July 19, 2010

NCAA's Cragg betters odds of Adams State three-peat

An NCAA appeals committee granted Luke Cragg (Adams State) an extra year's eligibility.
Cragg petitioned the NCAA Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement, which recognized injuries in 2006 cross country and 2008 outdoor track seasons. He also redshirted in 2005-6, obstensibly while at Leeds University (England) in his hometown. Cragg will get a season of cross and outdoors, but not indoors.
For a team greatly depleted by the loss of last year's top three (Aaron Braun, Brian Medigovich and Reuben Mwei), it is a huge gain. Cragg was 11th in Evansville.
Although Adams State returns Anthony Gauthier (10th in Evansville), Nate Sellers (19th), middle-distance stud Andrew Graham and Edwin Cruz (5,000 and 10,000 outdoors qualifier), I don't expect 23 points in Louisville this fall.

9 comments:

  1. Thats the nail in the coffin for a challenge from any other team. 13.54 / 29.10 this past track season and he always brings his A game at xc nationals.

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  2. this kids training hard..check out his training log http://www.eightlane.com/generator.php?search=Training%20Log&id=1359

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  3. If you go to that website, www.eightlane.com and go to training and sort by user (Luke's is L.C) you can see his training logs from the past 3 years. It gives a great insight into what Adams State actually do and you get a great account of the good times and the bad.

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  4. Adams will be strong this year, hard to beat. Western Might put up a fight, a kitten fighting a bit pull but still a fight. Mines looks like it will be a better contender than Western this year.

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  5. you mean a pit bull lol

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  6. what about the rumours of two very fast 1500 runners (3:36 and 3:38) going to Adams this year?

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  8. What about Gauthier? I heard he might be done and back in France. Are you sure he's returning?

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