Redpack Ramblins

November 11, 2009

Headed to Regionals!

Wow! The team has been looking great the last 2-3 weeks in workouts. We are currently ranked 6th in the NCAA Great Lakes Region and we plan on improving on that ranking. Visualization is in full swing and we understand the LaVerne-Gibson cross country course as well. Regionals will be the 3rd time this year that we have raced on the course. It is a very challenging course, but for those who are ready to accept the challenge, let the racing begin! Wish us luck as we pursue our first NCAA National bid in a decade!

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October 22, 2009

Zach Raber '98 has Carroll HS Cross Country on the up and up!

As a student-athlete, Zach Raber '98 was a fierce competitor, one of the best runners in Indiana during high school and a stand out at Wabash College! He has taken that attitude, work ethic and leadership and passed it on to his Fort Wayne Carroll cross country team. Coach Raber has established one of the most successful programs in the state and has been recognized as one of the best young distance coaches in Indiana. Check him out on the news from this past Monday:

WANE Team of the Week (video)

Both his boys team and girls team are competing at the New Haven Semi-State this weekend in hopes of advancing to the Indiana State Cross Country Championships next Saturday, October 31st!

Good luck Coach Raber and Go Chargers!

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October 12, 2009

Progress! 5 weeks until NCAA Regionals...

This past Saturday we ran at the Gibson Family Invitational hosted by DePauw and Rose-Hulman at Terre Haute. As our season rolls along, so does our team progress. We are making strides towards our goal of making a return to the National meet. Two Zionsville runners are leading the way, Sophomore Kevin McCarthy and Junior Seth Einterz are working hard up front. We have some work to do in the middle of the pack. Donavan White is "on his way back" from an early season set back but is looking to make a huge return to the front in a few weeks! Our 4-9 runners need to decide who will represent Wabash College at the Regional and National level. The team is looking for a few guys to step up! To be continued...

Coach Busch

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September 08, 2009

Greetings All...

Richmond '11 -- The team spent the last couple of weeks very close to home, both during practice and on weekend race days. This past Saturday was the 48^th Wabash Hokum Karem, a six-mile relay-style flight through the school’s wonderfully flourishing Fuller Arboretum; and last Saturday the Redpack ran alongside family and alumni in the Charlie Finch Annual Alumni Run, a four-miler, also through the arboretum. Many of our most recent weekdays have been spent warming up and working out around the very same loop. I feel as though I’ve run more than half of my mileage since the beginning of school without leaving campus. Yes, that may be true. But I’m not complaining. The arboretum is great. All those trees, every one of them indigenous to Indiana, every one of them green and more attractive than any, I don’t know, car or fire hydrant I might pass on the road. And the ground is soft and grassy, much softer and grassier than any alley or street. And I know the course well. I’ll never have to worry about getting lost. And drive-by jeerers must have trouble jeering through the trees, because we do not normally have to listen to their petty vociferations while we’re hidden safely on our greener side of the sidewalk. And that’s nice, to be away from the jeerers. But the GLCA Championship meet in Ohio is this coming Saturday, so we must break with the security of the familiar. But we’ll be all right because we’re tough, because we don’t have to stop at stop signs.

Jeerers beware.

Keep your shoes on,

Mike

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August 31, 2009

Introductions!

Einterz '11 - Richmond '11 ---

Hello Folks,

This is Mike and Seth, your official blog writers for the cross country team. We're roommates at the Kappa Sigma house, and at odd hours of the morning, between and after and - most of the time - before homework, bored with the humdrum of fraternity life, we'll fill you in on the recent escapades of the Redpack. Tonight, introductions:

Seth: "I'm a junior Philosophy major, Physics and French double minor. I got into running when I was in fourth grade and my older brother was training for the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon. As a twelve year old, he ran a 1:23:38, and ever since I have been trying to live up to that speedy legacy."

Mike: "I'm a junior English/Philosophy double major. This is the beginning of my fifth year as a runner, my second as a member of Wabash's cross country team. Huzzah. I got fired from my last job as a blogger. Hopefully I can keep this one."

Keep your shoes on,

Seth and Mike

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August 13, 2009

Conference Rankings?

The NCAC Cross Country Coaches had their annual meeting on Tuesday, August 4th and the Little Giants are ranked 2nd in the preseason coaches poll. Allegheny College received all 10, 1st place votes for 100pts, the Little Giants came in second with 83. Allegheny finished 10th at last fall's NCAA National Cross Country Champions and will be very hard to de-throne from the top of the NCAC. BUT, we will do everything we can this fall to inch closer!

Coach Busch

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August 07, 2009

"Someone may not read books, but they will read you."

Coach Morgan...summer 2009

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