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FLOAWARDS Final List (Nov 30th release)
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Lawi Lalang (Arizona), NCAA Champ  Lalang continued his dominance of the NCAA XC scene in Terre Haute as he made a break around 4k, never looked back and won his first NCAA title by 13 seconds. Lawi ran the second fastest time ever on the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course, a time of 28:44 that is only three seconds off the course record mark set by Sam Chelanga in 2009. Lalang has three more years so challengers best step up their game! Until then, look for this FloRunner of the year to make his mark soon on a track near you... |
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Sheila Reid (Villanova), NCAA Repeat Champ  As if winning one wasn't hard enough, Reid came in the clear favorite and delivered as she took home her second consecutive NCAA Cross Country title and fourth individual NCAA title in the past year. Last fall really catipulted her into a great track season and if it happens that way again Reid will be remembered as one of the best collegiate distance runners in NCAA history. It will be an easy task as there were about eight ladies on her heels over the final 400 meters in Terre Haute. Congrats to Sheila in her last xc race as a Villanova Wildcat. |
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Wisconsin Men - Coach Mick Bryne Its hard to imagine that will all his success over the years that Mick had never won an NCAA title. Without a doubt 2011 was his year and was Wisconsin's year. The Badgers went through ever meet controlled, confident and unified as they solidified a number one ranking going into the NCAA Cross Country Championships and an average spread of 18 seconds between the top five runners. The squad ended the day in Terre Haute with four All-Americans (nearly five) and a 42 point victory over the two-time defend champion Oklahoma State Cowboys. The two teams made the fall exciting to follow and in the end we saw Wisconsin win their fifth NCAA title and first since 2005. The squad will loose two of the top five in Krause and Collins but return three All-Americans including 2012 individual contender, Mo Ahmed. Not a bad group to build around defending a title. |
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Georgetown Women - Coach Chris Miltenburg Through the season its known as FloTeam, but when awarded it's FloCoach and that's exactly what coach Chris Miltenburg deserves. Coming in with a 4th place team from 2010 that returned six runners, the Hoyas were ranked number one in the country through the month of September. After some unexpected injuries and a slow start to team leader Emily Infeld that outlook changed and the Hoyas found themselves looking like an outside shot at a podium finish. However, come regionals the ladies seemed to be peaking right as they tied a top ranked Villanova team and all of a sudden were back in the mix . The team ended up winning the program's first ever NCAA Cross Country title and the impressive thing about it was that it was with a team that had four new faces from the 2010 squad...including three freshmen! As we look to 2012, throw Rachel Schneider and Madeline Chambers back into the mix and all of a sudden the Hoyas have five potential All-Americans to defend their title... |
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Craig Lutz (Texas) - 33rd overall Maybe not the your first choice at the beginning of the year with names like Verzbicas, Moussa and Rosa in the mix, Lutz made a huge mark on the collegiate scene when he finished an unexpected 15th at the Wisconsin Invite back in mid-October. Craig proved to be no fluke as he continue his 2011 tear with top four finishes at both the Big 12 Championships and South Central Regional. He stayed consistent over 10k as he grab an All-American spot and showed us toughest that we have seen in some of the best. Look for Lutz to make a crack at the top ten over the next two years and maybe even more... |
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Waverly Neer (Columbia) - 40th overall Dealing with injury earlier in the season and even as close as six weeks before nationals, it didn't seem like Neer would have a shot to be the top frosh in a strong first year class. Not only did she come back to win the FloFrosh award for 2011, she was also able to grab the last All-American spot at the NCAA Championships. The high school indoor 5k record holder has made a great transition to the collegiate ranks and we look forward to seeing her compete on the track. Being at Columbia, we're sure to see her at the Armory in the not too distant future. |
Congrats Lutz (and Dohner too - last year's Flofrosh)! UT takes the top spot two years in a row!
Congrats C Lutz!
Yes Flotrack--take a look at Freshman Sam McEntee!! He is a super great talent and a top runner for Villanova. All this coming from a guy who never ran XC before.
GONOVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Weird, I never said that someones potential to do well is more important than how they actually perform. Pretty sure i said if she runs well, indicating at the national meet, Washington will win.. Which is the same as saying if Hassay runs well at the National meet she has a shot at the title. Jordan Hassay got her booty kicked at Pac 12s and Flood was instructed not to race regionals to the max if they had the team title locked up which they clearly did and she shut it down with over 2k to go. No one cares who wins west regionals individually. XC is a TEAM sport and Hassay is an individual. She can go and win the individual title all she wants but her team has a 0% chance of winning the team title. Washington on the other hand won Wisconsin Invite and will be on the podium at Nationals if not win it. So no, I will not feel dumb if Hassay wins the individual title.
