NCAA XC Meet 2006

[Nevada Hoya]

This year's NCAA XC meet will be in Terre Haute, Indiana, as it was last year. The men and women are both automatically qualifiers. The complete list of teams, autos and at-large teams are listed as follows:

Men’s Automatic Qualifying Teams Men’s At-large Teams
Alabama Arizona
American Butler
Arkansas Cal Poly
Brigham Young Florida
Colorado Iowa
Florida State Louisville
Georgetown Michigan State
Iona Portland
Kansas UC Santa Barbara
North Carolina State UCLA
Notre Dame Virginia
Oklahoma State Washington
Oregon Washington State
Providence
Stanford
Texas
William and Mary
Wisconsin


Women’s Automatic Qualifying Teams Women’s At-large Teams
Arkansas Arizona State
Baylor Brigham Young
Boston College Colorado State
Colorado Florida State
Duke Iowa
Florida Michigan
Georgetown North Carolina
Georgia Providence
Illinois Tennessee
Iona Virginia
Michigan State Virginia Tech
Minnesota Wake Forest
North Carolina State Weber State
Princeton
Stanford
Texas Tech
UC Santa Barbara
Wisconsin


The biggest surprise was that Kenya (make that UTEP), ranked 4 or 5 in the country before the regionals is not going to the big dance, but seven teams from the west region are going in addition to the two autos. It all has to do with the NCAA complicated formula based on wins against auto qualifiers. UTEP's win came against the #2 team in the country, Arkansas, but a win against a top ranked team is worth no more than a win against some mediocre auto qualifier. Impact on the Hoyas - they should move up one place that would have been conceded to UTEP.

[TrueHoyaBlue]

Georgetown is one of a small number of schools with both men's and women's teams qualifying this season:

BYU
N.C. State
Iona
Colorado
Iowa
Providence
and the Hoyas!

[Nevada Hoya]

truehoyablue said:

Georgetown is one of a small number of schools with both men's and women's teams qualifying this season:

BYU
N.C. State
Iona
Colorado
Iowa
Providence
and the Hoyas!

Arkansas and Stanford, two traditional top XC teams, also qualified a men's and women's team. In fact, Stanford and Arkansas are favored to go 1,2 in the women's race, and the both top 10 for the men.

[Nevada Hoya]

The women fell to 18th (from 15) in the final poll of the season. A little write-up about the team's chanced for the NCAAs.

18. GEORGETOWN

Georgetown finished 27th at last fall’s NCAA harrier meet, returning Maggie Infeld (101), Elizabeth Maloy (144), Lise Ogrodnick (174), Joanna Rodgers (203), Kim Malcolm (233), and Sabine Knothe (238). Georgetown won the Sept 30 Colonial Interregional, with Maloy, Grelli, Infeld, Funk, and Collins splitting 92-sec for 6K. The Hoyas claimed 8th in the Pre-NCAA White race behind NC State, Wisconsin, Michigan, UCSB, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee; Maloy, Grelli, Infeld, Rodgers, and Funk combined for a 78-sec 1-5 split over 6K. Georgetown claimed runner-up honors behind PC at the Big East Champs, with Malor, Grelli, Funk, Bontz, and Laneaud combining for a 63-sec 1-5 gap over 6K. The Hoyas finished second behind Princeton at the Mid-Atlantic Regional; Mallor, Grelli, Infield, Bontz, and Rodgers combined for a 1:05 1-5 gap over 6K.

[Nevada Hoya]

The men moved up to 13th from 16th:


Cross Country Week 6 (11/14/06)
1. Wisconsin (449)
2. Colorado (425)
3. Arkansas (413)
4. Iona (410)
5. Oregon (400)
6. Stanford (374)
7. NC State (351)
8. BYU (308)
9. Portland (297)
10. Florida State (293)
11. Providence (284)
12. Oklahoma State (258)
13. Georgetown (256)
14. Notre Dame (246)
15. Alabama (245)
16. Texas (213)
17. Kansas (200)
18. Florida (194)
19. Butler (177)
20. UTEP (172)
21. Willam & Mary (151)
22. Washington (150)
23. Arizona (137)
24. Iowa (113)
25. Louisville (109)
26. Michigan State (80)
27. American (69)
28. Santa Barbara (44)
29. Virginia (43)
30. UCLA (39)

[Nevada Hoya]

The rumors are that Bumbi is out with either a stress fracture or a sore IT band. Bodes ill for our chances at NCAAs tomorrow. Since Bonsey ran at IC4As, his place is probably going to be taken by Brian Dalpiaz. The top 15 finish looks more like a 15-20 finish.

[reformation]

Women finish 16th--a good result for them

[reformation]

Men finish 24th, worst performance in quite a while---top runners bombed out(Debole, Nunn), Miller and Bumbalough did not run--somewhat inexplicable given their regional + BE performance

[Nevada Hoya]

The men did worse than the bball Hoyas yesterday, if that can be. I guess the stars were not aligned for the men over these two days. I guess Bumbi either has the stress fracture or sore IT band that was rumored. I have no idea about Levi, and Debole had a terrible race. I wondered if he tried to go out with the leaders and bonked. Dan Nunn did not have a very good race. But Andre Laboy, Justin Scheid, and Brian Dalpiaz (especially Brian) all had good races.

On the women's side the team did great and Melissa will take over as the leader next year, when Elizabeth Maloy graduates, as Melissa beat Liz for the first time. Jenny Funk came back (didn't run regionals). The women beat Princeton, which beat the Hoyas in regionals, and BYU, a perennial XC power.

[CO_Hoya]

Fear the Buffaloes

[Nevada Hoya]

Congrats, CO! Is that two out of three. Wisco comes in the odds on favorite and the Buffs blow them away - again.

[CO_Hoya]

Yeah, and 3rd men's title this decade (women have won 2, as well).

Meanwhile, the local Volvo dealership has a commercial with Alan Culpepper, although it's not clear what one has to do with the other.

[Nevada Hoya]

Maybe AC wants to be the John Elway of running. Wetmore can really coach a team to peak at the right time.