Hats off the Amos Sang (Abilene Christian), who reminds everyone that ACU is a D2 distance force. And one wonders if the loss will inspire hard-to-beat Daniel Kirwa (Harding).
Queens' Tanya Zeferjahn's and Megan Nedlo's 1-3 had to be a popular finish. Congrats to all.
Heats: Few surprises there, although I was bummed to see late qualifier Carl Arnold III (Metro State) not make it through the 1,500 round.
Precious little from the local media (excepting a mention of Zeferjahn's win), but the Charlotte Observer had this nice photo gallery.
The Abilene Christian sports info folks called Sang's win an "upset," (I'll buy that), and labelled him "favorite" in the 5,000. If the 10k is any indication, they know more than I about that 5k field!
weird heats in the men's steeple, it's rare to see a fast heat first, in which all 8 runners qualified, followed by a slower second heat, in which just the 4 auto qualifiers went through. i guess all the second heat guys trusted their kick.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that Nedlo got second, Porter did. And those steeple heats were interesting due to how fast they were. Another interesting thing that I noticed was that the first heat in the men's steeple is that no one in the first heat bombed while three in the second heat did.
ReplyDeletewhoops, 1-3 in the 10k for queens. close finish!
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