What an exciting race! You can tell the top 3 are totally spent at the end... They battled so hard the entire 10 kilometers. Also, absolutely love this film style. Pairing drone footage with on the ground video is perfection. Major props to whoever came up with and orchestrated that.
They did a very PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION IN CROSS RUNNING. FABOLOUS.. WHERE EVER ..WHO EVER TAUGHT THESE PEOPLE. BRUTAL...THEY ARE GETTING READY FOR THE TIME/SHOWTIME
This was one of the most intense races I’ve seen in a while; for the last two miles or so, it was looking like any of the top three teams could have taken it. I certainly feel bad for OSU, having it come down to a tiebreak is just terrible.
@UCOWiCo1idgsvjJq6xwy1gAg no. It’s not scored like high school. They compare the top 5 runners across head to head. NAU won 3-2, winning the tie breaker
You almost got a deduct 5 pts from OSU being that it's their home course. That is a massive advantage. NAU deserves credit for beating again all the massive athletics department budgets at OSU, Stanford, and BYU. Seriously, I think NAU has to borrow running shoes before the meets!
@@carolinewall3678 While I was being a little dramatic about the shoes admittedly, you seem to want to run right by the fact that the NAU Athletics budget is TINY compared to Stanford et al. I mean it's night and day. NAU WILL ALWAYS BE THE UNDERDOG when facing massive millions spent by all the other major teams.
What I observed about hicks...of the top 3 runners. His form and style was more conducive to the CROSS COUNTRY style RUNNING (creative free expression)..VS. ON THE TRACK .. regiment attack..two different SPORTS . because of this I saw him coming away with the victory..!!!
i hope Brody Hastings gets the proper credit. As a high school standout who has consistently found his way near the top 40 as the 4th or 5th man for NAU these last years (2022 - 25th; 2021 - 39th; 2020 - 44th; 2019 - 46th). I think a lot of people had really high expectations for him coming out of high school as a potential top 5 in the country kinda guy. And he hasn't been that good, but he has continued to grind, and his last 2k of the XC championships over the last years he has passes enough people for NAU to win. He was in the 40s at 5k this year, some years ago he was in the 60s and then finishes top 50. Huge point swing with him being so incredibly strong and gutsy on the back end. Without Hastings push NAU doesn't win this.
19:55 "that's a nice little safety valve there to have that guy in 6th even though obviously aren't using that in the tiebreaker anymore but that's a subject for a different day" aged well lol
Me and some of my team ran NXR in Arizona, and in the airport on the way back, we saw them and took pictures, it was so cool,they were just carrying the trophy through the airport.
Wow, we might never see a tiebreaker ever again to decide a National Title! I'm running ACXC Canadian Nationals in Ottawa next week, so excited for the race! PS: The race 4K highlight reel is finished! With the help of teammates filming. 😉
1:25, “we say this every year” last year “I love what Cooper Tear said about the wide range of athletes in this field we’ve never considered that before”
I am happy Hicks won just for the fact that he was up against two teammates, and he said he does not have a good kick...... But this was a sick race. I still find it pretty amazing that some of these men look almost two muscular and still can run so well at long distances like Nico.........
It is only about 4-5 minutes long (content and quality was superb). I don’t get why NCAA didn’t upload the entire race for the Mountain regionals unless copyright issues, since other NCAA regionals where uploaded.
Yeah ... because he sat on them and then do ALL the mental work..but don't kid yourself. Hicks had to prove his SUPERIOR CONDITION ON THIS GIVEN DATE AND EVENT..IT WAS QUITE APPARENT IN THE FINAL 🦶 KICK . THAT HE WAS NOT !!! GOING TO LET THE OTHER TWO PAST HIM..NO WAY IN HELL..ITS ALL ABOUT CONDITIONALLY READY...
WHO ARE YOU GUYS!!! THE BEST CROSS COUNTRY PRESENTATION I HAVE EVER BEEN HONORED TO LISTEN TO...BTW..IF YOU DON'T REALIZE THIS... YOU ARE VERY PROFESSIONAL CHARACTERS.. CONGRATULATIONS. MY RESPECTS...!!!THE BEST YOUR ENDEAVORS...x-runner of the past...
