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"If I can bring this kind of intensity into next week, who knows what I can do?"

- ONU Senior Thomas Adam's running log comments after Saturday's Great Lakes Regional. Adam, who finished 10th at OAC just two weeks ago was an impressive 6th overall in a region loaded with quality individuals.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

O'Brien Awarded Week 2 Runner-of-the-Week

via OAC.org:

Ohio Northern senior Jimmy O’Brien (Pemberville/Eastwood) finished seventh among 156 runners at the Hanover Invitational last week. O’Brien completed the 8k course in a time of 26: 33. The team finished third of 13 teams.

Other nominees: Dan Whisler (MTU) who won his first collegiate cross country race leading Mount Union to a team win over John Carroll at Akron's Tommy Evans Invite.

Two week 2 standouts we feel also deserve attention are Baldwin-Wallace seniors Derek Hill and Nate Bowen who lead the Yellow Jackets to a 5th place team finish at Hanover with 4th and 5th place finishes overall.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jimmy O' over the BW guys? I don't get it. Did Coach T. forget to nominate? How does this happen?

Anonymous said...

I felt Whisler earned it more this week than last week. Winning the Akron Invite with 3 D1 teams competing is quite an accomplishment!

Anonymous said...

Hill definitely deserved it he had one heck of a race, and come on I believe 4th is better than 7th any day, you can't just hand out this award to an All- American. Or am I forgetting ONU is in charge of runner of the week?