Official NCAA Regional Discussion Thread - Who choked and who was clutch? Let's hear it.

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LetsRun.com wrote:

Regionals are going on. Just as if there is no real good reason to go totally in depth in the coverage of a prelim at a track meet, there isn't all that reason to go in depth about regionals.

What we want you to share are big surprises.

If the #4 seed bombed and goes home, please post it here. If the #48 makes it, post away as well.

So what surprises have there been.

Hmm couple notables out west in the Big Sky.

Aidan REED SUU came in ranked #47 finished to 14th in the 10k.

Theo Quax NAU 3:39 PB didn't make it out of the first round of 1500's unfortunately.

I'll kick this off by looking at the 10,000. First off, congrats to the Wildschutt twins of Coastal Carolina for both making it. But here are the people seeded in the top 12 who didn't make it out of the east.

5 Emmanuel Cheboson SO Louisville 28:42.13A

6 Alfred Chelanga SR Alabama 28:43.71A

7 Kieran Tuntivate JR Harvard 28:45.61A

10 Kevin Salvano SO Notre Dame 28:54.46A

11 Danny Kilrea FR Notre Dame 28:55.25A

And those seeded outside of the top 12 who did make it.

13 Adriaan Wildschutt SO Coastal Carolina 28:57.10A

18 Sean Burke JR Boston College 29:11.68A

21 Brent Demarest SR Virginia 29:17.26A

28 Azaria Kirwa SR Liberty 29:22.05A

31 Ben Veatch SO Indiana 29:26.29A

For the East women, here are those seeded in top 12 who didn't make it.

6 Kathryn Munks JR Penn State 33:22.19A

7 Julia Paternain FR Penn State 33:22.91A

9 Regan Rome SR Providence 33:26.39A

10 Elizabeth Funderburk FR FL State 33:31.05A

12 Elizabeth Funderburk FR FL State 33:31.05A

And those outside of the top 12 who did.

15 Laura Dickinson SO Syracuse 33:37.37A

21 Maddy Denner FR Notre Dame 34:00.45A

24 Samantha Halvorsen SO Wake Forest 34:02.93A

35 Monica Hebner FR Duke 34:20.90A

40 Ivine Chemutai SO Louisville 34:27.39A

There is already a thread that has some 10k discussion, particularily about BYU getting 6 guys through. They had five seeded in the top twelve and I think 10 qualified for regionals. One of those in the top twelve didn't get through, but two seeded outside the top 12 did.

For clutch in the east region, in the women’s 1500, Karisa Nelson was clipped on the heels with about 700 to go and completely face planted. She got up and still closed with 2:16 including the fall and got an auto qualifier. She looks really fit and handled the situation really well.

LetsRun.com wrote:

Regionals are going on. Just as if there is no real good reason to go totally in depth in the coverage of a prelim at a track meet, there isn't all that reason to go in depth about regionals.

What we want you to share are big surprises.

If the #4 seed bombed and goes home, please post it here. If the #48 makes it, post away as well.

So what surprises have there been.

So it makes no sense to cover the Olympic Trials? that's basically just a prelim meet.

Frustrating that once again LetsRun blows off the entire NCAA season.

it's funny, FloTrack and Stride Report seemed to think the prelims mattered.

No one will care about the finals if you don't cover the season.

rojo wrote:

For the East women, here are those seeded in top 12 who didn't make it.

6 Kathryn Munks JR Penn State 33:22.19A

7 Julia Paternain FR Penn State 33:22.91A

9 Regan Rome SR Providence 33:26.39A

10 Elizabeth Funderburk FR FL State 33:31.05A

12 Elizabeth Funderburk FR FL State 33:31.05A

How does one person have 2 entries?

In the West Claire O'Brien from Boise Stare went down hard in the 10k and looked like she got stepped on a few times and missed qualifying by two spots. She had run 32:39 this year and was 12th at nationals last year.

I think she'll get another shot in the 5k where she has run 15:48 this year.

LetsRun.com wrote:

Regionals are going on. Just as if there is no real good reason to go totally in depth in the coverage of a prelim at a track meet, there isn't all that reason to go in depth about regionals.

What we want you to share are big surprises.

Adam Kelly (Princeton) - who was runner up in the WT at 2019 indoors - was first man out in the East Region hammer throw. He was the sixth seed going into Regionals.

Ok, moving to the west. How about some praise for BYU for getting 6 guys in. That deserves its own thread, doesn't it?

Anyways. here are the top 12 seed in the men's 10k that didn't make it.

5 Blaise Ferro JR No. Arizona 28:22.76A

9 Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse JR Portland 28:37.56A

10 Daniel Carney SR BYU 28:49.87A

11 Jack Rowe SR San Francisco 28:50.22A

12 Tibebu Proctor SO Washington 28:54.33A

And those outside of the top 12 that did.

17 Dallin Farnsworth JR BYU 28:56.02A

22 Connor Weaver SO BYU 29:02.66A

31 John Dressel JR Colorado 29:13.35A

33 Hassan Abdi SR OK State 29:13.95A

36 Ryan Forsyth SR Colorado 29:15.58A

Women 10kers that didn't make it out of the West.

7 Anne Frisbie SR IA State 32:58.64A

8 Lauren LaRocco SR Portland 33:06.79A

11 Angie Nickerson SR So. Utah 33:12.87A

12 Hannah Miller JR SMU 33:23.89A

Those that did surprise.

