Admin (Garrett Zatlin)
Oct 5, 202221 min
NOTE: Theses rankings are based on how an individual fares throughout the entirety of a season, not just how they ran at the NCAA XC Championships.
Was not ranked in our last update.
First number indicates how much the athlete has moved in the rankings.
The second number indicates where the athlete was ranked in our last update.
This is more of a "We have no idea how to rank you, so we're putting you at our last spot" ranking rather than a "We definitely know that you're the 50th-best runner in the country" kind of ranking.
Aden Smith's 5k personal best currently sits at 15:00. However, the Michigan State ace was 3rd at the MSU Spartan Invitational and later won the Griak Invitational over a handful of really solid names, including the entire Wisconsin team.
We still need to see more from Smith moving forward, but it's undeniable that he has made a massive jump up in his fitness. Long-term, that's a big deal for a Michigan State team that has a few sneaky-good pieces.
Marcelo Rocha has recorded two DNF results so far this fall. Those were also his first two races since running 13:42 (5k) back in December of last year.
No one is doubting that George Kusche is one of the most talented distance runners in the NCAA, but an 86th place finish for the 2021 cross country All-American at the Cowboy Jamboree wasn't good...at all.
Kusche has a history of inconsistency and his most recent race certainly didn't help his stock. However, he stays in our rankings simply because of his past success. There's a good chance that he rebounds in a major way for his next race (we think).
After an excellent outdoor track season, one that ended with Anderson running personal bests of 13:37 (5k) and 28:54 (10k), we just wanted to see this North Carolina ace translate his spring-time success to the grass before we make any major decisions about him.
And while the Paul Short Invitational wasn't necessarily as loaded as the Cowboy Jamboree or the Joe Piane Invitational, snagging a runner-up finish over of a handful of really solid distance runners is still a great validation of Anderson's talent.
We'll still need to see more from him over the rest of the season, but he is very clearly going to be UNC's second low-stick this fall (as expected).
A 32nd place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree isn't necessarily bad, but with fellow teammates Cormac Dalton and Michael Power finishing in the top-20 of that same race, Akers certainly left us wanting more.
Admittedly, Akers' greatest result was a monster 19th place finish at the NCAA Winter XC Championships a year and a half ago. And while a few of his other cross country results have been solid, we need to see him return to that All-American-caliber level if he wants to stay within our rankings.
An 80th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree is a tough outing for a guy who is clearly so darn talented, but continues to struggle with consistency.
On paper, Garnica has the potential to be an All-American, but his cross country performances have been very up and down over his career. While track times of 13:26 (5k) and 28:19 (10k) suggest that he's one of the best distance runners in the nation, there's not nearly the same evidence on his cross country resume.
Garnica sticks around in our rankings for now, but we'll need to see a great statement race from him at Nuttycombe if he wants to stay in our top-50.
Austin Vancil has not yet raced this season.
After missing the latter-half of the 2021 cross country season with an injury, Guermali has returned to Gonzaga's lineup as a true low-stick. That's a big deal considering that James Mwaura didn't race at the Cowboy Jamboree and because teammate Wil Smith didn't have a great race.
Guermali's 15th place finish in Stillwater, Oklahoma two weekends ago won't capture any national headlines, but it's still a really solid result which gives the Bulldogs another true low-stick next to Mwaura when he returns.
We've also seen past results from Guermali where he's shown potential as a true front-runner, so it's not like this result came out of the blue. We just need him to build his resume even further before we rank him any higher.
Hasty recorded an unsurprising 4th place finish at the George Kyte Invitational, a simple rust-buster that was swept by his teammates. He was held out of the Cowboy Jamboree along with a few other teammates.
A 74th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree was straight-up not good for Cole Bullock, but he probably knows that. Despite the unimpressive result, this Ole Miss veteran is simply too accomplished to let one sub-par race oust him from our rankings.
Remember, this is a guy who ran 13:39 (5k) this past spring, qualified for the outdoor national meet during the same season and was an 18th place All-American at the NCAA Winter XC Championships.
That winter cross country All-American honor is a slight outlier on his resume, but Bullock is still a top-50 talent even after his performance in Stillwater. He'll need to be much better moving forward, but we're not going to hit the panic button just yet.
