Patrick Tiernan of Villanova just crushed everyone at the Washington Huskies meet! Took out the number 4 finisher from last year XC Nationals (Futsum Zienasellassie) by 20 seconds.
Can he contend for an individual title?
Patrick Tiernan of Villanova just crushed everyone at the Washington Huskies meet! Took out the number 4 finisher from last year XC Nationals (Futsum Zienasellassie) by 20 seconds.
Can he contend for an individual title?
I thought Nova had a few guys missing from Paul Short. They had 3 up front and then a huge gap.
20 seconds is not "CRUSHING" the field. It's a solid win for him. Team wise Nova got CRUSHED by NAU.
Maybe or maybe not "crushing" but 20 seconds better than a guy who was 4th at NCAA's last year is a big gap.
Nova split squads between the two meets. Neither meet had all of their top runners in attendance. So, yes, they got beat handily by the full NAU squad.
Nova's number 2,3,& 4 guys were at Paul Short, although 4 & 5 are open to debate.
it matters not... wrote:
20 seconds is not "CRUSHING" the field. It's a solid win for him. Team wise Nova got CRUSHED by NAU.
Disagree. 20 seconds over 8k is CRUSHING the competition.
Twenty seconds in DI XC is a thrashing
Their number four is not open for debate that is sub four miler Renault
Basili and Warnick are 5/6
Based on results from Paul Short Nova surely would have won that easily with around 50 points
Have to look deeper at Wash results
Denault
Sorry typo
How old is he?
Tiernan? He just turned 20 in September
Any reasoning behind them splitting up the team at two different meets? Doesn't make much sense to me as there was plenty of competition at both races...
I think he is pretty much a lock for top 5 at nats. I think he will, as long as everything is fine, beat both the Rosas,Korolev, and Saarel. I think if anyone could beat Cheserk it would be Tiernan.
LimJay wrote:
Any reasoning behind them splitting up the team at two different meets? Doesn't make much sense to me as there was plenty of competition at both races...
In the Flotrack interviews from each race, they basically said that guys like Williamz and Denault had a long season last year (into July), so they're still not where they want to be. They didn't think it made sense to send them all the way to Washington instead of just racing an hour or so up the road.
Actually it was Williams and McEntee who had extended seasons plus World Relays in season.
Long years.
Tiernan is very very good.And very tough.
This is a strong grouping near the top this year.
Nova has done this before. One year the women did not run their entire team together until the NCAA's. They won the championship anyway.
nobody is ever a lock for top 5 at nats in early october, except possibly a guy like cheserek.
last year at this time arguably the best performance of the season so far was leakos (Harvard) with a 23:13 at paul short (under some of chelanga's times there) and where was he at nats?
if anything crushing it the first weekend in october is a bad sign for ncaas.
not knowing anything about tiernan specifically, just looking at history.
history "buff" wrote:
nobody is ever a lock for top 5 at nats in early october, except possibly a guy like cheserek.
last year at this time arguably the best performance of the season so far was leakos (Harvard) with a 23:13 at paul short (under some of chelanga's times there) and where was he at nats?
if anything crushing it the first weekend in october is a bad sign for ncaas.
not knowing anything about tiernan specifically, just looking at history.
I'd say he is a "guy like Cheserek." The dude got 6th in the 5k as a Frosh. He got 10th in XC NCAAs last year. He is bond to get even better. I think he has the best talent besides Chesererk in the NCAA distance world. He is a force to be reckoned with, as long as he doesn't get hurt.
[quote]Trialswatcher wrote:
Actually it was Williams and McEntee who had extended seasons plus World Relays in season.
Long years.
/quote]
My bad. I couldn't remember off the top of my head and didn't feel like rewatching the interviews.