Friday, September 21
Boston, MA
12:30 PM
University of Washington
vs
Battle In Beantown (Men)
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Men’s Squad Will Gauge Progress In Boston
September 20, 2018 | Cross Country
BOSTON – Still very early in the process, the Husky men's cross country team will get a better sense of where it stands and where it needs to go as it runs its first real race Friday afternoon at the Battle in Beantown. The Huskies will be racing in Franklin Park in Jamaica Plain, Mass. at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time against a solid field of twenty-four other squads including several 2017 NCAA qualifiers.
Only the UW men made the trip east, as the women's squad will wait another week before opening up at the Stanford Invitational. Boston College hosts the meet, and a few of the teams the Huskies will line up against include 12th-ranked Campbell, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Harvard, 30th-ranked Mississippi, Pitt, Providence, Stony Brook, 10th-ranked Syracuse, North Carolina, 17th-ranked Virginia, and Wake Forest.
Huskies making the trip include Tanner Anderson, Julius Diehr, Chase Equall, Talon Hull, Fred Huxham, Nick Laccinole, Mahmoud Moussa, Tibebu Proctor, Alex Slenning, and Mick Stanovsek.
"This race in Boston is really everyone's first race," says Head Coach Andy Powell. "We'll try to run together. It will kind of show us where we're at and how we need to get better."
Coach Powell has had just about ten days to work closely with his new squad, and laying the groundwork for how he wants Washington to operate on a daily basis.
"Every coach has a different way of doing things. I think the biggest thing is just getting everyone to adopt the philosophy of how Maurica and I do things," he says. "So everyone knows that it's extremely important to show up on time. Everyone knows that when they come to practice it's a very professional environment and it's supposed to look and be a certain way."
Powell says that getting in the habit of "doing those little things" can make the biggest of differences. "How you warm up before practice, what you do after practice, not just going to the locker room but doing all the stretching and rolling and the hurdle drills," says Powell. "We've been lifting three times a week so that's been something we've had to transition into."
The Huskies are making that transition, and now turning their attention to the process of improvement. Powell has not put any specific goals on this year's team, the only goal will be to get better day by day.
"Over the last ten days they've gotten better and that's what we're going to work towards," he says. "Every day we want to get better and we want to make sure that we're enjoying the process. I don't know where that's going to put us in the end, but I know we're going to be a lot better than where we are now. We're not going to be outcome-oriented. Just going to try to get better every day."
Only the UW men made the trip east, as the women's squad will wait another week before opening up at the Stanford Invitational. Boston College hosts the meet, and a few of the teams the Huskies will line up against include 12th-ranked Campbell, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, Harvard, 30th-ranked Mississippi, Pitt, Providence, Stony Brook, 10th-ranked Syracuse, North Carolina, 17th-ranked Virginia, and Wake Forest.
Huskies making the trip include Tanner Anderson, Julius Diehr, Chase Equall, Talon Hull, Fred Huxham, Nick Laccinole, Mahmoud Moussa, Tibebu Proctor, Alex Slenning, and Mick Stanovsek.
"This race in Boston is really everyone's first race," says Head Coach Andy Powell. "We'll try to run together. It will kind of show us where we're at and how we need to get better."
Coach Powell has had just about ten days to work closely with his new squad, and laying the groundwork for how he wants Washington to operate on a daily basis.
"Every coach has a different way of doing things. I think the biggest thing is just getting everyone to adopt the philosophy of how Maurica and I do things," he says. "So everyone knows that it's extremely important to show up on time. Everyone knows that when they come to practice it's a very professional environment and it's supposed to look and be a certain way."
Powell says that getting in the habit of "doing those little things" can make the biggest of differences. "How you warm up before practice, what you do after practice, not just going to the locker room but doing all the stretching and rolling and the hurdle drills," says Powell. "We've been lifting three times a week so that's been something we've had to transition into."
The Huskies are making that transition, and now turning their attention to the process of improvement. Powell has not put any specific goals on this year's team, the only goal will be to get better day by day.
"Over the last ten days they've gotten better and that's what we're going to work towards," he says. "Every day we want to get better and we want to make sure that we're enjoying the process. I don't know where that's going to put us in the end, but I know we're going to be a lot better than where we are now. We're not going to be outcome-oriented. Just going to try to get better every day."
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