2009 NCAA XC Conference Central

Just wanted to add this to my comments below about the PAC-10 Championships. Kendra Schaaf took off very quickly and led most of the race. In the last K Nicole Blood and Jordan Hasay ran her down. She came back on Hasay finishing 2nd. This older video from 2007 Canadian Championship is the first time I saw her run. She'll be tough at both the West meet and the Nats. http://www.flotrack.org/videos/track_race/play/6147-jr-girls-5k

yes, we did

I'm guessing DePaul University running at the Wisconsin course this last weekend.

who are you BDemon, I think you are on my team and I have an idea of who you are

I think Nova's girls should stay at Number 2. Looked very impressive over a very good West Virginia team. The times were slower, but you should have seen the course. Nova's girls are very very good.

So are the coaches rankings going to hit the streets tomorrow reflecting Washington/Stanford men still one/two, as it should be, and the Washington women/Oregon women as #1/#2, as it should be? They did run side by side, full strength, with the best team times in the country I would guess. If they keep the Ducks at #8 it could be kind of embarrassing before the month is over.

The Pac-10 website listed the incorrect women's XC champs. Washington won over Oregon!

I bet it was the football team. But on the bright side USC finished second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

I could of swore the Pac 10 website had Oregon women on the front page as the winners, whoops!

Oregon women are getting ever so close to Washington! Alex K is coming back strong and it's nice to see nicole blood take the overall...should be fun!

The 2009 PAC-10 Cross-country Championships were amazingly fast yesterday on a near-perfect day and a near-perfect course. Held at the Sky Links Golf Course in Long Beach, Ca, the running course was prepared by the USC staff and other Southern California notable volunteers.
The much anticipated women’s race began with Huskie Kendra Schaaf taking a huge lead early on. Watching Kendra charge through three laps on this beautiful course brought back memories of her Canadian HS championship run in Ontario, Canada. On three inches of packed snow she was just as fast, slipping and sliding, but always on her feet, like a proverbial cat, and running alone way out front. It seemed like there would be no challengers for her until the last kilometer when Blood, Hasay, Babkock, and Lawrence began a charge. Blood and Hasay ran her down and it looked like Oregon would go 1-2 at the finish. But Schaaf came back on them, passing Hasay, making for a dramatic finish. Blood would win and Schaaf was second, only two seconds ahead of Hasay. Jordan Hasay was so cooked at the end she walked across the finish line in her final few steps. Mel Lawrence tripped the lights just 5/100 of a second behind her. Jordan had run a 20:33 at the Pre-Nats earlier this month. On this day she ran 45 seconds faster, 19:48.97! Nicole Blood ran a PR and nearly a course record of 19:41.71. A minute later, with a time of 20:40.99, Huskie Lauren Saylor crossed the line in 25th place. As I checked times, runner after runner, to compare best performances prior to this race, it seemed like nearly everyone was running their career best. PAC-10 officials were picking them up off the ground, walking them to their coaches and teammates at the gate. Kosinski was holding the fence to stay up, Hasay was sitting on the ground with Coach Lananna pouring water down her back, purple jackets and sweatshirts were funneling into the finish area to get the Huskie girls up and moving again.
Coming into this meet my best guess was that Washington would win again, but not a clean sweep of the first six places like last year. I was correct. The Huskie girls scored 35 points (2, 4, 5, 8, 16) and Oregon was right behind them with 42 points (1, 3, 9, 12, 17). Their respective coaches have been playing an unbelievable chess game this season, holding out a little, taking very good care of their runners, staying focused on the big picture, the National Championship. The 14th of November will bring the next move in this battle at the West meet. My intuition tells me they may not run everyone; they may not go all out. Whatever it takes to have all of the Ducks and Huskies toe in on line at Indiana State University in peak form, healthy, and very hungry!

Oregon over Washington (women) in the Pac-10, upset correct?

Yikes, UNM take mens and womens!

http://www.themwc.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/mwc/sports/c-xc/auto_pdf/mwc-09-m-xc-champ

Big 12 Men: http://www.big12sports.com//pdf5/652675.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10410
Big 12 Women: http://www.big12sports.com//pdf5/652700.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=10410

where can i get the big twelve results? anyone no if there is a race video anywhere?

University of New Mexico men upset BYU at MWC Championships by 5 points!!!! Go Lobos!

OSU men won. Went 1, 2, 3, 4, and 14.

GREAT WEST CONFERENCE - XC results from Bronx, NY

http://www.greatwestconference.org/sports/c-xc/spec-rel/103109aad.html

Any word on how Big 12s are going?

ACC results on Twitter. Go to their championship site and it is on the right. NC state over Virginia even though Virginia go 1-2 with Heineking and Collins

Sweet, this page will be helpful!

More! October 27 at 6:32pm
At which conference meets will Flotrack be filming?

Flotrack will be concentrating their efforts this weekend at the NYC Marathon for ultimate coverage purposes!

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At which conference meets will Flotrack be filming?

awesome page, thanks for this