Director of Cross Country and Track & Field
@GreenWaveXCTF
| 2023 AAC XC 🏆|
@USTFCCCA
Exec. Committee| 3️⃣xMAC Coach of the Year🏆|
@USATF
Emerging Elite Coach
ROLL WAVE! I couldn’t be more excited about this! We started at the bottom, now we’re 🏆💍 We will continue to lift and elevate this program to highest levels both in the American, and NCAA.
Graduating Champions, is the expectation.
#SetTheStandard
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#RollWave
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#RunWave
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Story worth sharing… Abby was a 2:31.7 HS 800M runner. I didn’t travel her last year indoors because she wasn’t ready for this level. Today, she ran 2:14!!! Being coachable and being motivated go a LONG WAYS! Can’t wait to watch her continue to blossom over the years ahead! 🌊
LET EM PLAY! I hate to see these sort of DQ’s in T&F. I’m sure he worked hard all year to earn this opportunity to celebrate a dominant championship victory at home. I can also handle watching a FB guy hit the gritty from 20yards out on a TD. I give this DQ 👎👎
Michael Roth (UTSA) 🇨🇦 was disqualified after he ran a PB of 45.78s to win the AAC men's 400m title for unsportmanlike behaviour.
The unsportmanlike behaviour:👀
We’ve got ourselves a steepler here! 800m runner/HS gymnast now converted 3,000m Steepler Brooke Lytle (Fr.) opens up with a 11:10 having not done one workout over barriers prior 😅😅😅 This is gonna be fun 💪💪💪
#ShesANatural
Truly blessed by this! 🙏
Though I get this recognition... I gotta give all the credit to those superstars I coach who totalled 5️⃣9️⃣ points towards our MAC Indoor Track & Field Championship 🏆 They train so hard for me and then raced their hearts out for this title! 🐾
In my first year as a Director, I have enjoyed watching my Assistant Coaches implement our standard for the program. It’s not always easy or linear, but we have surrounded ourselves with those that understand what it takes to succeed here. The standard is set. Now watch us ROLL🌊
What a year Champ! You lose or you learn... If there is one thing I’ve learned well... Ashley Tutt never loses, she just learns how she can get better. Pride is an understatement for what myself, this program, this university, this community and state have for you!
#QueenTutt
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I cannot express how proud I am of the growth in
@GreenWaveXCTF
! From a “we will not finish last” speech, to today contending towards a Top-3 finish in a tough league. This happened in 1-year! We are here, and not going anywhere.
#RollWave
#BuildingChampions
#BuildingTradition
Wasn’t meant to be for our ladies today at NCAA Regionals. But the Wave doesn’t break. Historic season for the program and just the beginning. We will be back y’all. Forever, ROLL WAVE!
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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#SetTheStandard
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Great runs today by Jack Jennings and Bradley Makuvire! Jack finishes 54th just outside becoming an
#NCAAXC
All-American (Top-40) and Bradley Mak with his highest career finish at 83rd! The Wave’s momentum continues! ROLL!!!
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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#SetTheStandard
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Ashley Tutt (So.) in her first 5K of the season (and since 2018), rips a new school record by 19-seconds!! 16:20.13
#BigPicture
@tutters17
😏😏😏💪💪💪🐾🐾🐾
Hot take on
#NCAAXC
tie breaker. I like the rule as is. They only score 5. What happens if a team only runs 5? You’d rather in that case award the team who’s 6th was 2nd to last place (random number) even though 5 on 5, the short handed squad was stronger? Just an example… 🤷♂️
With a very heavy heart right now I must thank my seniors for everything they’ve given me. When no one believe in this program, they saw what I saw. They rode this thing from the bottom to the top. I will have a special place for them in my heart. Then, now, and forever. 🙏🐾❤️
@tutters17
just dropped a massive 1,500M PR of 4:23.4 at the
@DrakeRelays
! Way to double back a week after running the 12th fastest 10K in the country
#BrickByBrick
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Immensely proud of what this young lady did to herself mentally, emotionally, and physically in the last 4-days at the highest levels of our sport. Huskie Nation has a very special person running the streets of DeKalb and she is far from done. ⚫️🔴❤️
#GRIT
#NIUXC
An amazing run tonight by true freshman Ashley Tutt!!! Who’d have thought a sub-34 10K wouldn’t have made it to the NCAA final!?! 😳😳😳 2011 was the only year in the Regional era that 33:58 did not make the NCAA Finals. Most years it would have won it. Way to go kid! 🐾🐾🐾
I’m SO proud of this young woman! She is a champion of character, leadership, work-ethic, and humility.
@tutters17
is now an All-American!!! She will continue to improve and strive towards big goals which is what makes her great. I can’t wait to watch you bounce back in OK! 🐾💥
Soooo proud of
@tutters17
on her 20”~ PR and new
@NIUXCTrack
school record! Her hard work and dedication always pays off. She raced with confidence and composure off an early slow pace to then close the show out in style with a big finish. Next stop
#MACtion
! Then...
