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Shocks hosting this year's AAC Championships at the Clapp Cross Country Course.
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Shocks hosting this year's AAC Championships at the Clapp Cross Country Course.
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Squad just keeps getting better and better! Join us in welcoming the Canadian U20 Long Jump Champion, Chairo Ogbebor, to the Shocker family!
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Looks like a young man who really hits the weight and conditioning work with a vengeance.
Recruiting profile: https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-trac...chairo-ogbebor
100M: 10.57
200M: 21.90
60M: 6.89
Long Jump: 7.49m (Approximately 24-7)
Top marks for the Shocks in 2023-24:
100M: 10.67 (Fr. Josh Parrish)
200M: 22.20 (So. Trace Spires)
60M: 6.82 (Jr. Jaleel Montgomery)
Long Jump: 7.94 (26-0.75) (Fr. Josh Parrish)
Looks like he is already right their with Josh.
So I am presuming he will square off against Josh in the U20 World Championships in Peru in August. Looking forward to that. 2 Shockers in the same event at the U20 World Championships!
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That'd be insane!
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That 7.94 LJ seems to be a ridiculous number. Only 7 men at the US Olympic Trials cleared that distance. 26'11" (8.20) wins the Trials and the Olympic standard is 8.27 (clearly LJ is not the strongest event for the USA right now), although only 10 men have the standard this year (8.28-8.65) with the WR standing for 32 years and counting at 8.95 by Mike Powell.Originally posted by 1972Shocker View Post
Hopefully Josh can stay healthy and be pushed by Chairo so they can both be at or near the top of the LJ world in the coming seasons.
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Nice looking togs Josh is sporting.
I am not seeing incoming freshman Chairo Ogbebor of Canada on the Entry LIst so I guess he will not be at this event.
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Parrish Places 22nd at World U20 Championships
ichita State's Josh Parrish represented Team U.S.A. in the long jump at the World Athletics U20 Championships Thursday afternoon in Lima, Peru, placing 22nd.
The Shocker sophomore jumped 7.21m/23'7.75" in the first round of the long jump competition to take 22nd overall. Parrish is the first Wichita State student-athlete since Taran Taylor and Rayvon Allen in 2017 to qualify to the World U20 Championships.
Not a terrible effort by Josh. That would have been his 2nd best jump of his 6 meets during his indoor freshman season but it would have been his worst jump of his 6 meets during his outdoor freshman season. Looking forward to seeing many better days as a Shocker over the next 3 years especially as he matures.
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U.S.A.!
U.S.A.!
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The Shockers open their XC season hosting the JK Gold Classic at their home course, L.W. Clapp Memorial Park. Technically, the opened the season last weekend at the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic in Hutch but that was essentially a JV event as none of the Shockers top runners participated in that meet.The college men's race is at 8 a.m. Weather is looking great tomorrow morning for an XC race.
WSU's men's team must replace its top four runners from last season's AAC meet, including Jackson Caldwell, who finished 15th and set the school's 8-kilometer record at 23:31.7.
Adrian Diaz Lopez, who redshirted last season, finished ninth in the AAC meet in 2022. Hunter said junior Riley Vandaveer has impressed with his fitness this fall.
Yared Kidane will be making his Shocker debut in this race although he is more of a middle distance guy.
RH: 800 Runner Adds to His Depth over Past Year
Kidane, a junior from Sweden, ran unattached in 2023-24 while ineligible to compete for WSU. That start to his Shocker career challenged him, as did the adjustment to a new school. Once settled in, he used that time to become a more well-round runner. His specialty is the 800 meters – he won four races unattached last spring – and he improved his times over longer distances over the past year.
Last year, he trained with Wichita State's milers. His range, coach Kirk Hunter says, makes him a candidate for WSU's 1,600-meter relay team in the spring. Kidane owns a top time of 1 minute, 48.75 seconds in the 800 last spring at the KU Relays.
"He's a guy that's incredibly fast," Hunter said. "On the other side of it, we can do workouts of 10 miles that are very fast, and he will lead them. He has the endurance to be able to do stuff like that. It's a unique situation when you've got an 800 guy that does that."
Hunter convinced Kidane, a transfer from Iowa Central Community College, that training long distances would add to his strength without limiting his speed. In junior college, he placed 13th (2021) and 19th (2022) in the NJCAA cross country meet. In the 2022 NJCAA outdoor meet, he placed third in the 1,500 (3:57.28) and 26th in the 800 (1:58.61).
"Once he got into the workouts, working with coach (Adam) Moore, he found he was stronger than he's ever been," Hunter said. "He found out he could hold his speed longer. Everything was coming together."
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Typically the JK Gold Classic only attracts a variety of D-II, NAIA, and JUCO teams. In the womens' 5k perennial AAC Champion Tulsa along fellow AAC member North Texas participated as did the North Texas men, but the Tulsa men did not make the trip. I assume that was largely, if not exclusively, because this years AAC Championships will be held at Clapp Park. Hopefully, they will find the meet to their liking and return in the future.
Adrian Diaz-Lopez either did not start, or if he did, did not finish the race for the Shocks. ADL did not compete in XC or Indoor Track for the Shocks last year. He tried to run a 5k and a 10k this past April in the outdoor season but did not finish either of those races. I am not sure what is going on with him but perhaps whatever it is is not resolved yet.
Yared Kidane, the redshirt-junior from Eskilstuna, Sweden, finished third behind Colby CC's Sibonelo Khumalo and unattached Shocker Adam Rzentkowski, who has exhausted his cross country eligibility but remains with the team to compete in uniform during the track and field season.
Kidane improved on his previous 6K personal best by 47 seconds, running 18:13.28 in his Shocker debut.
"That was a really good race considering he hasn't been training very long," head coach Kirk Hunter said.
Kidane had a long summer of racing for his country, most notably finishing sixth in the 800 meters at the Swedish Championships.
"He's not fit yet, and for him to open up that way with the best opener of his life, that guy's going to be really good," Hunter said. "He's a talent."
Wichita State will have three weeks of training before returning to competition for the Gans Creek Classic on Friday, Sept. 27 in Columbia, Mo.
Final Standings
1. Wichita State 46 (2-9-10-12-13) The Shocks margin of victory clearly came at the #5 finisher spot.
2. North Texas 73 (6-7-8-11-41)
3. Washburn 82 (4-15-18-19-26)
4. Fort Hays St. 116 (5-22-25-31-33)
5. Colby CC 138 (1-3-28-32-74)
6. Emporia St. 184 (23-24-34-49-54)
7. Newman 205 (14-21-46-57-67)
8. Rockhurst 207 (29-38-43-47-50)
9. Friends 224 (35-40-44-52-53)
10. Cowley College 255 (20-42-58-64-71)
11. Cloud County CC 266 (39-45-48-66-68)
12. Bethel (Kan.) 329 (51-59-69-70-80)
13. Hesston 376 (65-75-77-78-81)
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