The inaugural U.S. Collegiate Path Championships will happen on November 4, 2023, along with the Moab Path Half Marathon in Moab, Utah. Each people and groups from all universities and faculties all through the U.S. are invited to participate.
Prompted by the expansion of the Path Working Crew at Western Colorado College (WCU), the hoped-to-be annual championships intention to behave as a catalyst for the event of path working applications and groups at varied increased degree establishments all through the U.S., and to offer such groups with an finish objective value aiming towards. Josh Eberly, head coach of the Path Working Crew at WCU, who’s on the helm of growing these championships, informed iRunFar:
“We’re working with the race director from the Moab Path Marathon, Danelle Ballengee, and over the previous couple of weeks we’ve been attempting to get some standards out for this primary 12 months. We simply launched registration and particulars on the Moab Path Marathon web site.” He went on:
“The massive factor is, I actually need to give attention to the crew component, and encourage extra faculties to introduce this path crew atmosphere. Nonetheless, this 12 months, as a result of the occasion is quickly, we thought it might be good to introduce some people too that also match the factors, however possibly can’t put collectively a crew of 4 in a number of weeks.”
Runners from the Western Colorado College Path Working Crew on the 2022 Moab Path Marathon, which would be the host occasion for the inaugural Collegiate Path Championships. All pictures courtesy of Josh Eberly.
Whereas this 12 months’s championships might begin small, Eberly hopes will probably be launching pad and mentioned: “If there’s three groups or there’s 10, I’ll be positive with that. I simply need to begin someplace.”
To be able to meet the factors, entrants have to be enrolled in a college/school as a scholar (undergraduate or post-graduate) and be enrolled in a minimal of six present credit per athlete. The crew championships are for combined groups, and groups shall be scored on their high two female and male finishers, however are free to enter extra runners. All groups should put on an identifiable singlet or crew uniform.
Though the championships will happen as a part of an open race on the already in style Moab Path Half Marathon, all collegiate runners will begin in a delegated USATF Path Half Marathon Championships wave at 10 a.m.
The open race is full, however there are nonetheless locations held for collegiate runners and groups, who ought to electronic mail [email protected] to obtain a hyperlink to register. Or for extra data, attain out to Josh Eberly at [email protected].
For the WCU Path Working Crew, the autumn semester and season of coaching and racing is nicely underway. Eberly mentioned, “We’re weeks deep in follow now. We did a crew journey over to Ouray, to the San Juan Mountains, we did The Cirque Collection ─ Arapahoe Basin the primary week again, and we competed on the Golden Path World Collection Pikes Peak Ascent race. We introduced 14 athletes to Pikes Peak and bought them to compete and get to the highest in a single piece, there was superior power at it, and it was a terrific begin to the season thus far.”
Though they produce other occasions on the calendar, the primary focus for the WCU Path Working Crew is the brand new Collegiate Path Championships in November. Are you a scholar or college member from one other school, and assume you possibly can problem them for the crew win? In that case, now could be the time to enroll!
Runners from the Western Colorado College Path Working Crew on the 2023 Cirque Collection – Arapahoe Basin race.
