Except for the Collegiate (NCAA) and High School (NXN & FootLocker) Championship races, the 2015 Cross Country season is done!
As for Road races, today's USATF 12K (See below!) ended the US Road circuit, with only the Fukuoka Marathon featured in the next 46 days of the year!
But hold on to your hats, folks, because (as I've repeatedly said!) the 2015-2016 INdoor Season is coming!
I'll have a bit to say on that later, but let's see how the Collegiates did at their Regionals.
Northeast Regional
Syracuse dominated, beating Iona, 29 to 40 in the Men's division.
Justyn Knight won in 30:28.9, with Colin Benner 2nd less than a second behind.
The Women's team winner was Providence, with 49 points.
Syracuse was 2nd with 92.
Dana Giordano won over Sarah Collins, 20:25.7 to 20:29.0
Mid-Atlantic Regional
Georgetown won for the Men.
Patrick Tiernan won by 26 seconds over Jonathon Green, his time being 30:15.8.
Jordan Williamz finished 9th, time of 31:02.2.
Penn State won the Women's title with 60 points.
Blanca Fernandez won, time of 20:52.0.
Tessa Barrett was 4th, about 10 seconds back.
Mid-West Regional
Oklahoma State won both divisions, taking the Men's with 59 points, and the Women's with 51.
Marc Scott beat Jacob Burcham, 29:37.1 to 29:38.6.
Cerake Geberkidane was 3rd in 29:50.4.
Steepler Erin Teschuk won, time of 20:07.7.
Alyssa Schnadie was 2nd, about 5 seconds behind.
South Central Regional
One team again dominated, here being Arkansas.
They scored 51 in the Men's, and 40 in the Women's.
Brian Barraza ran 30:07.3 for the Men.
Dominique Scott easily beat Maggie Montoya, 19:35.3 to 19:50.5.
Southeast Regional
Thomas Curtin won the Men's race in 29:07.9.
Shaun Thompson ran 29:11.6 in second.
Louisville beat Virginia, 77 to 96 points.
Virginia took the Women's team title.
Letitia Saayman beat Ednah Kiplagat (NOT Edna Kiplagat!!) by 3+ seconds, 20:25.1 to 20:28.3.
Caroline Alcorta finished 14th in 21:11.4.
In 18th was early season sensation Ryen Frazier, who ran 21:22.3.
South Regional
Florida State scored 58 points to take the Men's title.
Antibahs Kosgei won the Individual race in 30:25.66.
Vanderbilt won the Women's team title with 65 points.
Chelsea Blaase won in 20:02.29.
Lipscomb--without Kayla Montgomery!--finished 8th of 30 teams!
Mountain Regional
Colorado took both team battles!
The Men scored 67 points.
It was a close race, with Jonah Koech's 29:57.50 just edging Anthony Rotich's 29:57.59.
John Dressel finished ahead of Ben Saarel, 19th to 21st, their times a second on either side of 30:30!
New Mexico was nipped by Colorado on the Women's side, 49 to 50 points!
Hannah Everson won by 10 seconds over Kaitlyn Benner, 20:45.42 to 20:55.86.
Erin Clark was a second behind Benner.
Courtney Frerichs took 10th in 21:15.35.
West Regional
Washington won the Men 's title with 63 points, 20 less than Stanford scored, with Oregon scoring 99 in 3rd.
Who else but Ed Cheserek won the Individual race, timed in 30:43.2.
John Whalan took second, over 11 seconds behind!
Stanford's Rosa twins finished 6th (Jim) and 8th (Joe), with teammate Sean McGorty between them!
Another tight team battle saw Oregon's Women winning over Boise State, 79 to 80!
Washington and Stanford followed in 105 and 121 points.
(Stanford didn't run either Aisling Cuffe or Elise Cranny!)
Allie Ostrander solidified her favorite's role (or at least CO-favorite with Dominique Scott!!) for the Big Show, winning by almost 22 full seconds over Waverly Neer's 20:32.2.
Maddie Meyers finished 3rd another 5 seconds behind Neer.
(Sarah Baxter did NOT run for Oregon, even though she was listed as a starter. If I find out differently, I'll let you know!)
So, how does the NCAA race look?
For the Men, I'd go with Cheserek, even though he's rarely raced, and then not that fast.
Thomas Curtin and Justyn Knight appear to be podium contenders.
I'm picking Allie Ostrander to win the Women's race, but she'll have to be in top shape to beat Dom Scott--and Aisling Cuffe, if she's healthy!!
Molly Huddle squashed her (so called) competition in today's USATF 12K.
She ran her slowest race yet (of the 3 she's run), although this was a different course than the last 2 years, timing out in 38:36.
Sara Hall surprised in 2nd, but finished 29 seconds behind Molly!
Alisha Williams, Kim Conley, and Brianne Nelson filled the next 3 places.
The Men's race was a squeaker for Sam Chelanga, as he just nipped Tyler Pennel.
Their times don't reflect how close they were, as Chelanga's time of 34:35 supposedly beat Pennel by two seconds!
It was more like two-TENTHS of a second!!
Shadrack Kipchirchir, Jim Spisak, and Brian Shrader followed in 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
Kara Goucher easily won the Big Sur Half-Marathon, running a solid 1:11:13.
If she runs anywhere near that kind of race in the Trials Marathon, she'll make the team for Rio!
There were a few notable announcements of HS'ers intentions to run Collegiately!
At least one of them was somewhat surprising, as I thought Noah Lyles was a good possibility to choose the "going Pro" route!
But Noah (AND brother Josephus) said he's (THEY!) going to run for Florida!
Oregon's distance legacy will remain strong, as THREE solid guys said they're going to be Ducks!
They are Levi Thomet, Drew Hunter, and Austin Tamagno!
Also, Khalifa St Fort said she's going to be a UCLA Bruin!
Well, friends, INdoor Track and Field is just FIVE DAYS away!!
(Although the first POSSIBLY good meet is 6 days away, that being the JDL All-Comers meet on the 21st!)
I don't have any names, but it SEEMS like this meet will have a few good people.
Which means we MIGHT see more than just 1 list-worthy mark--like we did last year (Ryen Frazier's HS 4:44.20 Mile!).
Mo Farah said he won't run in the World Championships--even though his NOP team is right there in the Portland area!
He did say he wants to run a fast 3000 in the Glasgow meet.
(See the schedule I provided in my previous post!)
As everyone on the planet knows by now, Russia has been banned from the Rio Olympics--though this is possibly up for an appeal--or a deal!!
More on all the non-Records & Marks news in future posts!
But in the next week, look for more Preview posts for the INdoor season!
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