NC STATE Three-Peat (Ohio ties)

psycho_dad

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Coaching staff Ohio ties and Sam Bush and Grace Hartman.

The Wolfpack won its third-straight National Title in dramatic fashion as NC State edged second-place Northern Arizona by one point in the closest team finish in NCAA DI Women's Cross Country Championship history.
 
 
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That regional was estimated to be a full minute fast...meaning the course was SHORT. I watched that race and knew it was short
 
Oakwood's Grace Hartman has really picked it up and has been running as NC State's #1 this season. She had a big performance this past weekend at the Pre-Nats, placing 6th.

NC State is a bit down as a team but they have lost a lot of talent and have a key injury. All top programs go through those periods but they're still a solid team.

 
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Grace Hartman wins the ACC championship today. The team is still struggling a bit in the post- Tuohy, Chmiel, et al. era and is without Stephens due to an injury. They were down in 5th in the tightly contested team race won by Notre Dame.

Lake’s Daniela Scheffler will be joining the Wolfpack next year.

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I have already watched the ACC meet but someone did put it on youtube.

tracknationtv put the SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Big Sky meets all on one video and posted it. It seems like these sorts of videos are often taken down due to copyright stuff but for now it's up. The whole video is over 6 hours long.

If you skip ahead to about the 1:18:30 mark the ACC men's race starts. Gary Martin of Virginia had a pretty convincing win. Martin's teammate, Nathan Mountain of St. X was 19th and there are a few glimpses of him in the pack. He finished in 23:00. Connor Ackley of Davison and now at Syracuse also ran a decent race and was 47th in 23:29. I could not pick him out when watching. The times were stupid fast in both the men's & women's races. Ackley's time averaged out to 4:43 per mile.

The women's race starts at about the 2:00:00 mark in the video. Grace Hartman blew apart the field and shook off the woman from Clemson on a steep hill right at about the 2:13:00 mark. Her dominance was impressive.

The video is here.
 
I have already watched the ACC meet but someone did put it on youtube.

tracknationtv put the SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Big Sky meets all on one video and posted it. It seems like these sorts of videos are often taken down due to copyright stuff but for now it's up. The whole video is over 6 hours long.

If you skip ahead to about the 1:18:30 mark the ACC men's race starts. Gary Martin of Virginia had a pretty convincing win. Martin's teammate, Nathan Mountain of St. X was 19th and there are a few glimpses of him in the pack. He finished in 23:00. Connor Ackley of Davison and now at Syracuse also ran a decent race and was 47th in 23:29. I could not pick him out when watching. The times were stupid fast in both the men's & women's races. Ackley's time averaged out to 4:43 per mile.

The women's race starts at about the 2:00:00 mark in the video. Grace Hartman blew apart the field and shook off the woman from Clemson on a steep hill right at about the 2:13:00 mark. Her dominance was impressive.

The video is here.
Thanks for the link. The "did not have a lot of high school experience" comment from the broadcaster as she neared the finish line was odd considering she won 2 state XC championships (and finished as runner up the other 2 years), won multiple individual titles and a team state championship in track, and ran in/placed well at a number of post-post season and national meets while in high school.
 
Thanks for the link. The "did not have a lot of high school experience" comment from the broadcaster as she neared the finish line was odd considering she won 2 state XC championships (and finished as runner up the other 2 years), won multiple individual titles and a team state championship in track, and ran in/placed well at a number of post-post season and national meets while in high school.
Yeah, I thought that was an odd comment also. The announcer that said that was Norm Ogilvie, the long-time Duke distance coach that retired in the late 2010s at some point. I think that he is a better coach than an announcer. While Hartman was very strong in high school, some didn't believe that she would become one of the best women runners in the country. She certainly has blossomed over the past few years and I sort of interpreted his comment to allude to that.

He also said that Laurie Henes has spent her whole life in Raleigh. Those that know the history of Ohio XC will know that she is from Boardman and ran at Boardman HS. She was Laurie Gomez before marrying Bob Henes of Woodridge HS.

After Hartman won I was considering the Ohio runners that have won ACC championships. I had to look at the ACC record book and may have missed some. Someone like psychodad or some other old timer may know better than me.

On the men's side I came up with

- Bob Henes of Woodridge & NC State won in 1987, 1989, & 1990.
- George Nicholas of Dayton Meadowdale & UNC - 1985

Women

- Laurie Gomez-Henes of Boardman & NC State and now the NCS HC - 1991
- Elly Henes, not an Ohio runner but the daughter of Bob & Laurie - 2019
- Dominique Clairmonte of Lexington & NC State - 2020
- Grace Hartman of Oakwood & NC State - 2024
 
Thanks for the link. The "did not have a lot of high school experience" comment from the broadcaster as she neared the finish line was odd considering she won 2 state XC championships (and finished as runner up the other 2 years), won multiple individual titles and a team state championship in track, and ran in/placed well at a number of post-post season and national meets while in high school.
Who knows what information the announcer had available or was given to him/her? About the only one in track & field these days that I listen to is Ato Boldon now that Dwight Stones was pulled off international/national broadcasts (except for college). Ato is a serious guy, still plugged into the sport through his own coaching of athletes, and is a pilot himself. I'll listen to John Anderson for high jumping as he was a 7 ft jumper himself, and Lewis Johnson given his decades as a commentator after this own days as an international rabbit for 800m post-collegiate (8th at NCAA for the Bearcats). To each their own.

Not many outside of Ohio know Ohioans. We're one of those "fly-over" states.
 
I can't remember if she won an ACC title or not, but Reading's multi-state champ, Connie Jo Robinson (Reading, '82), figured prominently for the Wolfpack from 1982-86. All-ACC X-C from '82-'84 and Women's team MVP in '82 as a frosh. CJ was also 1981 Kinney Nat'l Champion, and STILL the Ohio record-holder for girls 5000m in XC!
 
Who knows what information the announcer had available or was given to him/her? About the only one in track & field these days that I listen to is Ato Boldon now that Dwight Stones was pulled off international/national broadcasts (except for college). Ato is a serious guy, still plugged into the sport through his own coaching of athletes, and is a pilot himself. I'll listen to John Anderson for high jumping as he was a 7 ft jumper himself, and Lewis Johnson given his decades as a commentator after this own days as an international rabbit for 800m post-collegiate (8th at NCAA for the Bearcats). To each their own.

Not many outside of Ohio know Ohioans. We're one of those "fly-over" states.
Lewis Johnson appeared in a couple episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger as a reporter, so he's also got that going for him.
 
Who knows what information the announcer had available or was given to him/her? About the only one in track & field these days that I listen to is Ato Boldon now that Dwight Stones was pulled off international/national broadcasts (except for college). Ato is a serious guy, still plugged into the sport through his own coaching of athletes, and is a pilot himself. I'll listen to John Anderson for high jumping as he was a 7 ft jumper himself, and Lewis Johnson given his decades as a commentator after this own days as an international rabbit for 800m post-collegiate (8th at NCAA for the Bearcats). To each their own.

Not many outside of Ohio know Ohioans. We're one of those "fly-over" states.
Of course Ohio is a "fly-over" state, no one wants to stop and see the dogs and cats being eaten.
 
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