I ran XC for four years, and our 6th and 7th runner never scored because we never had a tiebreak. If this is so bad for the team concept, then I guess most races are bad for it? Look, NAU's top 5 would've bested OSU's top 5 in a head to head meet given their placements relative to each other. I don't see how this method takes away from the team more than regular scoring methods for non-tiebreaks. Of course it would be awesome to let teams field like 10 guys and count all 10, but we count 5 and allow 7 to keep the race with a manageable amount of people, and not DQ teams if a runner needs to drop out.
@@machineofadream If it were a dual meet there would have only been 2 teams and they could easily focus on the other runners on the other team. In the invitational setting you can't do that and the 6th man shows the team with more depth. The school my son went to won 2 dual meet titles by running 123 in all the dual meets they had no depth and lost in the invitational meets, the top 3 were sophomores when they won the first dual meet title. In their senior year my son made the team as an 8th grader and they won their first state title my son was 18th that race but their 6 and 7 runners were never that close they would have lost the 6th man but would have won head to head if they ever had a tie breaker. Team depth should decide tie breakers not having top end runners and poor depth.
Wish I would’ve stuck with cross country when I was younger. I always always discouraged because I was small and short distances races I always lost, didn’t factor in who could run the longest, definitely would love to get back out there
I heard like 5 years ago? It’s so stupid that they changed it. No matter how good the 6th or 7th runners did, it would never matter which is absolutely insane to me. It should come down to head to head if it’s somehow a tie through all seven runners
@@blakefreeman7305 I think it's better this way. In a dual meet between the two teams, if you take all the other runners out of the equation and just compare the two, NAU wins this without even looking at the tiebreak. That's why they do it this way. The main point of runner 6 and 7 99% of the time, either way you do it, is just to give teams more people to potentially get into scoring positions. For NAU, 6 and 7 could've been their 5th man on any given day, same for OSU.
Kudos to everyone who participated in this race. Excellent and very impressive performances. Now having said that allow me to state the following, THIS IS NOT A CROSS COUNTRY RACE! This is a road race. This is not a true representation of what a real cross-country course supposed to be. Now let read your opinions (and probably insults) to my comment.
Lets be real, OSU won this, love NAU but no denying OSU had the better team, coach always said the most important runners are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th runners
You can tell the NCAA could care less about this sport. No idea who the National Championship team is based off this video. Way to grow your sport and care about your athletes NCAA!?
very true. the announcers were horrible as well as camera work, especially on the women's race. You didn't even see enough coverage of Katelyn's surge.
PROPS to NAU. They have such a continually great team. Feel terrible for OSU. But hey, dems the breaks. BYU, my alma mater showed up respectfully, but there was a margin between #2 and #3. NAU and OSU are the stud teams this year. Congrats to them. This was supposed to be Nico's year. But dang, Charlie showed up BIG when it was all on the line.
But if you are looking to use them in local road races, don't. They aren't that comfortable to run in besides on the track and you'd be better off using the Nike Vaporfly, Alphafly, or any other brand carbon plated supershoe on the market.
This particular tiebreak is such a waste. I'm no OSU fan (I hate em), but they absolutely should have won that. Why bother running a sixth and seventh? Ok, a sixth maybe, in case one of your five goes down, but it makes having seven runners totally pointless. You can take an incredible team performance and kill it off because one team had two low sticks instead of one.
I feel terrible for OSU. Ran their hearts out to lose in a tiebreaker. Could've walked back to campus as National Champions. Just heartbreaking.
Happened at the regional too
Would have won if they used traditional tie breaker rules 😭
@@maxwang2562 no because NAU's 6 man was still ahead of OSU's right?
@@averyerickson7687 No. OSU's 6th was first.