Gosh, it's so hard to properly rank guys like Abdirizak Ibrahim.
The New Mexico ace has a history of producing fine, but underwhelming, regular season cross country results before going into the postseason and earning two All-American honors. And after placing 81st at the Joe Piane Invitational, it looks like it's going to be more of the same from this Lobo star in 2022.
Ibrahim is a super underrated name, but he's a very unpredictable runner as far as his results are concerned. It's hard to simply dismiss a two-time cross country All-American from our rankings when we know that he peaks in the postseason, but we'll need to see a little bit more from him before championship racing begins.
An 18th place finish at the Joe Piane Invitational certainly leaves greater room for improvement if you're Matthew Carmody, but it was hardly a poor race, either.
Carmody had a massive breakout year on the track this past winter and spring. We know that he can be a true ace for this team when he's at his best.
While this most recent result doesn't necessarily put him in that true low-stick conversation, we're not just going to dismiss someone from our rankings because of a September-time race that wasn't even that bad.
A 10th place finish at the Joe Piane Invitational was really great validation for a guy who had a huge breakout year during the winter and spring track seasons. Berry was also an "Honorable Mention" name in our preseason list and had a few highly respectable cross country performances on his resume from his time at Princeton.
Placing Berry at TSR #38 admittedly feels high. While his recent personal bests of 7:56 (3k), 13:37 (5k) and 28:55 (10k) certainly catch your attention, it still feels like he needs to prove himself a bit more before cracking our top-40.
But when you look at how a few other names have raced and how big of a jump a few other names made in this update, we couldn't help but put Berry in our top-40. Relative to everyone else who was considered (but didn't get it), he's the most deserving.
An 18th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree is roughly in-line with our expectations for Michael Power. Sure, we thought he could have been closer to a top-15 finisher in that field, but it's not necessarily a poor performance, either.
Power will need to offer more of a scoring spark in future races if he wants to stay inside our top-40, but for now, this is a solid result that will allow him to stay in this portion of our rankings.
No one will ever say that a 23rd place finish at Joe Piane is a bad performance (because it's not). However, for an 8:18 steeplechaser and one of the most versatile runners in the country last winter and spring, it's not necessarily a great result, either.
Hamilton stays in our rankings simply because he was ranked so highly to begin with and because we believe that there is still greater low-stick scoring potency within him. However, he'll need to build upon his most recent result by a good bit if he wants to stick around in our top-50.
Sam Gilman's 28th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree has me shrugging my shoulders and saying, "meh".
It's certainly not a poor performance, but that result certainly doesn't excite us in any major way and we certainly want more from Gilman moving forward.
At the same time, this Air Force veteran is someone who has run 7:47 for 3000 meters, 13:25 for 5000 meters, was a 5th place All-American in the 5k this past spring and was a cross country All-American last fall after an unexciting regular season.
Historically speaking, Gilman is really good at peaking for the postseason. And while his Cowboy Jamboree performance was far from perfect, it also wasn't terrible.
There's a chance that he falls out of our rankings later this season but then comes back in a major way with a few great championship efforts.
After an outstanding outdoor track season, one where Las Heras ran 13:38 (5k) and 28:13 (10k), the latter time coming en route to a win at the Raleigh Relays, the Wake Forest star showed us that he can, in fact, translate his track success to the grass.
A 14th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree is a big performance for a guy who was likely viewed as the potential second low-stick that Wake Forest needed to next to Zach Facioni. And when you look at the men who actually beat him in Stillwater a couple of weekends ago, almost none of them (except Joey Nokes) came as a surprise.
It looks like Las Heras has kept his momentum going from the spring and that's a big deal. For that reason, he makes a pretty major jump to our TSR #34 spot.
He may be falling backwards in our rankings, but don't be mistaken, Barry Keane still ran very well at the Joe Piane Invitational this past weekend.
The Butler veteran admittedly had a tough rust-buster outing at the Penn State Spiked Shoe Invitational earlier this year, but it's clear that the battle in South Bend was the priority for him and his team.
There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that Keane is one of the best distance runners in the country. However, his cross country performances have been very up and down and it's shocking that he has not yet earned an All-American honor in any season.
If Keane simply develops greater consistency this fall, then that could all change. And with a top-10 result at one of the biggest meets of the year now under his belt, this Butler star may have a promising starting point for a season that could turn out to be his best yet.
