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Josh McDougal: “Running Is What I do, Not Who I Am”
Liberty University senior Josh McDougal is confident as he prepares for this summer’s U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. This past fall, McDougal became the 2007 NCAA Division I cross country national champion after he out-kicked Oregon’s Galen Rupp by one second. He was unsatisfied with his performances in the 5000 (5th place) and 3000 (6th place) at the 2008 NCAA Division I Indoor meet March 14-15, but remains optimistic as he builds his base for the trials.
It's tough to be critical after all he's contributed to LU Track and CC over his remarkable 4 year career, but does it not seem strange to anyone that Josh is competing in a 5000m race on the West coast rather than in the BSC championships? I feel like we can win it without him, and I guess Tolsma does too, but I sure hope they are right! If we come up short and the points he could have won just taking it easy and running at training pace cost us, there will be some second guessing for sure. As an outsider, it just doesn't look quite right. I assume the reason is that he and Jimmerson feel he needs a 5000 against tougher competition as he prepares for the Olympic trials.
Uh, we could win the Big South title without any points from the distance crew. And I say that knowing we will probably roll up a ton of points from those guys.
Oh, I think we will win fairly easily too, although coach Tolsma came out with some Lou Holtz style "coachspeak" saying he thought Coastal would give us a real challenge this year. Sure says a lot for our program that we can be heavily favored without the greatest track athlete by far in the history of the conference competing!
Worry not. This one's in the bag. Besides, Josh is trying for something much bigger than a BS Championship. The guys will domintate as always. The women will be tested, but I think they have a good shot of coming out on top.
Three things in this world are sure: Death, Taxes, and the LU men winning the Big South T&F championship.
Wow. Some of the running folks on that board are more testy than the people who populate the sports journalists board I visit. That's hard to do. Makes for a good laugh, anyway.