The inaugural U.S. Collegiate Path Championships will happen on November 4, 2023, together 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 Operating Group 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 stage 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 Operating Group at WCU, who’s on the helm of creating these championships, instructed iRunFar:
“We’re working with the race director from the Moab Path Marathon, Danelle Ballengee, and over the previous few weeks we’ve been attempting to get some standards out for this primary yr. We simply launched registration and particulars on the Moab Path Marathon web site.” He went on:
“The large factor is, I actually need to concentrate on the workforce ingredient, and encourage extra faculties to introduce this path workforce atmosphere. Nevertheless, this yr, as a result of the occasion is quickly, we thought it could be good to introduce some people too that also match the standards, however possibly can’t put collectively a workforce of 4 in just a few weeks.”
Runners from the Western Colorado College Path Operating Group on the 2022 Moab Path Marathon, which would be the host occasion for the inaugural Collegiate Path Championships. All images courtesy of Josh Eberly.
Whereas this yr’s championships might begin small, Eberly hopes will probably be a superb launching pad and mentioned: “If there’s three groups or there’s 10, I’ll be fantastic with that. I simply need to begin someplace.”
With a purpose to meet the standards, entrants should be enrolled in a college/school as a pupil (undergraduate or post-graduate) and be enrolled in a minimal of six present credit per athlete. The workforce championships are for blended groups, and groups will likely be scored on their prime two female and male finishers, however are free to enter extra runners. All groups should put on an identifiable singlet or workforce uniform.
Though the championships will happen as a part of an open race on the already well-liked Moab Path Half Marathon, all collegiate runners will begin in a chosen 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 e 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 Operating Group, the autumn semester and season of coaching and racing is nicely underway. Eberly mentioned, “We’re weeks deep in follow now. We did a workforce journey over to Ouray, to the San Juan Mountains, we did The Cirque Sequence ─ Arapahoe Basin the primary week again, and we competed on the Golden Path World Sequence Pikes Peak Ascent race. We introduced 14 athletes to Pikes Peak and obtained them to compete and get to the highest in a single piece, there was superior vitality at it, and it was an important begin to the season to this point.”
Though they produce other occasions on the calendar, the principle focus for the WCU Path Operating Group is the brand new Collegiate Path Championships in November. Are you a pupil or college member from one other school, and assume you may problem them for the workforce win? If that’s the case, now could be the time to enroll!
Runners from the Western Colorado College Path Operating Group on the 2023 Cirque Sequence – Arapahoe Basin race.
