The Buff teams try to punch their tickets this Friday to the NCAA Championships with races at the Mountain Regions in Salt Lake City, UT (hosted by Utah). The women start their 6K race at 11:00 AM, while the men go up to 10K (from 8K) for the 1st time this season in their's, scheduled to start at noon MT. Best wishes to the women's and men's teams!
Hope they accomplish all the goals for Regionals, which I always assume is (1- of course) qualify for Nationals while (2) minimizing effort so that all the team members have as much left in the tank as possible for the NCAA Championships (which are only 8 days after regional) and (3) not have any injuries or illnesses going into the races or picking up any new ones.
My random notes-
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Regionals’ Links -
Host's (Utah) Regional's homepage - https://utahutes.com/sports/2019/10/7/2019-ncaa-mountain-region-championships.aspx
List of individual entries by team - Don't see a nice sorted list (By team) right now, but the race results available through links in the ”Live results” link below look to include preliminary entries (in name order). Looks like there are around 10 potential CU male runners and 9 women listed, of which only 7 for each gender can actually race on Friday.
Live Video (Only available for those with a premium ($) subscription to Flotrack/ Flosports) - https://www.flotrack.org/live/8860-...ontent=website&rtid=14063&coverage_id=6255664
Live results - http://www.runnercard.com/results3/meet?meetId=7fb22a04-ad49-4268-b0be-a51baa339a20
Hope they accomplish all the goals for Regionals, which I always assume is (1- of course) qualify for Nationals while (2) minimizing effort so that all the team members have as much left in the tank as possible for the NCAA Championships (which are only 8 days after regional) and (3) not have any injuries or illnesses going into the races or picking up any new ones.
My random notes-
- 9 regional races will determine which 31 teams for each gender get selected for the Championships.
- The top 2 finishing teams in each of the regions are the 18 auto-qualifiers.
- The remaining 13 teams are "At-large" selections. Unlike the team sport selection process most of us are familiar with (with their selection committees), the at-large teams in cross country are selected almost totally on a mathematical calculation based on how many wins the next highest regional finishers have accumulated over the 18 auto-qualifiers, and any other teams that have earned at-large berths earlier in the process (with a few exceptions). (The wins over other all ready selected teams are called "Kolas points".)
- The at-large calculation has quite a few rules. For those interested, here's what looks to me like a couple decent descriptions of the process and rules - http://www.ustfccca.org/meets-results/ncaa-championship-qualifying-criteria and https://www.thestridereport.com/understanding-kolas .
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Regionals’ Links -
Host's (Utah) Regional's homepage - https://utahutes.com/sports/2019/10/7/2019-ncaa-mountain-region-championships.aspx
List of individual entries by team - Don't see a nice sorted list (By team) right now, but the race results available through links in the ”Live results” link below look to include preliminary entries (in name order). Looks like there are around 10 potential CU male runners and 9 women listed, of which only 7 for each gender can actually race on Friday.
Live Video (Only available for those with a premium ($) subscription to Flotrack/ Flosports) - https://www.flotrack.org/live/8860-...ontent=website&rtid=14063&coverage_id=6255664
Live results - http://www.runnercard.com/results3/meet?meetId=7fb22a04-ad49-4268-b0be-a51baa339a20
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