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He might have been rushin’, but he’s All-American!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

"Indiana, prepare to be invaded!"

So much ‘merica.

Best lean in the biz.

Stretching his body across that finish line like a boss, Coupeville’s Tyler King officially stamped himself an All-American.

King’s 40th place finish at Saturday’s NCAA D-1 Cross Country Championships in Indiana sounded great when Coupeville Sports first reported it that afternoon.

Turns out it was even better than thought.

Not only was King’s run (he covered 10,000 meters in 30 minutes, 56 seconds) his best performance in his time at the University of Washington, but it nabbed him the final All-American spot available.

The redshirt junior joined senior teammate Aaron Nelson (21st) in earning that status. It was the first time in school history that two Husky men were honored at the same championship.

Nelson was also an All-American in 2013, and his feat of being a two-time honoree will be one that King can eye in 2015.

U-Dub actually netted three All-Americans, as speedy junior Maddie Meyers also grabbed the honor on the women’s side.

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King goes national!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , , , on November 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

"When I run fast, the wind blows my hair back like this. I like it."

“When I run fast, the wind blows my hair back like this. I like it.”

Tyler King is in the top 16% of all Division 1 male college cross country runners at the moment.

Running at the NCAA D-1 Championships in Terra Haute, Indiana Saturday, the former Coupeville High School supernova finished 40th in the nation (out of 246 runners).

He covered the 10,000 meter LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course in 20 minutes, 56.7 seconds, the second-fastest of any University of Washington runner.

King, a redshirt junior for the Dawgs, was 14 seconds off U-Dub senior All-American Aaron Nelson.

A state champ during his days as a Wolf, King was in 167th place after 3,000 meters Saturday, then made a run for the front.

He climbed to 91st at the 5,000 meter mark, zoomed to 29th at 8,000 meters, then fell back just a bit at the end.

Edward Cheserek, a sophomore from the University of Oregon, won the individual race, clocking in at 30:19.4

Washington finished 20th as a team, in a field of 31 schools, while #1 ranked Colorado easily won the team title.

Stanford, Portland, Northern Arizona and Syracuse rounded out the top five.

In the womens’ race, Washington junior Maddie Meyers finished 27th, covering 6,000 meters in 20:32.6.

The Huskies placed 23rd as a team, with Michigan State taking the team title.

Kate Avery of Iona won the individual title.

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Mad Dog, hoops star? Oh, it’s true!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , on November 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

SCC

   Shoreline Community College’s 2014-2015 womens’ basketball squad, including Wolf grad Madeline Roberts (32).

Madeline Roberts

Mad Dog

Cue the record scratch.

Pulling off a surprise move, Mad Dog has jumped sports venues and is now ready to rain down buckets.

In one of the more unexpected bits of athletic news in 2014, former Coupeville High School softball sensation Madeline Roberts has picked up a second sport in college.

Now a freshman at Shoreline Community College, where she’s on scholarship to play softball, Roberts walked on the Dolphin womens’ basketball squad, which opened its season Friday with a loss to Wenatchee Valley.

“Yeah, haha, they didn’t have enough girls and needed some extra bodies, so I tried out,” Roberts said.

Despite not having played competitively in four years (she last ran the hardwood as a CHS freshman), her natural athletic skills took over and she’s now a gym rat again.

She apparently even convinced the person doing the SCC roster to believe she’s five-foot-four. Uh huh…

Shoreline plays in the Northwest Athletic Conference and has a 20+ game schedule that stretches through Feb.

That’ll keep Roberts active and on the go until it’s time to revert back to her glory days of being a slap-hitting lead-off hitter with dangerous speed and unexpected pop in her bat.

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King goes big time!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , on November 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

"Indiana, prepare to be invaded!"

“Indiana, prepare to be invaded!”

Tyler King is going to Terra Haute.

The former Coupeville High School state cross country champ and his teammates on the University of Washington mens’ team were picked Saturday as an at-large qualifier for the NCAA Division 1 Championships.

It’s the first time the Huskies, currently ranked 11th in the nation, have gone to nationals since 2009.

The race, hosted by Indiana State (Larry Bird’s alma mater) will be held at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Saturday. Nov. 22. Start time is 1 PM Eastern (10 AM Cow Town time).

A live webcast of the meet (starting at 12 Eastern/9 Pacific with the womens’ championship) will be broadcast on NCAA.com.

There are 31 teams in the field. The first 18 advanced by claiming a top two finish at one of the nine regionals (Washington was 5th in the West), before 13 at-large bids were handed out.

The field:

Automatic qualifiers:

Arkansas
Colorado
Florida State
Furman
Georgetown
Michigan State
Northern Arizona
Oklahoma State
Ole Miss
Oregon
Portland
Providence
Syracuse
Texas
Tulsa
Villanova
Virginia
Wisconsin

At-large teams:

BYU
Colorado State
Eastern Kentucky
Indiana
Iona
Michigan
New Mexico
North Carolina
Southern Utah
Stanford
UCLA
UTEP
Washington

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Birthday boy takes a (successful) run!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , , on November 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Eat big, run big. (Haley Jacobson photo)

Eat big, run big. (Haley Jacobson photo)

Tyler King ran fast Friday, but now he’ll have to sit and wait to see if he gets to run again.

The Coupeville High School grad, currently a redshirt junior at the University of Washington, finished 33rd out of 192 runners at the NCAA Division I West Regional cross country meet in California.

King covered the 10,000 meter course at Stanford in 30 minutes, 11.6 seconds, the fourth fastest time by a Husky man.

The 33rd place finish, on his birthday, was seven slots better than his career best at the event (40th as a freshman).

The top two teams at the regional — Oregon and Portland — move on as a group to the NCAA Championships in Terra Haute, Indiana Nov. 22.

The Dawgs, who entered the 29-team regional ranked #11 in the nation, finished fifth in the team battle.

Washington now has to wait and see if it receives one of 13 “at-large” berths into the 31-team championships. If it does, it would be the first time the U-Dub mens’ team had advanced to nationals since 2009.

In the individual standings Friday, Maxim Korolev of Stanford (29:33.5) edged out Oregon’s Edward Cheserek (29:35) for the title.

Aaron Nelson was the top Husky, finishing seventh in 29:45.2, while Izaaic Yorks (24th) and Meron Simons (32nd) were between him and King.

The Washington women finished fourth as a team, led by Maddie Meyers, who finished 7th, covering a 6,000 meter course in 20:17.1.

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