@@jacksonpope3955 oh gotchu
What an exciting race! You can tell the top 3 are totally spent at the end... They battled so hard the entire 10 kilometers. Also, absolutely love this film style. Pairing drone footage with on the ground video is perfection. Major props to whoever came up with and orchestrated that.
They did a very PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION IN CROSS RUNNING. FABOLOUS.. WHERE EVER ..WHO EVER TAUGHT THESE PEOPLE. BRUTAL...THEY ARE GETTING READY FOR THE TIME/SHOWTIME
This was one of the most intense races I’ve seen in a while; for the last two miles or so, it was looking like any of the top three teams could have taken it. I certainly feel bad for OSU, having it come down to a tiebreak is just terrible.
How did they break the tie?
@UCOWiCo1idgsvjJq6xwy1gAg no. It’s not scored like high school. They compare the top 5 runners across head to head. NAU won 3-2, winning the tie breaker
You almost got a deduct 5 pts from OSU being that it's their home course. That is a massive advantage. NAU deserves credit for beating again all the massive athletics department budgets at OSU, Stanford, and BYU. Seriously, I think NAU has to borrow running shoes before the meets!
@@ronaldlincoln2935 They definitely don’t have to borrow shoes lmao, plus they get top recruits so it’s not like they’re some random mid major
@@carolinewall3678 While I was being a little dramatic about the shoes admittedly, you seem to want to run right by the fact that the NAU Athletics budget is TINY compared to Stanford et al. I mean it's night and day. NAU WILL ALWAYS BE THE UNDERDOG when facing massive millions spent by all the other major teams.
Charles Hicks is a beast! Cool, calm & collected.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ
Youyoukookoo
European xc will be an interesting test for him
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Run as fast as you can: Jesus is going on you!
What I observed about hicks...of the top 3 runners. His form and style was more conducive to the CROSS COUNTRY style RUNNING (creative free expression)..VS. ON THE TRACK .. regiment attack..two different SPORTS . because of this I saw him coming away with the victory..!!!
Cross country STYLE AND FORM at its best..not TRACK running!!.. this is why he won..
2:23 “the mens race is going to be tactical” Nico- bet. Runs a 4:17 first mile then runs 30+ seconds faster than Connor did two years ago😂
Well not as fast as Connor past year th
@@maxwang2562 his time on this course 2 years ago was something around 29:25-30 I believe
@@blainejohnson9954 damn
i hope Brody Hastings gets the proper credit. As a high school standout who has consistently found his way near the top 40 as the 4th or 5th man for NAU these last years (2022 - 25th; 2021 - 39th; 2020 - 44th; 2019 - 46th). I think a lot of people had really high expectations for him coming out of high school as a potential top 5 in the country kinda guy. And he hasn't been that good, but he has continued to grind, and his last 2k of the XC championships over the last years he has passes enough people for NAU to win. He was in the 40s at 5k this year, some years ago he was in the 60s and then finishes top 50. Huge point swing with him being so incredibly strong and gutsy on the back end. Without Hastings push NAU doesn't win this.
Go Lumberjacks! 🎉
YES Charles Hicks has finally done it!
19:55 "that's a nice little safety valve there to have that guy in 6th even though obviously aren't using that in the tiebreaker anymore but that's a subject for a different day" aged well lol
Well the 6th man wasn’t the tiebreaker so…
It happened against the same team with my xc team at sectionals and regionals. We tied first and our sixth man was better.
Charles Hicks had the Breakfast of Champions! Great Performance! Seems like his teammates had breakfast at a different restaurant!
What a race! Great job to everybody that participated.
Charles Hicks is about to get a lot more subscribers
Brodey Hasty won that for NAU. There was a pack of about 10 guys right on his butt at the finish and I think he passed them all in the last km.
Dylan Jacobs moved up the last 1k to come in 4th. He has a deviating kick. He caught Nico the last 2ft last year.
Prosser too..He ran out of his mind. Should be a real player next year too.
