Hope we can have indoor and outdoor season for 2020-2021

Most of our recruits have already been enrolled to start classes this week.

These are the recruits that are enrolled

Women
Katherine McElaney Distance
Athing Mu Mid Distance
Dominique Mustin Mid Distance
Madeline Orr Mid Distance
Alicia Burnett Sprints
Laila Owens Sprints
Sydnee Stewart Sprints
Jasmine Logan - Sprints
Angellica Street Javelin
Katelyn Buckley - Distance

Men
Nicklaus Brawner Distance
Timothy McElaney - Distance
Devon Achane Sprints
Kirk Collins Hurdles
Brandon Miller Mid distance
Carter Bajoit High jump
Jonathan Chung Middle Distance
Allon Tatsunami Clay Mid Distance
Omajuwa Etiwe Sprints
Sam Hankins Javelin
Victor Zuniga Mid Distance
Caden Norris Mid Distance
Demond Demas Jumps
Joseph Hohne - Throw

Transfers
Summer Thorpe - Hurdles
James Smith 11 Hurdles/Sprint
Sean Clarke Pole Vault

Just two recent transfers to enroll for classess
Zhane Smith - Jumps
Darius Clark Jumps

Also joining the team from Great Britain and formerly of the University of Arizona (now doing graduate work) with outdoor eligibility is Matt Treston a 400 hurdler with sub 50 potential.

Updated Men's Cross Country roster: https://12thman.com/sports/mens-cross-country/roster

Doesn't look like the Women's is updated yet.

She'll have some good training partners with Mustin and Mu.

Don't forget Charokee Young who is now a sophomore

I thought she's running 800 indoors and 400H outdoors?

She has been listed on the roster as a mid distance runner. Although she ran 400 hurdles in high school. Her times in the hurdles at high school has not been all that great (1.02.93).

Yeah. She'd have to cut that down by about 4-5 seconds to contend for points at nationals

'20-'21 track and field roster now up on 12thman website... (earliest ever posted?) New incoming frosh distance runners listed, but not other event newcomers...no new transfers listed either...upon quick look it appears most everyone is back from last year's team (did notice on men's side no multi's performer Brittan burns or hurdler Tyler Hart.

Gig 'em Aggies!

First XC meet is at LSU tomorrow morning ....

Three additional commitments

Caleb Murdock
Argyle, Texas
Pole Vault
PB - 16'/4.87m

Sam Whitmash
Brazoswood, Texas
Middle Distance
PB
800m - 151.73

Moitalel Mpoke (Kenya)
Transfer from South Plains
PB
400m - 46.32
800m - 150.72
400mH - 51.11
Attributed with a world record in the 600y - 106.93
Would be interested to see if he runs 800m or 400m hurdles at A&M

Also committed to the Aggies for the class of 2020 and currently a Freshman is
Caden Norris
Midland Christian, Texas
Mid distance
PB
800 - 152.31

Any news on the CC meet?

Ok briefly...

Arky won both the men and the women's division. Aggie women placed 5th and men placed 3rd.

SEC Preview Meet results:

https://live.pttiming.com/XC-PTT.html?mid=2023

Glad to hear, sounds like he has some potential.

Cross Country runs at home this Saturday.

The men's 8k is scheduled for 9:00 a.m., followed by the women's 6k at 9:45 a.m. Admission is FREE and spectators will be allowed, mask must be worn at all times.

Meet Information: https://aggi.es/3iBIXk5

https://12thman.com/news/2020/10/17/cross-country-aggie-men-place-third-women-fourth-in-arturo-barrios-invitational.aspx

Whatever happened to Karris Joechan? Parents are grads from in the mid- late 70's, mom was on the College Station school board, they both worked for an engineering or O&G company here in Aggieland. Used to be real good friends, but have lost track of the family.

Karis is living in Boulder, CO

Cool; hope she is well. She scored a lot of points for us over the years.

Karis was at the XC meet Saturday at TAMU while in town for a visit.

The track and field roster on the school's "Official" website now seems pretty complete as it lists 59 women and 74 men. Most, if not all frosh are now listed. There are a few athletes whose names are not listed that I expected to see. Am curious as to why they are not on list.
NOT LISTED (MEN)
Thomas Burns a 400 meter hurdle transfer from Miami who has the 2nd fastest all time high school 300 hurdle time (35.25)
Pole vaulter Sean Clarke (18'-0.50'') a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who is now enrolled in grad school and has one year of eligibility left
Infinite Tucker an outstanding intermediate hurdler with a personal best of 49.38
Caden Norris from Midland who was granted "walk-on" status after bring his 800 time this past summer to a very respectable 1:52.31

WOMEN NOT LISTED
Alicia Burnett a quick sprinter from Parkway, Missouri
Angelica Street a promising frosh javelin thrower from Montana

Also not listed are footballers Devon Achane and Demond Demis

Are they enrolled? Some of them could have opted out because of covid too?

Those enrolled are
Sean Clarke
Infinite Tucker
Caden Norris
Angellica Street

Those not listed Tamu directory are
Alicia Burnett
Thomas Burns
Katie Aldredge

Also Amanda Hansson is no longer on the roster. She probably went back to Europe
Also 400m runner Roger Ethridge is not on the roster but enrolled

Hopefully it's a mistake Clarke and Tucker can help bring in points at the National level

The roster is still being updated. Sean Clarke, thrower Luke Barrett, Caden Norris and a couple of new women athletes have been added to the roster

I see on the SEC website that we are hosting the National Championship in Indoor Track in 2024 and an Outdoor Track Regional in 2025.

I really hope we get it right in cross country in a couple of years.
We can certainly do with a couple of international runners. Many of the top teams have international runners like Arkansas, Alabama etc. Many of the tops recruits in the US will not come here and go to other school so why not recruit a few international athletes.
Our best period recently in cross country would have been when Henry Lelei was here and we even made nationals.
Having a couple of descent cross country runners also mean having a potential to score in the distance events both indoors and outdoors. One of the reasons why Arkansas is always a threat indoors and outdoors is because they can also garner huge points from the distance events couple with their usual sprint, hurdles and jumps scoring threat.
Still hopeful and looking forward to the day we can be some sort of a threat at cross country and distance events

We have never been a consistent CC program which is unfortunate. We've got the $$$ to do anything but can't seem to get there. Watching a replay of the SEC championships from this AM, and our women came in 13th. Not knocking the girls or the coaches, but that is embarrassing for a school with our resources. Watching the men running now and as you look at different shots from different camera angles you can barely see maybe one or two men in the back of the pack. We're not even close (12:05 mark). Almost to the finish, but Ole Miss goes 1-2-3 but Arky's depth wins the SEC title going 5-6-7-8-9. Our guys are beginning to trickle through now. We finished 9th with 228 pts. Don't have individual times, but again, we should be better than this.

Arkansas has a boatload of Texas distance runners. I wish they would have given us a serious look.

If we really want to get the distance program going, it needs to start now. With Athing Mu, we could get a good mile-3K runner that can train with her at 800M/mile. Then we could can get another person to slot in at 3K/5K to train with our miler and so on. Same thing on the men's side with Clay.