2024 NCAA Cross Country Season Check-In | Pre-Nationals Recap + Rankings Shake-Ups With A Month To Go
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Isaac Wood are back for another NCAA cross country recap episode. As championship season approaches, we recap the last few regular season meets: Pre-Nationals, Dellinger Invite, Princeton Classic, and Arturo Barrios. We break down the top teams and individual performances over the past few weeks and share our predictions for who to watch for as the NCAA Championship gets closer.
Time Stamps:
Women | Recap + Predictions
1:58 - What to make of the newest rankings.
4:48 - BYU’s rise to the top.
7:42 - Washington is making a jump to podium ranking.
9:30 - West Virginia’s breakout performance.
11:42 - Thoughts on NAU + NC State.
13:37 - Florida State’s underrated performance.
16:22 - Could the Utah women be a podium-contending team?
20:09 - Princeton Classic recap.
22:03 - Individuals to watch: Pamela Kosgei and Doris Lemnogole.
Men | Recap + Predictions
26:42 - OSU’s dominance.
28:52 - Arkansas’ standout performance at Pre-Nats.
30:39 - Dellinger recap + BYU closing the gap on OSU.
36:05 - Texas tech + Solomon Kipchoge.
37:26 - Pre-Nats recap: Habtom Samuel vs. Graham Blanks.
39:45 - Big 12 Preview.
40:54 - Princeton Classic recap.
42:45 - NAU falling in the rankings.
Podium predictions:
45:55 - Women’s teams + individual.
46:39 - Men’s teams + individual.
LISTEN: 2024 NCAA Cross Country Season Preview
Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Host: Isaac Wood | @isaacew on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | It is October 22nd and you're listening to the city of |
| 0:10.0 | Mad cross country show I figured I would give us a little name. That's simple enough, the |
| 0:16.4 | Citius Mad Cross Country Show. Isaac Wood and I do this every other week. We've been trying to get on a bi-weekly cadence but it's been a little bit |
| 0:26.4 | busy for me traveling to Toronto for the Toronto TCS Toronto waterfront marathon and then all these Grand Slam track signings and just a lot of other stuff happening. |
| 0:37.6 | The track and field off season doesn't really exist, but I'm stoked Isaac to catch up with you to talk cross-country because the last |
| 0:47.1 | time we spoke it was before the Wisconsin Invitational, |
| 0:53.2 | which was what we like to go- |
| 0:55.6 | Nettie Com. |
| 0:56.6 | The season opener when we got our first glimpse of athletes |
| 1:02.2 | on the same course that will be competing at the |
| 1:04.9 | NCA cross-country championships. |
| 1:06.5 | But from the start list and the results of that race, it didn't seem like all of the top teams went to that meet |
| 1:14.6 | instead they saved it for pre-Nats which just took place this past weekend but |
| 1:20.0 | then at the same time we've had results pouring in from the Delanger Invite, the FSU |
| 1:25.2 | invite, the Crimson Classic, Princeton Fall Classic, so lots has happened. |
| 1:32.8 | It is now officially the end of the regular season |
| 1:35.4 | before we shift over to championship season |
| 1:38.0 | with conference championships and then regionals |
| 1:42.2 | and then obviously the NCAA championships themselves. |
| 1:47.0 | There's been a lot of moves in the rankings. |
| 1:50.5 | We have a better idea of individuals fitness. |
| 1:55.0 | So as we catch up on everything, Isaac, let's start with playing a little bit of |
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