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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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Still good to be the King!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King -- even his hair looks fast.

Tyler King — even his hair looks fast.

Tyler King was the key.

Well, one of them, as the University of Washington mens’ cross country team stacked together a string of runners Friday to grab enough points to pull off a surprising eighth-place finish at the illustrious Wisconsin adidas Invitational.

Running on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, the Huskies, currently ranked #25 in the nation, grabbed their first-ever top ten team finish at the event, upending ten teams currently ranked ahead of them.

Washington benefited from All-American senior Aaron Nelson claiming third in the field of 254 runners, but the strength of its overall showing came from a pack of runners who finished right on top of each other.

That group, which included Coupeville grad King (65th overall, 4th best among UW runners in 24 minutes, 25 seconds), pulled in enough points for U-Dub to upset #11 Michigan, #12 BYU, #13 Providence, #16 New Mexico, #17 Arkansas, #18 Florida State, #19 Eastern Kentucky, #20 Oklahoma, #23 Indiana and #24 Princeton.

Syracuse, ranked seventh in the nation, held off #14 Iona for the team title, followed by #9 Wisconsin, #5 Portland and #7 Stanford.

Maxim Korolev of Stanford (23:43) won the individual race, with Nelson hitting the tape eight seconds behind him.

King, a redshirt junior, and his Husky teammates will have two weeks of practice before starting their postseason run at the Pac-12 Championships Oct. 31 in Oakland.

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