NAU runners don’t disappoint, drew and nico are beast
Great coverage and commentary for a cross country race. 👏
“Sixth man’s not a tiebreaker anymore but that’s a discussion for a different day”
Crazy how things played out 😂
Lumberjacks do it again. Proud alum, class of 92.
Me and some of my team ran NXR in Arizona, and in the airport on the way back, we saw them and took pictures, it was so cool,they were just carrying the trophy through the airport.
Wow, we might never see a tiebreaker ever again to decide a National Title! I'm running ACXC Canadian Nationals in Ottawa next week, so excited for the race!
PS: The race 4K highlight reel is finished! With the help of teammates filming. 😉
Good luck on your race!
Best of Luck at the Nationals!
same men
Good luck
@@remedan. thank you 🙏
Greatest Cross Country Meet in my lifetime!!!!
What a run from NAU. 6 of the last 7 national championships have been won by them
And this year most of the "experts" thought NAU was a longshot.
@@ronaldlincoln2935 yeah. I saw the ranked 4th in the lead up
Legendary race by hicks, he stayed calm while nico looked like he was dying
Nico always looks like he's dying. Some guys like him and Mantz just wear the pain on their face
You def have never watched nico race before😭
@@Yo-nb3dg I have i was just impressed with how calm hicks looked
Any other course and Nico wins it with a strong last kick...the hills not Nico's best chance.
in the aerial shots you get a better idea of how insanely fast they’re going
Thanks for not spoiling who won in the thumbnail, way better than what you guys used to use for thumbnails
1:25, “we say this every year” last year “I love what Cooper Tear said about the wide range of athletes in this field we’ve never considered that before”
Great race, best championship since 2016
Everyone slept on Drew Bosley
Hail Highlanders
@Chris Chu I think he was trying to stretch Hicks for Nico, but Hicks ate his wheaties
Nice pacing by the NAU guys for the winner.
Omg what a race and pace..!! Fenomenal…
Of course. It is a track pace, because they are running in a dirt track. Is that the cross country spirit?
Great Race! Boys were digging deep! Congrats NAU!! Well Done Boys!!
I am happy Hicks won just for the fact that he was up against two teammates, and he said he does not have a good kick...... But this was a sick race. I still find it pretty amazing that some of these men look almost two muscular and still can run so well at long distances like Nico.........
That was a nice coach move to let him win. Good on ya!
congratulations charles hicks !! u deserved it !
Craziest college cross country race of all time for sure. WOW
As an Alumni of NAU who is Canadian ....way to go NAU.....big congrats.
Still waiting on the mountain regional race tbh
Search Chris Floyd on TH-cam, there is a video of it on there
It is only about 4-5 minutes long (content and quality was superb). I don’t get why NCAA didn’t upload the entire race for the Mountain regionals unless copyright issues, since other NCAA regionals where uploaded.
A tie in the team race. Incredible. Just a matter of perspective. 100th place could have won your local 10k race.
Ummmm, last place would win a local 10k race 99% of the time
thought it was a great idea for the graphics to include the 5th runners
That's crazy. Whoever wins that is a stud.
HIGHLY HYPED UP RACE AND IT DELIVERED!!! hicks ran the smartest and OSU gave it their all. NAU dynasty lives AHHHH what.a.race.
Yeah ... because he sat on them and then do ALL the mental work..but don't kid yourself. Hicks had to prove his SUPERIOR CONDITION ON THIS GIVEN DATE AND EVENT..IT WAS QUITE APPARENT IN THE FINAL 🦶 KICK . THAT HE WAS NOT !!! GOING TO LET THE OTHER TWO PAST HIM..NO WAY IN HELL..ITS ALL ABOUT CONDITIONALLY READY...
Real ones are waiting for the Chris Floyd video…
Hicks was voted NCAA Athlete of the Year for 2022. He should win in 2023 and Robinson may be top five.
The English kid is True Grit.
Well done Charlie 🏴👍
I like Charles,
@@jennysmith8835 In England we prefer Charli
Woohoo! NAU!!! :))) repping Flagstaff Arizona!!