Coming into this season, we knew that Ian Shanklin had the talent to be a top-50 runner. However, after remaining absent from the 2021 fall cross country season and not quite reaching his same peaks on the track that we had seen from him in the past, we had questions as to how he would rebound this fall (if at all).
Of course, as it turned out, we were just way too cautious with Shanklin. The NC State veteran produced a monster 7th place finish at Joe Piane, taking down numerous top-ranked names and looking closer to his old self compared to a few of his recent races.
If Shanklin simply continues to throw down these kind of results throughout the rest of the season, then he'll almost certainly capture a spot in our top-30. Consistency has largely never been an issue for him and we just needed to see him produce a result like this after being on the sidelines last fall.
I honestly couldn't believe that we were ranking Joey Nokes at TSR #31, but when you step back and look at how a few recent names have performed, and who he beat at the Cowboy Jamboree, it's hard to think that he should be ranked elsewhere.
A 10th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree is monumental. Not just for Nokes who posted an All-American-caliber result, but also for BYU who looks like they have another true low-stick in their arsenal -- a development that effectively puts the Cougars in the national title hunt.
If this result was the only major performance on Nokes' resume, then he certainly wouldn't be ranked this high. But after running 28:37 for 10,000 meters this past spring, it's clear that his most recent race wasn't at all a fluke.
We figured that Hillary Cheruiyot was eventually going to crack our top-50 rankings, but we a) didn't think it would be by this much this soon and we b) just didn't have enough to work with on his resume to give him a preseason spot.
But a 6th place finish at the Joe Piane Invitational gives Cheruiyot a well-rounded resume that, at this point in his still-young career, is just impossible to ignore. Coming into this season, he rarely had poor races, made promising improvements and clearly made a jump upwards in his fitness.
And with a true high-octane result at a large invitational, taking down the likes of Shanklin, Jacobs, Keane and Berry, we don't really have any reason to dislike Cheruiyot.
A 44th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree would usually be a cause for concern when ranking most runners, but is anyone actually worried about how strong Facioni will be this fall?
We certainly aren't.
Facioni was excellent on the track (yet again) this past spring and he was a top-tier cross country All-American last fall. While he does tumble down our rankings following his most recent result in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this is probably as far as we're willing to drop him.
This Wake Forest veteran will almost certainly be better in future races.
My fellow podcast host, Ben Weisel, was very high on Fearghal Curtin coming into this season. The former Charleston Southern ace was very solid on the grass last fall, but even better on the track the following spring, running times of 13:35 (5k) and 28:25 (10k).
However, I simply needed to see more from Curtin. While he was very clearly a better runner on the outdoor oval than he was on the grass last fall, his 2021 fall cross country season didn't reflect the same upper-echelon firepower that you would hope to have in a top-30 runner.
But Curtin proved that he was, in fact, one of the most elite distance runners in the country this past weekend. His monster 5th place finish at the Joe Piane Invitational validated the success that he had this past spring and it was the first time in his career where he took down numerous top-tier talents on the grass at once.
Not only that, but this ultra-fast course favored a lot of the men who finished ahead of him. If he can simply replicate this kind of performance and take advantage of a hillier course in future races, then Curtin would be a dangerous runner to toe the line against.
For most people, Graham Blanks' 13th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree won't be a surprise. However, we like this performance quite a bit. While the Harvard ace was an outstanding 23rd place All-American last fall, his 2021 fall regular season wasn't quite as strong as what his national meet performance suggested.
But one could argue that Blanks' Cowboy Jamboree result was the best regular season performance of his still-young career. He also took home a win at the Harvard vs Yale vs Princeton tri-meet, so momentum is clearly on his side.
We'll be curious to see how he fares throughout October, but this Harvard star has left us very encouraged from what we've seen from him so far.
A 12th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree seems about right for Cormac Dalton. Yes, we are moving this Tulsa ace up our rankings quite a bit, but that's more because other men struggled and because Dalton simply met expectations.
It was also nice to see Dalton record a marquee finish in a loaded field outside of his lone All-American result from last fall. That 12th place finish effectively brings greater consistency of quality results to his resume that wasn't there before.
Shea Foster has not yet raced this season.
