However, I think they don't have the horses this year. Maybe in the SEC, but not in the nationals. NC State didn't even run Katelyn Tuohy in this race and won pretty easily. (Equivalent of holding out Molly Seidel her senior year/)
In years past, Iona guys used to get a weird combination of Africans and Irishmen to do very well, including Kip Keino's son. And the great Villanova teams when we were in our 20's all had guys who knew their way around Cork more than the Main Line.
WSU out west here had Henry Rono and several other Kenyans