16 Abbie McNulty SR Stanford 33:30.57A

21 Kaitlyn Benner SR Colorado 33:36.38A

33 Tabor Scholl JR Colorado 34:03.73A

36 Weronika Pyzik SR Oregon 34:10.29A

Also, Jada Harris (UMass Amherst) was in a tie for 38th place going into the East Region HJ, and she's going to Austin in a tie for 8th place. She's the sixth woman in school history to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championship.

lazy lazy lazy wrote:

[quote]LetsRun.com wrote:

So it makes no sense to cover the Olympic Trials? that's basically just a prelim meet.

Frustrating that once again LetsRun blows off the entire NCAA season.

it's funny, FloTrack and Stride Report seemed to think the prelims mattered.

No one will care about the finals if you don't cover the season.

1) We are covering it. I'm covering it right here on the messageboard. I thought it deserved more coverage so I created a thread and made it the #1 thing on the messageboard.

2) Don't be a jerk and try to compare the NCAA Olympic Trials to the NCAA regionals.

3) What the hell is the stride report?

4) Flotrack is covering it? Yes because they are broadcasting it and charging you $30 per month recurring to watch it.

Numbers 6 and 9 in the 800 from Iowa did not make it but numbers 22 and 24 did.

rojo wrote:

3) What the hell is the stride report?

A website that predominantly follows college distance running (all levels, both men and women), providing meet previews, meet results, and analysis. They offer their writers pay for their articles. Pretty good analysis at times. They've been around now for a few years.

C/M Runner wrote:

rojo wrote:

3) What the hell is the stride report?

https://www.thestridereport.com/

A website that predominantly follows college distance running (all levels, both men and women), providing meet previews, meet results, and analysis. They offer their writers pay for their articles. Pretty good analysis at times. They've been around now for a few years.

They also generate interest by doing an updated rankings of the top 25 NCAA distance runners regardless of event, a top 25 overall combining all events 800m and above. So you can see how they rank the relative dominance of 800m runners vs 10 runnners etc. An interesting way to generate a storyline to follow throughout the season.

I think LRC is totally missing the boat by doing so many articles on pro running and so few on the NCAA. People want stories they have ties to, and most readers of this site at least went to college and a good percentage ran for a college. Also, it's fun to follow the runners from our home states, see how they are doing in college.

For these reasons, I reluctantly shell out $30 for a month of Flotrack a couple time per year, but wouldn't even consider it for pro track or coverage of protrack outside of the olympics.

Maybe LRC should do a poll to gauge interest between pro and NCAA running. I think the interest is probably close to 50/50 but the coverage seems to be 95/5.

who the hell is stride report?

they are the ones that have complete NCAA qualifiers predictions up from 6 different writers and are tracking the results and comparing each writers predictions with the live results.

The ones that have actually written in-season articles on the NCAA and have updated rankings of the top 25 distance runners.

Meanwhile LRC posts a single thread where the owner implies no one cares about prelims and asks the users to report for him.

Surprise in the men's 800 as last year's NCAA runner-up/top returner Marco Arop of Mississippi State was only 5th in his heat at the East prelims and won't be going to Austin.

Lincoln Shryack speculated on the broadcast that he may have been hurt as he just didn't look as if he had anything left when the top guys began to pull away on the backstretch in his heat.

1 Myles MARSHALL SR Harvard 1:48.23 Q 1 (1) =SB

2 Cooper WILLIAMS JR Indiana 1:48.76 Q 3 (1)

3 Bashir MOSAVEL-LO SO Virginia Tech 1:48.77 Q 3 (2) SB

4 Dejon DEVROE SR Miss State 1:49.08 Q 1 (2)

5 Avery BARTLETT SR Georgia Tech 1:49.39 Q 3 (3)

6 Alek SAUER SR Columbia 1:49.58 Q 2 (1)

7 Abbas ABBKAR JR Savannah State 1:49.70 Q 1 (3)

8 Sean TORPY JR Miami (Ohio) 1:49.72 q 3 (4)

9 Otis JONES SR South Carolina 1:49.77 Q 2 (2)

10 John RIVERA SO Ole Miss 1:49.83 q 1 (4)

11 Miles OWENS SO William and Mary 1:49.84 Q 2 (3)

12 Leon ATKINS JR Buffalo 1:49.87 q 2 (4)

13 Michael TODD SR Liberty 1:49.93 2 (5)

14 Domenic PERRETTA SO Penn State 1:50.13 1 (5)

15 Marco AROP SO Miss State 1:50.59 3 (5)

16 Aaron BENNETT FR Indiana 1:50.61 3 (6)

17 Adam WALLACE JR Indiana 1:50.68 3 (7)

18 Liam PURDY SR American 1:50.92 3 (8)

19 Matt WISNER JR Duke 1:50.93 2 (6)

20 Evans KIBET JR Siena 1:51.87 1 (6)

21 Tim ZEPF SO Dartmouth 1:52.57 1 (7)

22 Griffin RILEY SO Ole Miss 1:52.73 1 (8)

23 Bennett HILLIER JR Georgia Tech 1:52.74 2 (7)

24 Jalen ROYAL FR Indiana 1:54.79 2 (8)

Just saw that Houston got 7 guys to regionals in the 100 meters. Nice representation!

Erika Birk threw down a new NCAA lead in the steeple 9:42.54

Wow, power Mom. I hope Nike is watching.