What a HUGE result for Yaseen Abdalla!
The Texas-turned-Tennessee star proved to be a very strong runner for the Longhorns last fall, but his 32nd place All-American finish at the 2021 NCAA Fall XC Championships was clearly the best result of his season (by a lot).
And while Abdalla did go on to have a massive breakout year on the track, we still wanted to see a bit more from him on the grass in terms of season-long consistency and national-caliber firepower.
Well, the Joe Piane Invitational was certainly the perfect venue for him to answer our calls. Abdalla's 4th place finish allowed him to take down numerous upper-tier names while adding far greater value to his overall cross country resume.
In theory, the Notre Dame course (which is as flat as it can be) heavily favors the track-centric turnover of guys like Abdalla and a few other names. If he can also thrive on a different course, then this Volunteer star will almost definitely jump into our top-20...and maybe even our top-15.
Wow. What a race by Nickolas Scudder. He thrived at Joe Piane last year, but year's edition of the same meet was far stronger and far deeper.
Landing a runner-up result in South Bend last Friday was monumental. While Scudder has posted solid results before, this was easily the best race of his career. He upset numerous top-ranked men and clearly carried over his momentum from the spring to the grass.
There's an argument that Scudder should be ranked higher, or at least ahead of every guy that he beat during Friday's race. But this is also someone who failed to qualify for the national meet individually last fall. And when you consider how big of a jump he's already making, a TSR #23 ranking feels like it rewards him plenty.
If Scudder had only beaten one or two ranked men on Friday, then this ranking wouldn't be nearly as high it is. But taking down this many men on such a big stage simply isn't a fluke. And when you look at the men behind him, it's hard to say that they should be ranked ahead of Scudder after his most recent effort.
The only race that Patrick Kiprop has toed the line for this fall was the Chile Pepper XC Festival this past weekend. And while he certainly didn't run poorly, we were a bit surprised to see him lose to Colby CC's Sanele Masondo.
We admittedly don't know much about Masondo other than he's a highly accomplished JUCO talent. But despite his accolades, his resume pales in comparison to Kiprop, so it was admittedly a bit surprising to see this Razorback ace fall to runner-up this past weekend.
We'll wait to see Kiprop in a larger and more competitive meet in the future before we make any major decisions about his ranking. For now, he'll sit at TSR #22.
What a monumental race by Andrew Kent! We knew that this Colorado star was due for a breakout season after running 13:29 (5k) and 28:15 (10k) this past spring, but finishing 8th in an ultra-loaded Cowboy Jamboree field is beyond impressive.
It's getting harder and harder to dislike Kent. He's gone from showing promise, to delivering great results in ideal settings, to actually taking down elite-caliber names.
Year-long momentum continues to drive Kent to new heights in 2022. We do need to see him establish greater cross country consistency at this level before we rank him even higher, but this was a tremendous performance that gives the Buffaloes a potential top-20 All-American this fall that we weren't sure if they were going to have coming into this season.
A 6th place finish at the Griak Invitational isn't necessarily bad, but it is an admittedly underwhelming result for a guy who was once ranked at TSR #14.
Even so, I'm not putting a ton of stock in that Griak race. The goal for Wisconsin was likely to secure a comfortable win and run as a pack. And for the most part, they did just that.
Would it have been nice to see Liking take home the win like we expected him to? Yes, definitely, but I have a feeling that his effort at the Griak Invitational wasn't him racing at his full potential.
For now, he slides down TSR #20, but expect him to potentially rise in the coming weeks.
James Mwaura has not yet raced this season.
Brian Fay has not yet raced this season.
What a huge race for Eliud Kipsang. He was solid throughout last fall and pretty consistent for most of the 2021 cross country season. However, his win at the 2021 SEC XC Championships was a good glimpse into what his true potential on the grass could be.
And after a monster year on the track, where he ran 3:33 for 1500 meters, Kipsang's 3rd place finish at Joe Piane last weekend feels like an extension of the firepower that he showed during the winter and spring months.
Kipsang has typically been very good on the grass, maybe even great, but this is arguably the best cross country result of his career and it puts him closer to the elite tier than not. We do believe that the super flat Joe Piane course favors someone with his skillset, so we'll be fascinated to see how he performs at a different venue in the coming weeks.
