good guy. He used to let us high school kids use the old BU track during tough winters. Always had some words of encouragement.