Griz track & field picked for middle of conference
Well, this marks the very first entry on this blog regarding track and field. How that happened, I don't know considering I ran track for two years in high school and had a great time. Nevertheless, here it is.
The Griz track teams are picked to finish fifth and seventh in the Big Sky Conference. The women are seventh while the men are fifth. Weber State came in first in both polls.
The interesting thing about track is that it's scored as a team sport when in all actuality, there isn't a sport that focuses more on individual efforts. What I'm getting at is that even though the team as a whole may not be best in the conference you still can come out and watch some great individual performances.
I may be wrong because I don't know a ton about the track team but I think the women's distance team has to be the best the Griz have to offer. The stars of this group are junior Allie Brosh and true frosh Megan O'Reilly (right). Brosh's cross country and track careers have been phenomenal while O'Reilly may best female high school runner ever to come out of the state of Washington.
From what I've from a friend, O'Reilly's runs are stuff of legend. She supposedly had the crowd at the state meet in Pasco, Washington on its feet during her mile. She won the 3,200 and the mile three times each. This is incredible considering many runners pick just focus on as it's pretty tough to go all out in each on consecutive days. Oh, and no high school female has ever run a faster 5,000 meter indoor time; she's third outdoors. She ran the fasted high school 3,200 in the nation last year. However, injury — stress fractures I think — did force her to redshirt her freshman cross country season. I really hope she won't be missing track season as well.
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Well, this marks the very first entry on this blog regarding track and field. How that happened, I don't know considering I ran track for two years in high school and had a great time. Nevertheless, here it is.
The Griz track teams are picked to finish fifth and seventh in the Big Sky Conference. The women are seventh while the men are fifth. Weber State came in first in both polls.
The interesting thing about track is that it's scored as a team sport when in all actuality, there isn't a sport that focuses more on individual efforts. What I'm getting at is that even though the team as a whole may not be best in the conference you still can come out and watch some great individual performances.
I may be wrong because I don't know a ton about the track team but I think the women's distance team has to be the best the Griz have to offer. The stars of this group are junior Allie Brosh and true frosh Megan O'Reilly (right). Brosh's cross country and track careers have been phenomenal while O'Reilly may best female high school runner ever to come out of the state of Washington.
From what I've from a friend, O'Reilly's runs are stuff of legend. She supposedly had the crowd at the state meet in Pasco, Washington on its feet during her mile. She won the 3,200 and the mile three times each. This is incredible considering many runners pick just focus on as it's pretty tough to go all out in each on consecutive days. Oh, and no high school female has ever run a faster 5,000 meter indoor time; she's third outdoors. She ran the fasted high school 3,200 in the nation last year. However, injury — stress fractures I think — did force her to redshirt her freshman cross country season. I really hope she won't be missing track season as well.
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