He's only raced once this season, but his win at Paul Short was super impressive. Sure, his competition this past weekend wasn't nearly as intensive as what we saw at Joe Piane, but the field was fairly underrated and he also snagged a course record.
While it's true that we don't put a big emphasis on times during NCAA cross country (almost none at all, although high school is a little different), we should reward Wolfe for taking down a course record that was once held by Sam Chelanga.
And if you don't know who that is, then you may want to glance at this article that we wrote in the spring of 2020.
An 11th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree seems about right.
Allen has built a reputation of being one of the best postseason cross country runners in the NCAA and his performances on the oval this past year suggested that we would see greater consistency from him this fall.
And sure enough, that's exactly what happened.
While this is certainly the best regular season result of his career, Allen beat who he should have and lost to who he should have...I don't really have much more to say other than that.
My goodness, what an unbelievable race from Victor Shitsama!
The Oklahoma State star was clearly an accomplished runner coming into this season. He's been a two-time cross country All-American (finishing 29th and 34th) and even posted recent marks of 8:45 (steeple) and 28:51 (10k) on the track this past year.
While this Cowboy veteran has always been solid leading up to the cross country national meet, none of his regular season results (or even his national meet results) have come anywhere close to what he showed us at the Cowboy Jamboree.
A 3rd place finish on his home course two weekends ago, which allowed him to take down a handful of possible title contenders, absolutely stunned us. Shitsama has always been good, but he's never been this good.
The Oklahoma State star is getting a heavy boost to our TSR #14 spot, but we're going to hold him out of our top-10 for the time-being until we see another result of this caliber again.
Isai Rodriguez has not yet raced this season.
A somewhat comfortable victory at the Bill Dellinger Invitational is hardly a surprise. We'll wait until Bienenfeld's next major race to see what he can do against elite competition.
A 9th place finish at Cowboy Jamboree wasn't bad, but Drew Bosley likely had the potential to be a couple spots better in Stillwater, Oklahoma to weeks ago.
Even so, it's hard to take away too much from that result. Bosley is still going to be a problem for his competitors this fall and there's a good chance that he'll be even better as the season progresses.
Haftu Strintzos has not yet raced this season outside of a simple rust-buster at Lehigh where he swept the top-five spots with his teammates.
The defending 10k national champion didn't have his best season debut ever at the Joe Piane Invitational this past weekend. While his 8th place finish was by no means bad, it still wasn't a great result for a guy who was in contention to potentially win this whole race.
Even so, Coach Sean Carlson is a guy who has rarely puts too much emphasis on early-season results and instead focuses on peaking for championship races. While Jacobs does fall back a bit in our rankings, suggesting that he's not a top-10 runner this fall feels silly after just one race.
Ky Robinson has not yet raced this season.
Seeing Casey Clinger earn a 7th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree may have been then least surprising result of the season so far.
He's clearly an elite distance talent, but he's not quite in the national title conversation (yet). But Clinger's consistency is what makes him such a valuable runner. If he continues to run at this level (and we think he will), then that's all BYU needs to stay in the national title conversation.
One could argue that this may be one of the best results that Acer Iverson has ever produced. He was a strong distance talent on the grass last fall, but his regular season results weren't necessarily jaw-dropping and his 40th place All-American finish didn't suggest that he was going to be a megastar.
Yes, he ran great times of 13:28 (5k) and 28:23 (10k) on the track this past spring, but there are plenty of men who had breakout years on the track and who aren't ranked this highly.
That's because Iverson surpassed expectations in a massive way by placing 6th at the Cowboy Jamboree two weekends ago. He was able to take down Casey Clinger, as well as a few others, in the process.
Iverson gets a massive bump mainly because his regular season cross country results were probably the "weakest" part of his resume coming into this fall (even though they were still pretty good).
Extending, and building upon, his success from the spring months is highly encouraging to see as well and another major reason why he skyrockets up our rankings.
Kiprop's original ranking of TSR #18 felt like minor robbery when we were doing our preseason list. But a DNF at the 2021 fall cross country national meet had to counterbalance his 3rd place finish at Pre-Nationals from last year.
But Kiprop likely secured the biggest victory of his career last Friday as he took down numerous men at Joe Piane en route to a major win. He took home the win over 12 men who were either once ranked, are newly ranked or are still ranked.
