Meet: John Thomas Terrier Classic
Date: January 30-31
Time: 3pm - Women (Friday), Men (Saturday) Location: Boston University Track - Boston Massachusetts
Streaming: FloTrack ($)
Other Teams Competing: New Mexico, BYU, Stanford, Tennessee, Colorado, Tulane, Arizona, Eastern Kentucky, PRO runners…

Start Lists: Women: https://lancertiming.com/BU/BU_Terrier_WOMEN_Seeded_Events.pdf

Men: https://lancertiming.com/BU/BU_Terrier_MEN_Seeded_Events.pdf

Live Results: https://lancer.trackscoreboard.com/meets/437/events


Meet Preview
Distance Distance Distance! It's all about distance squad this weekend as they make the trek up to Massachusetts to compete at Boston University. Pros and many of the top distance runners in the NCAA will meet here at the distance friendly track which sees a lot of PR's and fast times.

Last season our distance squad travelled to Boston and came away with some huge performances. Cooper Cawthra destroyed his own Aggie School Record with a 3:54 mile. Diego Heredia and Luca Santorum ran 4:02 miles. Jack Johnston and Jonathan Chung ran pb's in the 5000. Debora Cherono ran a huge 4:38 mile breaking the school record, Elise Smoot ran a 4:47. Meanwhile Megan Roberts and Kennady Fontenot ran huge pb's in the 5000 as well.

This season the Aggies head to Boston with new faces including one set to make their Aggie track debut, Michael Kiplagat Moiben who is set to make his NCAA and Aggie debut in the 5000. The talented runner from Kenya enrolled in January and I can't wait to see what he does for us. Joyce Kemboi, the UTEP transfer who SHINED for us in cross country will be competing in the elite 5000 along with Megan Roberts. Jack Johnston will join Moiben in the 5k as well.

Unfortunately Luca Santorum's name has been scratched from the start list, but we'll still have Youssef Asslouj set to the run his first mile in the maroon and white. Joining him in that mile race will be Diego Heredia, Ondrej Gajdos, and Carter Gordy. The women's mile will include Aggie record holder Debora Cherono, talented senior Elise Smoot, and super star freshman Sophia Bendet. Emma Little will race the 3000 on her own.

The competition in this meet will be insane. The meet is seeded based on Pr's and will have elite divisions and an open division. The first heats will be the fastest and so on. Cherono will be in the elite division in the mile, in the second heat. Smoot and Bendet will be in the first and second heat of the open mile. Roberts and Kemboi will be in the elite 5000. Asslouj will be in the first heat of the open mile. Johnston and Moiben will be in the first heat of the 5k as well. There will be countless professional runners from many different countries, as well as some of the top collegians. Schools like Stanford, Colorado, BYU, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Iowa State will be competing. The competition will be great!

Last year while our distance squad headed to Boston, the rest of the Aggies competed in New Mexico. This year it'll be an off week for sour sprinters and field eventers. It'll be a good week to get healthy and get stronger before a busy month of February which is sure to bring big performances!

This weekend all eyes will be on our fantastic distance crew. We have a strong group led by coaches McRaven and Abell. I expect some huge times, and some school records to be broken. Stay tuned this weekend and I'll keep you updated!! Our distance squad will deliver!

Our full team will be back in action at home next weekend for a two day meet which includes the pentathlon and heptathlon Friday and Saturday!

It's streaming on Flotrack.

At that price, I'll never give them my money

Michael Kiplagat Moiben

24 year old freshman from Kenya

Oh dang, didn't know his age

LOL Ja'Qualon Scott posted that Arkansas denied him entry into the meet… they're scared

I'm blanking, can you expand on the Schulman story? But I feel you, can't wait to win nationals at their place this year!!!!

Having an off week in the middle of the season is a little interesting, hopefully we can do good from it and put on some great performances!!

They DQ'd him at regionals when it was Schulman that was tripped. Officials reinstated him. Then he was re-DQ'd. No explanation why.

Video was clear. Officials made a public decision then 'changed their mind'. The person that got bumped into the next round? An Arkansas runner.

Oh yeah, you are absolutely right, can't believe I forgot about that

Absolutely wild times for this early in the year! Wow wow wow!

With our firepower in the 400, Solovev in the pole vault, Ja'Qualon Scott in the 60 hurdles, the 4x400, now if we can get points in the 800 that would be huge! I would love to see points in a DMR and possibly some jumps! Could be huge for us

Women Mile

Elise Smoot - 4:40
Sophia Bendet - 4:43

Those are amazing mile times for this time of year! Awesome!

Cherono will run in the mile invite at 3:15

There's some huge meets going on this weekend at Arkansas and Clemson

DEBORA CHERONO BREAKS HER SCHOOL MILE RECORD!!

4:36.34

Her first mile race last year was a 4:50

16:00 for Joyce Kemboi and 16:10 for Megan Roberts in the 5000. A top group broke away and our girls weren't in it.

That was the first 5k for Kemboi indoors in 2 years where her PR is 15:43. Roberts 2 seconds off her PR

9:37 for Emma Little, a slight PR in the 3000

At the Louisville meet, Scott went 7.65 in the 60 hurdle prelims. Wonder why he's running but let's hope he goes 7.58 or better in the finals

ONDREJ GAJDOS BREAKS 4 MINUTES IN THE MILE

3:58

45.71 opening leg for the men! They're going against South Florida who beat us last year outdoors at nationals

46.1 second leg

45.6 3rd leg

Not sure who tan what legs but that's a great time! We'll see how the meet at Arkansas goes later to see if that stands as number 1

At Arkansas, Florida men ran 3:04.04 for the win.

Look Out Below said:

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ABOUT TIME.

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that puts 4 current Aggies on the roster who have broken 4

Luca Santorum - 3:56
Ondrej Gajdos - 3:58
Youssef Asslouj - 3:59
Reece Sharman-Newell - 3:59