WHO ARE YOU GUYS!!! THE BEST CROSS COUNTRY PRESENTATION I HAVE EVER BEEN HONORED TO LISTEN TO...BTW..IF YOU DON'T REALIZE THIS... YOU ARE VERY PROFESSIONAL CHARACTERS.. CONGRATULATIONS. MY RESPECTS...!!!THE BEST YOUR ENDEAVORS...x-runner of the past...
Incredible that the team title for a 10K race came down to the tie breaker. What are the odds of that? (11/19/22)
Whoever thought this was a better tiebreaker, it takes away from the team concept the 6th man is better.
I ran XC for four years, and our 6th and 7th runner never scored because we never had a tiebreak. If this is so bad for the team concept, then I guess most races are bad for it? Look, NAU's top 5 would've bested OSU's top 5 in a head to head meet given their placements relative to each other. I don't see how this method takes away from the team more than regular scoring methods for non-tiebreaks. Of course it would be awesome to let teams field like 10 guys and count all 10, but we count 5 and allow 7 to keep the race with a manageable amount of people, and not DQ teams if a runner needs to drop out.
@machineofadream well said!
@@machineofadream Scoring the sixth runner in case of a tie break shows the team with more depth.
@@machineofadream If it were a dual meet there would have only been 2 teams and they could easily focus on the other runners on the other team. In the invitational setting you can't do that and the 6th man shows the team with more depth. The school my son went to won 2 dual meet titles by running 123 in all the dual meets they had no depth and lost in the invitational meets, the top 3 were sophomores when they won the first dual meet title. In their senior year my son made the team as an 8th grader and they won their first state title my son was 18th that race but their 6 and 7 runners were never that close they would have lost the 6th man but would have won head to head if they ever had a tie breaker. Team depth should decide tie breakers not having top end runners and poor depth.
I disagree...If you can't place at least one runner in the Top 3 is your team really the best?
Wish I would’ve stuck with cross country when I was younger. I always always discouraged because I was small and short distances races I always lost, didn’t factor in who could run the longest, definitely would love to get back out there
“Remember that bloody nose he ran through” 😂 So hardcore
I was so happy to see Hicks win.....he was stalking the whole race....and bidding his time. Then he put in the fire and wanted it bad enough.
EXACTLY HOW IT WORKS.. HE WAS MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY PREPARED...
Nico was so close. Next Year he will have it
I hope so. I was hoping this year he would have won it. Fingers crossed next year. The competition is unpredictable.
nico legs looked stronger than ever
All I can say is, "WOW!!".
Is it just me, or did the video end before they announced the definitive winning school?
PLEASE post the mountain region xc championship race
Search for Chris Floyd on TH-cam, he has a video of it on there
I love how he said “you don’t ALL have the fastest kick!” Ha ha!
Love the Tiebreaker method!!
Nah
These races really are intense and makes me miss my Pole Vault days at the University of Oklahoma.
Were you a CONTENDER @OKLaHOma
When did the 6th man tie breaker rule change?
I heard like 5 years ago? It’s so stupid that they changed it. No matter how good the 6th or 7th runners did, it would never matter which is absolutely insane to me. It should come down to head to head if it’s somehow a tie through all seven runners
@@blakefreeman7305 I think it's better this way. In a dual meet between the two teams, if you take all the other runners out of the equation and just compare the two, NAU wins this without even looking at the tiebreak. That's why they do it this way. The main point of runner 6 and 7 99% of the time, either way you do it, is just to give teams more people to potentially get into scoring positions. For NAU, 6 and 7 could've been their 5th man on any given day, same for OSU.
It sucks that happened to OSU. If you look at the team avg times, NAU edge OSU by 1 second!! 🥺😱
The time it takes to watch this video is my one mile time.
32 minutes? 😂😂😂😂
I can’t imagine how tough it was for osu not getting the tie breaker
AHHHH I really wanted Nico to win!!