#NCAA
??🤞
I’m so thankful for this woman and all the trust she has bestowed upon me with this program. One thing I won’t do is let her down. Congratulations again to
#MACtion
“Head Coach of the Year”, a well deserved honor for the GREAT
@CoachTeaberry
🐾🐾🐾🙏🙏🙏
#NIUXC
#NIUTF
Mackenzie Callahan WINS the Mile at Kentucky ahead of the Ohio State, All-American! She went through 800M in 2:39-40~ at 800m, and closed with with some sizzle over the back half. Excellent start! 💥 🔥 💨
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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Not only do we at
@NIUAthletics
do things the
#HardWay
”, but the “Right Way”. Nothing is more important than the health and safety of those you are a steward over. It is easier to just follow than to lead. Salute to you President Freeman and Mr. Frazier. We will be back! 🐾🐾🐾
We didn’t come here to take part, we came here to take over. Highest AAC finish in Women’s program history!!!
Watch us continue to RAISE the
@GreenWaveXCTF
STANDARD!
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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“Most of us consider trust to be built slowly, with verification, and in degrees... trust is created by a combination of things and, while the end result is almost magical, the process cannot be rushed”. -Mac Richard
TRUST brought us all here. TRUST won us this championship.🏆🐾
I couldn’t be more proud of
@tutters17
👑. To go down in the mud, get back up and fight her way to 50th place at the NCAA National Championships! As I was told a couple years ago “Tutt never gives up”. It remains very true today.
I said just get to the 1200M on pace for a MAC mark (nursing a tight muscle)... she did... then ran 66-seconds over the last 400M 🔥🔥🔥 for the “W” and a HUGE 1500M PR (as well as Mile equivalency). Her mark is currently the MAC leader 💪💪💪.
#BuildingChampions
#NIUTF
#NIUXC
Man, I’m so dang proud of these ladies! DMR showed out with outstanding splits💥🔥and Ashley defended her 5,000M title🏆👑 Excited for some Saturday
#MACtion
with my
@NIUXCTrack
dogs!
I wanna give a quick Monday morning shout out to these 3 for their Championship performances.
#BuildingChampions
#BuildingTradition
🐾Ashley Tutt 🥇MAC Champion, 1st Team All-MAC
🐾Mackenzie Callahan 🥉3rd Place, 1st Team All-MAC
🐾Ericka Hibser 🏅13th Place, 2nd Team All-MAC
This sport rarely (if ever) gives you more than you deserve. “Working hard” is a major factor in the equation, but for most that’s clockwork. Few things replace being doggedly focused and inspired to perform on race days. On Saturday, we will get what we deserve
#MACtion
#NIUXC
Illinois always produces amongst the top-5 states in the country with athletes at the
#NCAATF
National Championships. 21 of those 30 are from the Chicagoland Area! Continue to represent our Track & Field Tradition
#IL
👏👏👏
@NIUXCTrack
is always interested in homegrown talent! 🐾
Last year Ashley was running on the AlterG watching her teammates compete here at GVSU. Tonight she set a new school record in the 3K at GVSU running against 2-USATF Finalists! 🙏🙏🙏🐾🐾🐾
After an exciting finish (2:15 to close!) we have another medal for the Wave! Mackenzie Callahan is your AAC Runner-up in the Mile!
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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I’m so glad this is getting national attention. XC/Track & Field is diversity! It always has been! Additionally, cutting a program that equates as 3 separate sports by the NCAA, BUT... costs the same or less than any other 1 non-rev sport makes 0 sense! 👇
Looks like we have an NCAA Trophy for the case 🏆🌊
Still processing how AMAZING a score of 4,277 is for the Pentathlon 🤩 On a global scale that is ELITE (
#37
in 🌎)!
Hard to deny this as the greatest Women’s
@TulaneAthletics
performances in history
#RollWave
📸
@ItsMcLamore
Hard fought
#MACtion
10,000m title for
@tutters17
down the stretch. Winning at this level is never easy and always earned! Way to get it done for
@NIUXCTrack
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My heart goes out to the
@EMUXC_TF
community who have lost a giant in the sport. Coach Bob Parks is a
@USTFCCCA
@MACSports
Hall of Famer and the loving father of current EMU Director of XC/T&F, Sue Parks.