For FloFrosh, consider Sam McEntee of Villanova: 16th at Mid-Atlantic Regional, Villanova's #3 in the race, and top freshman at the Regional
@Anonymous coward
Clearly you misunderstood. He is saying that Hasay's performance at Pac-12s was not a true indication of her fitness because of her dominant win at Regionals. Do you understand what an aberration is. This is a positive review of Hasay.
what about this curr kid, from butler?
I dont think you give enough credit to BYU and thier team. Not only have they beat standford, Miles Batty has beat Standfords best runner. Also BYU rested two of thier top five at regionals. If they run up to their potential then they could be in the mix to break up OSU and wisconsin.
Men and Women BOTH TEAMS poised to strike at NCAAs! What other program has both teams looking so strong? We will rock you.
How people actually run is more important than how you think they should have run. "A dominant win at the West Regional proved Pac-12's was more an aberration than a true indication of fitness for Hasay." Whoever wrote that is going to feel really stupid if Hasay wins.
((((Dan Knewitz 2 weeks ago
I think the additional 2k will give the other FloRunner contenders a better shot at Lawi. The description of Chris Derrick suggests that his latter portion of the race is a weakness, but at Pac-12s he closed the gap significantly on Lawi's earlier move if I'm not mistaken. Given 2k more, he may be able to catch all the way up)))
DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GOT YOUR INFO ON DERRICK. HE'S ALWAYS BEEN A BEAST THE LAST 2K.
How does Pons and Quinn make the list with a Freshman ahead of them both Regionals?
When I think of NCAA's I think of Oklahoma State and German fernandez Im thinking they will do really good I say first place if it all goes to plan
should have clarified the nova/gtown situation. at nationals a winner would be awarded so we don't like refer to teams tieing. if you use the tie-break rule (comparing head to head match-ups between each scoring runner) nova would be awarded the victory. hope that makes a little more sense
you do realize that nova girls did not actually win the mid Atlantic regional, right?
no love for washington??? COMMON MAN YOU CRAZYY, top 5 in the TOP 14 AT WEST REGIONALS? Led by PAC 12 CHAMP Katie FLOOOOOOD. Washington Takes a close 2nd. Megan Goethals runs well, Washington Wins by 4. BOOM, heard it here first.
no love for washington??? COMMON MAN YOU CRAZYY, top 5 in the TOP 14 AT WEST REGIONALS? Led by PAC 12 CHAMP Katie FLOOOOOOD. Washington Takes a close 2nd. Megan Goethals runs well, Washington Wins by 4. BOOM, heard it here first.
Nova at #2 on the women's list? This isn't 2009 or 2010. Too many good teams with good 5th runners and Nova isn't one of them.
Is there more rankings other than just the top 3 individuals? I was hoping for a top 25 maybe? anyhow nice work flotrack and see ya later
Woody Kincaid? Anybody, anybody....dude was like 26th as a frosh at the west regional.
this week's floawards will come out on Thursday, there was originally a misprint that say tues. sorry for any confusion
when is this weeks update?
Shelby Houlihan's stats are better than Colleen Quigley's for the FloFrosh! She was the first runner on the ASU team, ran in probably the toughest conference and her time is 17 seconds faster than Quigley's.. What's with this Flotrack?
I think the additional 2k will give the other FloRunner contenders a better shot at Lawi. The description of Chris Derrick suggests that his latter portion of the race is a weakness, but at Pac-12s he closed the gap significantly on Lawi's earlier move if I'm not mistaken. Given 2k more, he may be able to catch all the way up.
You'll also recall from Alex's interview with Lawi that his mileage right now isn't incredibly high which is all the more reason why the transition to 10k may be to his disadvantage.
where is Ryan Hill N.C. State watch out for him!
Craig Lutz is the truth!
Flofrosh women....Baptista and Coogan rightfully got votes.
Keep an eye on Chris Walden from Cal. He ran 23:50 at Pac 12's and beat lukas. Definitely a darkhorse for flofrosh. Go Bears!
Lawi is'nt a freshman for track only cross so he's not elidgable. Are you kidding
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