Katelyn Tuohy Clashes With Parker Valby! || 2023 NCAA Championships Cross Country 

I think Valby will just dust everyone.

How to watch? When is it?

not on this course@@geogo136

@@MrNoodle2001 Its 10:20 ET No idea what channel

i would like to know too but no one answers!! i m from Belgium@@MrNoodle2001

Yes but she ran her last race in training shoes, inwhich some say means her legs are sore.

@@elasticharmony Valby raced at regionals in Nike Vaporfly 3s, which are extremely high-end carbon-plated racing shoes.

@@WithBACON Vaporfly 3's are pretty bad, 2s and 1s are far superior, dont know why she is using them.

@@elasticharmony That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

@@chessplayer-ms3pn Ask Parker ;-) Preference in shoes seems to be pretty individual. I (for example) love zero-drop shoes; I'm surprised they aren't more popular.

Yeah this - I hope they carry on this rivalry way into their pro careers. Could be two future American superstars.

Lol 😂 that’s a good one

Ooof that's cold

GB does nothing each year then rocks up in the 1500m final and makes off like a bandit with the gold!

There is nothing stopping them competing against the "best in the world", right now. They are both "Open Grade" athletes. (Meaning aged 20 and over) But the College system controls them and as there is no real benefit for the Colleges to have them competing in Open Grade events, they strongly discourage it. Their College scholorships do not provide for out-of-College events. For example, they could both have competed in the World Cross Country event last year (if they had qualified and been chosen to compete for the USA and had designed their training to do so) but they didn't. Why not? They reality is, they may not have been good enough to even make the US team as Open Grade runners! To be precise, in middle/long distance Track and Cross-country, College level is a lot lower, standard wise, than Open Grade. They would have been swamped and finished mid-field, at the International event. Don't get me wrong: I think KT is an excellent Cross Country runner and pick her to do well in Open Grade in 3 or 4 years time, as she gets stronger and faster.

@@johnwilson5743 Such a shame, mean while east African and European athletes get to taste quality fields very early on. Imagine if Ingebrigtsen had to wait another year or two.

Many believe this was Tuohy’s last race in college. She graduates in December and many predict she will go pro after that.

The one question mark is how you improve like that... on the elliptical. A lot runners get injured, have to cross train and it takes a while to get back to fitness. But, I dont think Valby really stopped training with her injuries based on her interviews.

I guess that's an explanation, but she's used this last year too, so there's no change in trai ning methodology, whether injury or not. That doesnt easily explain a notable increase in performance after injury, which is VERY PECULIAR IN ANY SPORT

@@Phire6666 good point

I was wrong valby is insane

Florida has a chance to make the podium this year, so team points matter for Valby too

That is literally not how Katelyn has been racing at all during her collegiate career. She heads to the front, or at the minimum she sticks with the lead pack. She has some other teammates that are talented enough to also be in the lead pack but she absolutely does not hold back to keep the pack tight (she's actually shown that she panics a bit when she's around other runners who are matching her pace in the later parts of a race). Lowest score wins in CC so sending someone after 1 point vs 7 can be all the difference between the team winning or getting 2nd. NC had no idea if they had "locked" the win. If you want to talk about bunching up then New Mexico absolutely did a better job than anyone else last year as their 5 scorers were between 20 and 34 while NC was spread out between 1 and 74, so no, they had no idea if they were winning or not as the gap to New Mexico was only 26 points. If NM had a Katelyn or Parker who could have scored 1 or 2 points instead of 20 they absolutely would have sent them after the individual title as that could have improved their team chances for the national title. Instead, Katelyn won that race because she ran a much more metered effort and maintained her pace and had enough left for one of her notable kicks while Parker slowed up in the last 800 meters or so because she went too hard, too early and started to run out of steam. She's been doing a much better job this season on evening out her effort over the distance and as such has been the benchmark for the other gals to beat. But, again, it makes zero sense for your number 1 runner to only score 5-10 points when they could be scoring 1 point.

@@samanderson7745 yea, a bunched up pack is not a Touhy concern, now, Kelsey? Nope, as you said low score wins. A bunched up pack...is the resposibility of the slower/slowerst pack members, push to close, ain't no one slowing so you can finish tight.

@SuperChuckRaney Absolutely! That's why I love CC, its a team sport, sure, but each person has to perform at their best, ain't no substitutions in the middle of the race of you'rehaving a bad day, haha!

Both are racing for the team and the individual win as winning helps both

Yet Valby lost a 15 sec lead on a hill to Tuohy last year in the championship. Tuoy passed Parker, separated and won big.

Not strong enough. Lost 12 second lead and was bulldozed in NCAA Title race last year.

She had 15sec lead on Tuohy in the championship last year; Tuohy quickly closed and passed her to win.....

Exactly, which is why Malby needs to delay her push to the second half so she can maintain separation to the end. It will be a fascinating rematch.@@MooreCEJr

@@michaellayman945 Agree, with her delay; unless she has changed to that format this year. Parker's forte' is to get way out front and allow others to chase her down. This works unless you have someone like Tuohy and hills. You are right it will be a facinating rematch.