Kudos to everyone who participated in this race. Excellent and very impressive performances. Now having said that allow me to state the following, THIS IS NOT A CROSS COUNTRY RACE! This is a road race. This is not a true representation of what a real cross-country course supposed to be. Now let read your opinions (and probably insults) to my comment.
"But that's a subject for a different day"
Keep running gentle bugs 😎Love ya
Great race guys!
Legendary
Dylan Jacobs’ kick won it for NAU.
“You play golf? Yeah. This ain’t golf!”
Nice pace.
FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE !! remember watch Charles at bolles
if you want to see exactly where the team win was clinched, 29:29. brodey hasty. what a transfer.
lettsssss goooooo charlesssss i knew itttttttttttt!!!! GBBBBB ON TOP
I love college tiebreaker. Let the top 5 who score decide who wins
Me too...people whining that OSU got screwed....really? They didn't have anyone in the Top 3...they shouldn't win it all!
@@ronaldlincoln2935 that doesn't matter if anyone gets in the top 3 individually its all about the team
The top 5 are already scored. Hence the tie. Using 6 and 7 is quality depth.
@@yoshitweet i think you meant to say “in my opinion” i completely disagree
@@ronaldlincoln2935the whole point of cross country is scoring your 5 runners, they both scored 83 points, how they did it is completely irrelevant
Dang bro came in first and his team still lost 😫 F it I would have cried
The start of every cross country meet reminds me of squid games now
Lets be real, OSU won this, love NAU but no denying OSU had the better team, coach always said the most important runners are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th runners
A race without Katelyn Tuohy?
So interesting not to know who will win!
I shall watch more men races.
That dude lead all the way
As an Australian American distance running is looking solid fast times the East Africans are the greatest but they have some stiff competition now.
Lol this was my race between 2004-2008… those 4yrs we raced in Indian Terre haute x country course ….
You can tell the NCAA could care less about this sport. No idea who the National Championship team is based off this video. Way to grow your sport and care about your athletes NCAA!?
very true. the announcers were horrible as well as camera work, especially on the women's race. You didn't even see enough coverage of Katelyn's surge.
Please add or enable Arabic subtitles so as Arabic audience can understand and enjoy your beloved vlogs. ❤
20:04 - that was not a subject for a different day
How about the pair of twins ? Did they race well?
What’s the point in running 7 guys?
W 💪🏾😭🏅
business is business
Where are the 800m specialist???
That’s there best event or that’s there main event and the one they prepare for the most
PROPS to NAU. They have such a continually great team. Feel terrible for OSU. But hey, dems the breaks. BYU, my alma mater showed up respectfully, but there was a margin between #2 and #3. NAU and OSU are the stud teams this year. Congrats to them. This was supposed to be Nico's year. But dang, Charlie showed up BIG when it was all on the line.
and Charlie will be back this year...I pick him to repeat...how bout you?
OSU figured it out for 2023... and how.
13:45 Who is that creepy black space suit guy in the background?!?!
Ou kicked their ass to later that day
Why do the men run a 10k and the women a 6k? Women should also run a 10k.
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Tom Brady from Michigan... wtf doesn't this guy do :)
In my high school and college races mens and womens races were same length. Seems unfair to me.
I see all these yellow shoes. Been years since I ran XC. Could stone tell me which brand and specific model these shoes are?
Nike Dragonfly, probably the fastest middle-distance shoe out there right now
But if you are looking to use them in local road races, don't. They aren't that comfortable to run in besides on the track and you'd be better off using the Nike Vaporfly, Alphafly, or any other brand carbon plated supershoe on the market.
6th man is a better tiebreaker
Is this cross country, or is this a race in a dirt track? Come to Madeira Island to see what cross country terrain is.
Tie breaker in college is so stupid.
I wish in germany would the love for running as bifgas in america
This particular tiebreak is such a waste. I'm no OSU fan (I hate em), but they absolutely should have won that. Why bother running a sixth and seventh? Ok, a sixth maybe, in case one of your five goes down, but it makes having seven runners totally pointless. You can take an incredible team performance and kill it off because one team had two low sticks instead of one.