BYU is a joke - Two 24-yr old BYU athletes won 2021 NCAA XC

Some kids peak in high school, some at 20, 21, 22.23

Is Whitni Orton a joke? She didnt serve a mission and is a normal senior like everyone else. Why did she win the title?

The women have won 5 national titles...they aren't serving missions like the men....

Why is that?

Wow!

We've never seen this topic before !

this is a joke wrote:

I understand they have to take a year off to do their religious stuff but being 24 is a massive advantage in distance running. You are no where near your peak when you are 20-22. What an embarrassment to see two 24 year olds from BYU take the cross titles.

How do you feel about a 23 year old high school kid?

Pleas provide a link to a study or any data backing your claim. Science says that 99 % of humans are fully mature by about 18 years old. And many of the top distance runner in the world are around 20 years old.

Not a crybaby wrote:

Pleas provide a link to a study or any data backing your claim. Science says that 99 % of humans are fully mature by about 18 years old. And many of the top distance runner in the world are around 20 years old.

Fully mature doesn’t mean fully trained.

galenruppisjacked wrote:

Is Whitni Orton a joke? She didnt serve a mission and is a normal senior like everyone else. Why did she win the title?

The women have won 5 national titles...they aren't serving missions like the men....

Why is that?

op respond to this

fully mature wrote:

Not a crybaby wrote:

Pleas provide a link to a study or any data backing your claim. Science says that 99 % of humans are fully mature by about 18 years old. And many of the top distance runner in the world are around 20 years old.

Fully mature doesn’t mean fully trained.

If being fully trained is the issue, how does taking two years off from training help with that?

If you whiners spent half as much time training as you do crying on an anonymous message board you might actually make something of your lives. The rest of the world is out doing everything they can to compete internationally while the American pansies are at home lamenting yet again that they’ve missed out on their age group medal.

galenruppisjacked wrote:

Is Whitni Orton a joke? She didnt serve a mission and is a normal senior like everyone else. Why did she win the title?

The women have won 5 national titles...they aren't serving missions like the men....

Why is that?

She’s 24. Did she graduate hs at 20 then?

The 1st 3 MN women all graduated in 2016. Covid was a year off and the other 5 years are normal. Hacker and Pollard are in their 7th years due to Covid.

I can't believe that full grown adults are allowed to compete against...other full grown adults. The horror!

this is an outrage! wrote:

I can't believe that full grown adults are allowed to compete against...other full grown adults. The horror!

Not saying it’s anything horrible. I would just be embarrassed to win a collegiate race at 24. I graduated college a month after turning 22. I would have had to have been a 7th year senior to be 24 during XC.

At age 24, I had graduated college, obtained a Master's Degree, and taken a management position in Information Technology.

this is a joke wrote:

I understand they have to take a year off to do their religious stuff but being 24 is a massive advantage in distance running. You are no where near your peak when you are 20-22. What an embarrassment to see two 24 year olds from BYU take the cross titles.

Why didn’t we hear from you last year when Charlie Hunter was winning ncaa titles at 25 years of age?

Not a crybaby wrote:

Pleas provide a link to a study or any data backing your claim. Science says that 99 % of humans are fully mature by about 18 years old. And many of the top distance runner in the world are around 20 years old.

Um... Moran alert.

OP didn't make any claim that would need to be backed up. OP only suggested that runners who have had more training to age 23-24 would be better than younger runners, and that's true. No one would even debate that. If it wasn't true than why don't you see more pro runners between age 18 and 22?

However, you claim a tangible number as fact that "99% of humans are fully mature by about 18 years old." Can you please provide a link to a study or any data backing your claim?

Why would you make such a weak claim that needs the phrase "about 18 years old" in it?

this is a joke wrote:

galenruppisjacked wrote:

Is Whitni Orton a joke? She didnt serve a mission and is a normal senior like everyone else. Why did she win the title?

The women have won 5 national titles...they aren't serving missions like the men....

Why is that?

She’s 24. Did she graduate hs at 20 then?

Shes a covid redshirt sr.. Like the rest of the field.

No mission for her.

She's doing what ever other senior is doing...