@SueP329
we are all here for you! ❤️🙏
To say we are excited about this group is to put it lightly. Talent, leadership, work-ethic and growing belief that anything is possible. The Tulane Standard isn’t for everyone. But I can confirm that
@GreenWaveXCTF
is Rollin! 🌊🟢🔵
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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#TulaneStandard
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WHAT. A. YEAR for this PROGRAM! From Mid-August to Mid-May we rose the Tulane XC/T&F Standard. From LAST in the AAC And Region to…
✅Highest Women’s AAC XC Finish
☑️2nd Highest Men’s AAC XC Finish
✅Highest AAC Indoor T&F Finish
☑️2nd Highest AAC Outdoor T&F Finish
EVER. 📈👀
Congratulations to the Men of
@GreenWaveFB
! Another team showing that you can WIN at the highest level here in Uptown, New Orleans. Leadership and vision matter!
#ROLLWAVE
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@fastuniversity_
Not an accurate tweet. Take the time to visit and review conference performance lists (yes even the “big” conferences). These times will earn you a “full” and without question significant aid at ANY school out there. These are NOT the standard.🤷♂️
What a great performance tonight by Tutters who ran a very smart race to finish 6th overall in a smokin fast MAC 10K (winner ran 33:35). She was the only freshman to podium. She doubles back on Saturday in the 5,000M. Wish her fast recovery and good luck! 🐾🐾🐾
#NIUTF
#NIUXC
Couldn’t be more proud of our boys! We went for it and came up just a bit short of an NCAA AQ bid behind
#7
Arkansas and
#9
Texas. This is the Tulane Standard! We will be back, and better.
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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#SetTheStandard
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Congratulations to Ashley Tutt for being accepted into the LEaD Huskie program! What a great person to represent our program! She has done so much in a short period of time on and off the track. An outstanding student-athlete! Very proud of you! 🐾🐾🐾
#LEaD
#Leadership
#NIUXC
Competing “unattached” (redshirting) this weekend, Mackenzie Callahan matched her PR in the 3,000m Steeplechase! Though it will not be in the record books this year, it is the 2nd fastest time EVER ran for a Green Wave athlete at that distance. Great run Kenz!
#RollWave
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Another BIG commitment for
@GreenWaveXCTF
👀🌊📈 The game has absolutely changed for Green Wave XC.
I cannot wait to release both our men’s and women’s programmatic recruiting class soon. 🔜
The Tulane Standard has elevated. 📈
#RollWave
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#RunWave
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#WeComin
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Congratulations Mackenzie Callahan (So.) who became the All-Time 2nd Fastest Miler in program history over the weekend! In doing so, she leaped over former Huskie greats Meghan Heuer and Ali Olson (Both NCAA 800m Qualifiers and school record holders).
To all who are in the Midwest and their job requires them to be available for public service the next couple days, thank you for what you do and please be safe.
And again this weekend in a race that produced a
#MACtion
conference AND meet record, the lone freshman our own Mackenzie Callahan found a way on the 1,500M podium! So proud of her progress as a young athlete and ability to compete. She will be a force for years to come 🐾🐾🐾
Unfortunately the rise isn’t always linear.
@GreenWaveXCTF
is on our way to winning over all 3-seasons (XC, ITF, OTF). It took only 2-years to complete Phase-1, an
@American_Conf
XC 🏆 We’re tracking towards Phase-2, the Indoor and Outdoor T&F👑🗣️Trust me, buy the dip!📈ROLL! 🌊
I love watching this young and well coached
@NIU_Football
squad more and more every week. Hold each other’s heads high men! This is just the beginning of great things ahead.
#TheHardWay
#PlayLikeAHuskie
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Thank you to 2️⃣✖️🇺🇸Olympian, 2️⃣8️⃣✖️
@usatf
National Champion & AR Holder
@MollyHuddle
for joining our weekly
#NIUXC
team call! Molly shared her story and wisdom with our crew. We appreciate you for doing so, and for continuing to make young women in our sport dream BIG!🙏🏃♀️🇺🇸🏅🐾
Bradley Mak put the gloves on and fought hard again tonight in the
@NCAATrackField
Prelims 5K. Came in ranked 45th and finished 23rd📈 He never quit, just ran out of gas the last 800m. Proud of his development and the record setting year he’s had
@GreenWaveXCTF
#ROLLWAVE
#RUNWAVE
Freshman, Roman Schrader ROLLS a 1:54.20 in Boston over 800M! Roman’s HS outdoor PR was 1:58.70! Keep an eye on this young man, he just keeps getting faster by sizable amounts! Roman ran 4:35.7 in HS for 1,600m, but ran 4:24.6 to open the indoor season 2-weeks ago.
#RollWave
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THE SQUAD! Man, they went to battle for us all weekend long through the ebbs and the flows of a championship meet. Their strong efforts contributed BIG team points! 🏆 They absolutely showed out and I am immensely proud to Coach them. 🙏🐾
#BuildingChampions
#BuildingTradition
There are a million ways for me to make you tired in training. There are a million ways for me to challenge you to grow. But all those “ways” mean nothing, if you do not BELIEVE in YOURSELF. Is it possible? Are you capable? Are you willing?
#RollWave
#BuildingChampions
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