- Jessica Pixler (Seattle Pacific) proved to be the difference in the distance medley relay. The senior started behind but finished ahead of defending champ Shippensburg and Neely Spence. Pixler will run the mile Saturday; Spence runs the 5,000.
- Aaron Braun showed he's in for a very busy weekend, anchoring Adams State to their first title of what could be many in the DMR. Not far behind was a resurgent Missouri Southern and Brennan Benkert, a pick I certainly missed. My fave -- Metro State -- was third, with defending 800-meter indoor and outdoor champ Anthony Luna opting to run the 400-meter leg.
- Favorites made it through in the mile, including all five Adams State men's entries. Abilene Christian's Amos Sang, notably, did not make the final.
- The men's 800 meter final is a rare occasion where Adams State and St. Augustine's go head-to-head. St. Aug's has six finals Saturday with nine athletes plus a mile relay team. They could theoretically score 90 points (I'm not exactly sure who's through in the 200 yet). Adams has 12 athletes in only three finals and could score 79 points. On Friday, Adams needed to win the DMR and St. Aug's won't be represented in the 60. But the edge appears to be St. Augustine's.
March 12, 2010
ABQ Day 1: Seattle Pacific, Adams State big guns take DMR titles
A few observations from Day 1 of indoor nationals:
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You had asked whether the altitude would benefit adams st. and other altitude schools. Here are the results:
ReplyDelete1 Brian Medigovich SR Adams State 14:28.46 10 1(1)
2 Aaron Braun SR Adams State 14:31.37 8 1(2)
3 Amos Sang JR Abilene Christian 14:31.43 6 1(3)
4 Reuben Mwei SR Adams State 14:32.56 5 1(4)
5 Florian Theophile SR Adams State 14:41.17 4 1(5)
6 Luke Cragg SR Adams State 14:43.03 3 1(6)
7 Ryan McNiff SR Adams State 14:51.76 2 1(7)
8 Glarius Rop FR American Intl 14:54.95 1 1(8)
9 Iain Donnan SR Western State 15:01.43 1(9)
10 Aaron Swift JR Colorado Mines 15:01.75 1(10)
11 Ben Zywicki JR Colorado Mines 15:28.62 1(11)
12 Jordan Welling JR Western Washington 15:46.73
If you can see, everyone in the field either lived at altitude at some point in their lives or currently trains at altitude, except for J.Welling of West Washington.
And conversely, no woman from an altitude school won any distance event.
ReplyDeleteThat and all of the guys that qualified had run their qualifying races at sea level with no altitude conversions. It just so happens that 9 out of the 12 qualifiers come from schools that are at altitude. So it is very likely that some one from altitude will win.
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