Kyle Dawson would probably trade exercise-induced anything for the form of exercise-enhanced condition he has known as Rhabdomyolysis. The condition cost him a red-shirt year in the 2007-08 season; not a bad thing as a freshman distance runner. Worse, it nearly cost him a real season of eligibility this cross country season.
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For an ex-New Yorker, Monday is the last roundup Dick Weis is hanging them up on Monday in Terre Haute, Ind. There couldn’t be a better day for it, because the school where he has coached for 26 years, Oklahoma State, is a contender to win the NCAA Division I men’s cross country championships that afternoon.
Washingon women and Oregon men win team titles. Iona men finish 2nd. Galen Rupp and Sally Kipyeo are crowned individual champs. Rupp's time of 28:43 is a new course record.
Teams from the Pacific Northwest swept the NCAA Division I cross country championships on a raw, windy Monday morning in Terre Haute, Ind. The Iona men’s team, under first-year Coach Ric Santos, was the only team close to the winning Oregon Ducks, scoring 147 to the winners’ 93 to finish second for the second year in a row.
Things may have been a little different leading up to the NCAA championships this season but has much as things may have looked different – they stayed pretty much the same.