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Meanwhile, Lukas Haug closed out the scoring with a respectable 57th place finish. He may not be quite as impactful as a scorer as some of the top veterans were last year, but he'e still And how about Lukas Haug? He had a few passable cross country results, but not enough to be an impact name for this team. We're relying heavily on guys like Mathison, Givens, Overberg, Appleton, Haug, Aschbrenner, Stafford

This week, Maura and Garrett chat about some of the more difficult athletes to gauge when it came to

It was hard to gauge exactly where they were at that point compared to their Division Three counterparts As for James, it’s a little tricky to gauge where she will be fitness-wise after only racing once on often that a team has a group of four runners with a high floor who can still make noticeable scoring impacts

Ben and Garrett later chat about some of the more difficult athletes to gauge when it came to crafting

And naturally, most incoming transfers are going to have an impact on how we talk about certain cross Of course, the lineup structure of a team also factors into the potential impact that an incoming transfer adding someone of a similar talent to those runners, while nice to have, isn't going to make a dramatic impact Perfectly projecting the impact that former high school stars will have in their first season in the NCAA is hard to do, but we'll use history to the best of our ability to gauge expectations.

finish at last year's Chile Pepper XC Festival (a race which featured the Arkansas men) was hard to gauge Soheil Boufrizi, Senior, Wingate It's truthfully hard to gauge Soheil Boufrizi who contested only two being a workout for the Bulldogs, the national meet is truly the only meet where we have an accurate gauge

Noble's shocking mile DQ, the exciting youth movement in the women's longer distances, challenges with gauging