Biggest Disappointments of the NCAA meet

Cooper Teare got 6th at nationals in 2019. So clearly you are wrong, he is perfectly fit to compete at a 10k distance in cross country.

Big East Decision Maker wrote:

Tuohy beat professionals in a 6k XC race while in HS. You don't think she would have finished top 5 in the NCAA at that time? Top 10? Top 25? I didn't bother going back to that thread but I will bet that posters claimed that she could have been top 5 and if anyone disagreed, they were told that they were uneducated.

Bro this is really silly! Tuohy's doing great! First of all, progress is tough for a girl distance runners for a few years as they mature,... it's been great that she's been able to actually improve her track times from where she was a year ago. She went from running low 420 s 1500 m, too 412 1500m,

She's probably slightly faster in the shorter mid distances and a bit slower over longer distances than she was at her best.... but still look how many girls aren't even running or injured, or way worse than they were in high school.

She just beat a bunch of girls who people said were going to be better than her by 30 and 40 seconds and she fell

That Pro Race wasn't a good measure because she had been running a full season of cross-country and most of those Pros hardly run cross-country, and it's not like she beat Superstar Pros, they were some good Runners though...

And this was a really competitive year in the ncaa's with a lot of 5th + 6 th year seniors... who knows she could have been like somewhere from 8 to 12 if she didn't fall

Anyway I mean people have been going on and on about all these other girls that we're going to be better than her and like most of them aren't even running and the few that are she's like 30 or 40 seconds faster than..,,

so I'm just happy to see that she still enjoying running and working really hard and has a good shot to do some really cool things in her college career. I mean people buy into a lot of unrealistic hype, that's more about people's own naivety and not about someone who's working hard and achieving impressive things in their college career

Yolky wrote:

Cooper Teare got 6th at nationals in 2019. So clearly you are wrong, he is perfectly fit to compete at a 10k distance in cross country.

the winner of that race ran 30:32, and the winner of this race ran 28:33.

for a 3:50 miler and track 5k champion, cooper has done relatively nothing in cross country.

snowdays wrote:

Yolky wrote:

Cooper Teare got 6th at nationals in 2019. So clearly you are wrong, he is perfectly fit to compete at a 10k distance in cross country.

the winner of that race ran 30:32, and the winner of this race ran 28:33.

for a 3:50 miler and track 5k champion, cooper has done relatively nothing in cross country.

Done nothing? Are you serious? Guy just gave one of the greatest performances in running history! I mean to cap off a 10K with some sort of interpretive dance performance at the end. It was brilliant! Crawled, he hobbled, it was a brilliant interpretation of a man on the brink. I've never seen a better performance in decades of going to Broadway shows. It was like a man exploring new forms of locomotion, new forms of muscle contractions, anyway I really enjoyed it

Against this years field

Tuohy

10th grade... 6

11th 4

12th 20

Fresh 26

Soph w/o fall 9

Headed in right direction!

rojo wrote:

Big East Decision Maker wrote:

Tuohy. Best high school Xc runner of all time. So pumped to see her doing so well and so happy as a collegian. Given what has happened to other recent multiple time HS national champs (Sarah Baxter, Claudia Lane), I'm thrilled to see her rocking it at NC State.

Teare. I've got way more respect for him now than before. Dude could have gone pro. Dude could have dropped out. Wanted to have no regrets and he's got none.

Nuguse. The Olympian could have gone pro but came back for the team. Went for it but blew up a little bit.

Notre Dame Men. Didn't want to play it safe and come from behind and finish 2nd or 3rd. Went for it and came up short.

Corrected. OP has some terrible takes.

Nuguse is not an Olympian. He may have been selected for a team but he's never stepped onto an Olympic track to compete and heard the gun go off.

Sprinters who get DQ'd for a false start are more of an Olympian - they touched the track.

snowdays wrote:

Yolky wrote:

Cooper Teare got 6th at nationals in 2019. So clearly you are wrong, he is perfectly fit to compete at a 10k distance in cross country.

the winner of that race ran 30:32, and the winner of this race ran 28:33.

for a 3:50 miler and track 5k champion, cooper has done relatively nothing in cross country.

Not following the logic to compare his 2019 performance in cold, mud and heavy rain to last weekend. If anything his 6th place finish in tough conditions in 2019 solidifies his credentials as a 10k CC runner.

Before Nationals this fall he was a contender in every meet he raced. Clearly he can run CC at a high level.

But she did fall. That makes the point that her performance was one of the most disappointing due to the fall.

Furman’s mens team. Last place after coming in ranked top 20. Everyone ran like a**

iowakidscanrun wrote:

snowdays wrote:

the winner of that race ran 30:32, and the winner of this race ran 28:33.

for a 3:50 miler and track 5k champion, cooper has done relatively nothing in cross country.

Not following the logic to compare his 2019 performance in cold, mud and heavy rain to last weekend. If anything his 6th place finish in tough conditions in 2019 solidifies his credentials as a 10k CC runner.

Before Nationals this fall he was a contender in every meet he raced. Clearly he can run CC at a high level.

naw to NAU wrote:

But she did fall. That makes the point that her performance was one of the most disappointing due to the fall.

I know your trolling... but what difference does 10, 12, or 15 make 4 tuohy.... she was picked, or tracking as like a 10 to 20 range runner and she came in 15 with a fall

Her team won the national championship by a healthy margin and she gave them what they needed and more

Meanwhile there are other girls that were picked as potential contenders to win it or go top 10 that finished outside the top 40. So in what world would she be a disappointment compared to the majority of runners

There are tons of girls who were picked way higher than her and finished way worse. while she finished about where expected and her team won a national....

How is that trolling? If she would have finished higher without falling, that is a bigger disappointment than finishing poorly due to your own failing. Imagine if Kiptoo fell with 400 to go but got up and finished 2nd. He would forever be upset thinking he could have finished 1st. Instead, he finished 2nd under his own control.