National meet success is truthfully the only thing that has eluded Kiprop so far in his very young NCAA career. It will be tough to improve upon his ranking until the national meet, and he may even falter as new names are brought into our top-10.
However, our TSR #5 ranking was given to him with all of that in mind. Because at the end of the day, when you take down the field that he did, you deserve a top-five ranking.
A 5th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree wasn't too surprising for Nico Young. Yes, he was upset by Victor Shitsama, but no one was expecting the Oklahoma State ace to have the race that he did two weekends ago.
For a mid-September race, it's hard to really pull anything away from this result. It's roughly about what we expected.
I don't think Nico Young can be viewed as the individual national title favorite (for now), but I think he can certainly be categorized as one of the individual national title contenders. And I think that's appropriately reflected in his TSR #4 ranking.
A 4th place finish at the Cowboy Jamboree was probably one of the better regular season results that we have ever seen from Cole Sprout...but it's also not that surprising.
The Stanford star had an incredible year on the track and proved to be a metronomic All-American around the oval during both the winter and spring months. Beating Nico Young was a really nice bonus from this race and one could argue that he has just as much year-long momentum as Young does right now.
We're lumping these two individuals together, mainly because their respective rankings are so highly dependent on each other.
How do you handle this ranking situation?
Charles Hicks was originally ranked at TSR #2 and has a history of being the better cross country runner. Alex Maier, meanwhile, struggled at his most recent cross country national meet and indoor national meet. However, he was the 10k runner-up at the outdoor national meet last spring and just beat Hicks (in Stillwater) at the Cowboy Jamboree.
Hicks, on paper, has the better cross country resume, but if that's our entire basis for these rankings, then Maier likely wouldn't have a chance to knock Hicks out of our TSR #1 until the national meet in November (assuming both men race up to our expectations until then).
And how would that be fair for a guy who just took home a massive win in what may be the most competitive meet of the year?
We don't know for sure who should be ranked at TSR #1, but Maier feels like the most right answer...for now.
Aden Smith (Michigan State)
Patrick Anderson (North Carolina)
Yacine Guermali (Gonzaga)
Kevin Berry (Notre Dame)
Aaron Las Heras (Wake Forest)
Ian Shanklin (NC State)
Joey Nokes (BYU)
Hillary Cheruiyot (Alabama)
Ed Trippas (Washington)
Wil Smith (Gonzaga)
Ahmed Jaziri (Eastern Kentucky)
Gable Sieperda (Iowa State)
Emmanuel Cheboson (Arkansas)*
Colin Sahlman (Northern Arizona)*
Adriaan Wildschutt (Florida State)*
Abdi Nur (Northern Arizona)*
Ed Trippas (Washington)
Wil Smith (Gonzaga)
Ahmed Jaziri (Eastern Kentucky)
Gable Sieperda (Iowa State)
Ezekiel Rop (Iowa State)
Camren Todd (Utah State)
Liam Murphy (Villanova)
Theo Quax (Northern Arizona)
Said Mechaal (California Baptist)
Thomas Boyden (Stanford)
Alex Korczynski (Northeastern)
Rory Leonard (Oklahoma State)
Nicholas Kiprotich (Liberty)
Jonathan Shields (Boise State)
Ryan Raff (Northern Arizona)
Ryan Kinnane (Auburn)
Abdifetah Ahmed (Michigan State)
Jack Meijer (Wisconsin)
Jackson Sharp (Wisconsin)
Yasin Sado (Virginia)
Justin Wachtel (Virginia)
Brendan Fraser (Colorado)
Florian LePallec (California Baptist)
Arjun Jha (Michigan)
Carter Solomon (Notre Dame)
Izaiah Steury (Notre Dame)
Nick Foster (Michigan)
Jesse Hamlin (Butler)
Davin Thompson (BYU)
Robert DiDonato (Stanford)
Nick Scheller (Air Force)
- Abdi Nur and Adriaan Wildschutt were removed from our rankings due to turning pro.
- Emmanuel Cheboson was removed from our rankings as he has opted not to use his remaining eligibility.
- Colin Sahlman was removed from our rankings following a quote from Coach Mike Smith suggesting that it is unlikely that he will race for NAU this fall.