In reply to: Team 11th over all...10pts shy of top 10. (link) posted by IrishThinclad
Katie Rainsberger is from Colorado Springs. She's a freshman at U of O, finished 4th behind ND's Anna Rohrer and had the race of her life after being sick at regionals (see article from Denver post attached). Erin Clark who was one of Colorado's top runners said the following in a different Post article: “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.”
Colorado had been ranked #1 all year and Oregon was ranked #12, which by winning was the largest rise to the NC by a xcountry team ever. The previous record was set when No. 4 Georgetown won in 2011. Colorado had dominated Oregon at the PAC12 championships this year with 33 points where the Ducks had 88 points and were 4th (also behind Washington and Stanford)). Oregon actually qualified with an at large bid since Stanford and UW were the automatic qualifiers from the West regional. Colorado won the Mountain region to qualify, putting all 5 scorers in the top10.
Crazy result. Very unexpected.
to xfr to ND. #5 Lokedi (Kansas) , #6 Peloquin (BSU), and #11 Receveur (Indiana) were all on teams that didn't qualify. Pair them with Anna and Annie H, also both sophomores and we would have a National Championship in 2 years as I assume they would have to sit out one year). This year those 5 would have scored 59 and would have had less than half the Ducks National Championship score. I am sure all schools try to do things like that but I was just conjecturing.
Still Colorado already has 5 Freshman and Sophomores who scored and helped them get 3rd less than 10 points behind much older Oregon who scored with 3 seniors & 1 junior and Michigan (1 senior and 3 juniors).
By the way does anyone know if Christina Aragon (Freshman from Stanford who ran 38th overall) is ND's Danielle Aragon's younger sister who was 52nd overall. Just curious. S
She was 2nd last year as a freshman to Molly, but red shirted this year due to injury.
I think Boise has a pretty good core for the next 2-3 years.
... dissapointing she didn't choose ND (in that her dad was a sub 4 miler at ND, and her 2 older sister ran/run at ND), but can't really argue that someone made a poor choice choosing Stanford for academics and running.
What happened to ND FR Maryjeanne Gilbert this season (she was 2nd at Foot Locker Nationals last year) - would have thought she'd have made top 7.
ND Men's transfer-outs Clevenger and Ball finished 60th and 81st... of course, no current ND man qualified.