Regular season ends today for the men and women in Ypsilanti this afternoon. MAC championships will be on Halloween.

http://www.utrockets.com/news/2015/10/22...ath=mcross

Let's get a Holloween championship!

Here's a link to how the UT squads did at the Eastern Michigan Fall Classic. Team scores weren't kept.

http://utrockets.com/news/2015/10/23/MXC...ath=mcross

Below is a link to a story on the UT site about the MAC championship, set for Halloween.

FWIW (which isn't much) looks I'll be out of touch for at least a few days and won't be giving any of my "eagerly anticipated" updates.

More seriously, up next for the cross country squads (after the conference championship) is the NCAA regional on November 13th.

http://www.utrockets.com/news/2015/10/29...ath=wcross

Believe me, the frequency of posts in these threads don't reflect the interest in your posts.

(10-30-2015 07:04 AM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  Believe me, the frequency of posts in these threads don't reflect the interest in your posts.

That is a very interesting post.

End of an era. Women finish 9th of 12. First finisher was 30th. Worst finish since Hadsell's first year in 1998 when they finished last. Claims of redshirting top two women would not have made any difference. Even if those two women finished 1st and 2nd (not remotely likely) they team would have still been 5th or so. Men finished dead last.

Go soccer vs WMU tomorrow!

Men actually appeared to have some promise. Very disappointing.

We've seen the destruction of women's MAC championship programs in XC, swimming and soccer.

(10-31-2015 01:57 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  We've seen the destruction of women's MAC championship programs in XC, swimming and soccer.

Each had a successful coach leave unexpectedly. I think soccer and x-country may rebuild quickly. Not sure about swimming.

Swimming is too far gone, I think. Soccer was bad the last two years before Evans left so they are actually on an upswing already. But cross country coach has been gone for three years and when he left they were a Top15 program with all freshmen and sophomores. There wasn't anything to rebuild. Track was indoor and outdoor runner-up also but they are bottom too under new guy.

I don't know what's happening with swimming. They don't seem to be showing any signs of improvement.

(10-31-2015 02:26 PM)utxctrack Wrote:  Swimming is too far gone, I think. Soccer was bad the last two years before Evans left so they are actually on an upswing already. But cross country coach has been gone for three years and when he left they were a Top15 program with all freshmen and sophomores. There wasn't anything to rebuild. Track was indoor and outdoor runner-up also but they are bottom too under new guy.

I don't know what's happening with swimming. They don't seem to be showing any signs of improvement.

Yes, agreed. Soccer looks promising. Women's cross-country looks like a very bad hire. This guy took a program loaded with talent, and we sank to the bottom just about as fast as could be imagined.

No story on the UT website yet, but signings being reported on twitter. So far:

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Maddie Ferner! Maddie is from York, PA and has PRs of 5:11/10:56/18:42. #UTXC pic.twitter.com/ahQlC1M5ws

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Athena Welsh @AthenaWelsh! A 3-time OH state champ from STA with PRs of 4:58/10:47/17:58. pic.twitter.com/07ReJMLXjW

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Stephanie Sherman @scrappysherman! Sherman is a Toledo native with 5:11/11:17/18:21 PRs. pic.twitter.com/UGQaOZaAhI

I'll let you track folk comment on how good those times are, cause I don't know. Here's a story on Welsh: http://www.thescorestark.com/03/2015/my-...ena-welsh/

(11-11-2015 12:06 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  No story on the UT website yet, but signings being reported on twitter. So far:

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Maddie Ferner! Maddie is from York, PA and has PRs of 5:11/10:56/18:42. #UTXC pic.twitter.com/ahQlC1M5ws

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Athena Welsh @AthenaWelsh! A 3-time OH state champ from STA with PRs of 4:58/10:47/17:58. pic.twitter.com/07ReJMLXjW

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Stephanie Sherman @scrappysherman! Sherman is a Toledo native with 5:11/11:17/18:21 PRs. pic.twitter.com/UGQaOZaAhI

I'll let you track folk comment on how good those times are, cause I don't know. Here's a story on Welsh: http://www.thescorestark.com/03/2015/my-...ena-welsh/

If we don't ruin her right away Jerman is probably number one or two next year. Great get for the Rockets.

Story on Ferner: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/localsports/...a-division Very unusual choice in course of study.

Another one:

Quote:Welcome to Rocket Nation Mia Jerman @miajerman! Mia is from St Genevieve, MO and has PRs of 4:58/10:42/17:56. #UTXC pic.twitter.com/SqY0FBOlt9

and a brief story: http://www.vandalialeader.com/jerman-fin...-at-state/

OK, forget my previous post. In my post-CMU euphoria/ dread I thought these were all stories on the same woman. Looks like decent times overall. We had very few runners breaking 18 last year, IIRC. Xcountry times are tough to use for comparison though due to varying degrees of difficulty and casual measuring of distance, although I suspect that's much easier and more accurate these days than in the misty dregs of time.

(11-11-2015 12:28 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Story on Ferner: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/localsports/...a-division Very unusual choice in course of study.

Especially since UT doesn't offer zoology.

(11-11-2015 08:12 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(11-11-2015 12:28 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  Story on Ferner: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/localsports/...a-division Very unusual choice in course of study.

Especially since UT doesn't offer zoology.

She'll be like one of those BG engineering students.

There doesn't seem to be a story about this on the UT site as of early Thursday morning, but the NCAA Great Lakes Regionals (for the men and the women) are tomorrow, Friday the 13th. Hosted by Wisconsin.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/2015/10/...ath=wcross