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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)
https://goshockers.com/news/2024/9/7/cross-country-shocker-men-win-third-straight-jk-gold-classic.aspxLast edited by 1972Shocker; September 7, 2024, 02:55 PM.Comment
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XC Preview: Gans Creek Classic
The Wichita State cross country teams are set to race in the sixth annual Gans Creek Classic, hosted by Missouri, on Friday morning in Columbia.
The men race in the DI 8K at 8 a.m. with two Shockers running in the men's open 8K at 9:30 a.m.
The Gans Creek Classic Division I race features over 300 athletes from 36 teams, including in-state rivals Kansas and Kansas State, as well as American Athletic Conference foe Rice.
The Gans Creek Classic presents the highest level of competition for the Shockers this regular season as the Shockers look to move up in the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Rankings.
The Wichita State men, ranked 14th in the Midwest Region, will face off against three other regionally ranked teams, host Missouri (No. 8), Kansas (No. 10) and Illinois State (No. 13).
The Gans Creek Classic is the first race for the Shockers since their home opener, the JK Gold Classic on Sept. 7, where the men claimed the team title without top runner Adrian Diaz Lopez.
Diaz Lopez is set for his first race in uniform since Nov. 11, 2022, as the redshirt-junior from Cazorla, Spain redshirted the 2023 cross country and 2024 indoor and outdoor track and field seasons. He earned all-conference and all-region recognition during the 2022 cross country season and will make his season debut for the Shockers on Friday.
This meet will be the Shockers' first 8K for the men this season which is the distance that will be contested at the AAC Championships on Nov. 2.Comment
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ADL only made it through 5k of the 8k race. Whether that was by design or simply all he could do at this point I do not know.
Yared Kidane recorded top-75 finishes in a fields of over 300 at the Gans Creek Classic Friday morning in Columbia, Mo.
Kidane, a redshirt-junior from Sweden, clocked a personal-best 8K time of 24:21.1 to finish 68th out of 320 athletes.
"The first half of his race, he wasn't in it, but once he got going, he looked spectacular," Hunter said. "Once he figures things out, he's going to be a major threat, not just in middle distance track and field, but in cross country."Last edited by 1972Shocker; September 27, 2024, 05:22 PM.Comment
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ADL only made it through 5k of the 8k race. Whether that was by design or simply all he could do at this point I do not know.
Any other AAC schools compete?
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The only other AAC team in this meet was Rice. They finished 16th. Tulsa is the class of the AAC because of they way they utilize their scholarships. That may change in the future in light of the new massively expanded scholarship limits which, of course, will favor those program with the deepest pockets.Originally posted by atlwsu View PostComment
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Rainbolt Announces Addition of Farmer to Coaching Staff
Wichita State head track and field coach Steve Rainbolt announced the addition of Josh Farmer to his coaching staff as an assistant coach.
Farmer joins the Shockers after graduating from UC Irvine, where he was a three-time decathlon All-American and the 2024 Big West decathlon champion. (His PR in the decathlon is 7,703. More than solid.)
"I'm really excited to have a jack-of-all-trades on our coaching staff, who can help in a variety of areas around the team," Rainbolt said.
The San Diego, Calif. native placed 14th at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials and competed for Team USA in its victory over Germany in the 2024 Thorpe Cup, the annual international decathlon and heptathlon competition between the two nations.
"His main focus will be helping me with a large group of multi-eventers, but he could step in and help us all over the track and the field," Rainbolt said. "He comes with a great track and field pedigree, and I'm confident he's going to be a terrific addition to our coaching staff and be a great asset for the athletes on our team."
Farmer comes with a strong track and field family background as his father, Matt, was a three-time Big West decathlon champion at UC Irvine, his mother, Kristin Harkins, was an All-American in the 1500m at Cal Poly Pomona, and his grandfather, Dixon, was an NCAA champion in the 440 hurdles at Occidental College and went on to coach at his alma mater, Michigan, Washington and San Diego State.
He earned two bachelor's degrees from UC Irvine, one in education sciences and the other in anthropology, and a master's degree in demographic and social analysis.
Coach Bolt could probably use some help with his large group of multi-athletes. Josh's resume is pretty impressive. Seems like a high achiever.Comment
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Go Shockers - Shockers Welcome 34 Newcomers to the Track
There's info on each memberThe Wichita State track and field 2023-24 signing class has hit the track at Cessna Stadium for fall training and looks to make a strong impact on the team's success this season.
"We had a heck of a nice recruiting year on the men's side, and it's going to really bolster our men's team, which we were already excited about," Director of Track and Field/Cross Country Steve Rainbolt said. "And we improved ourselves on the women's side. Our team is on an upward trajectory and is continuing to rebuild back to the top of the conference."
Wichita State signed 34 new student-athletes throughout the 2023-24 recruiting season, including five distance/mid-distance runners, five multi-event athletes, nine throwers, five pole vaulters, three sprinters/hurdlers and seven jumpers.
"We really feel like this turned out to be a nice group of newcomers, and we're excited to see the impact they have on Shocker track and field," Rainbolt said.
The Shockers welcome talent from nine different states and three countries, including 13 in-state recruits and three of Canada's top secondary school athletes, Cailey Freeze, Jett Hasiuk and Chairo Ogbebor. Ogbebor won the 2024 New Balance Indoor Nationals long jump competition, Hasiuk claimed the Alberta Provincial U18 record in the 400 meters with a time of 47.42 and competed for Team Canada at the U18 Commonwealth Games, and Freeze finished eighth in the 800 meters at the 2024 Canadian U20 Championships.
The incoming class also includes 10 high school state champions and a few of the top athletes in the nation in their respective events.
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