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Oregon Men Indoor Season PreviewFeb 4th 2015, 9:36pm
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Oregon Men Indoor Season Preview

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The Oregon men cracked the barrier in a big way in 2014.  Much of that success was due to a freshman, Edward Cheserek.  In workouts, the pace quickened for the top Duck distance runners and what resulted were breakthrough performances for Cheserek and his training mates, senior Trevor Dunbar and redshirt juniors Parker Stinson and Eric Jenkins.  

 

Jenkins was recovering from injuries incurred during his previous year at Northeastern and didn't compete in cross country or indoor (finished fourth in the 5,000 meters outdoors).  Without him, freshman Cheserek won the NCAA indoor 3,000m (3k) and 5,000m (5k), Oregon scored 30 points in the 3k and 5k and add in Mac Fleet's mile title, Oregon scored 40 points (Arkansas scored 54 for 2nd and Florida third with 35).  Oregon returns 26 of those points (Parker Stinson was third in the 5k).

 

Senior Johnathan Cabral dealt with injuries in the middle of last season that took him out of competition for a few weeks and damaged his ability to score at the NCAA meet outdoors.   He was healthy indoors when he finished fourth (7.65 at altitude) in the 60m high hurdles.  Last year freshman Devon Allen took the sport by surprise and improved all year long (and lost 10-15 pounds) en route to NCAA and US 110m high hurdles titles.  The first play of the recent Rose Bowl resulted in an injury that will limit his ability to contribute to the team this year (at the PAC-12 he competed in four events) and could prevent him from making an NCAA final. 

 

Ivy League graduate seniors Will Geohegan (Dartmouth) and John Gregorek (Georgetown) transferred to Oregon and respectively bring fourth and fifth place finishes, respectively, from the 2014 NCAA indoor mile. m  At Rod McCravy Memorial they both PR'd.  One in the 3k (Gregorek 7:54.85) and one in the 5k (Geoghegan 13:43.22).  With a deep group of distance runners and sophomore 400m runner Marcus Chambers, the Ducks have a chance to score well in the Distance Medley Relay.

 

Greg Skipper has developed into a consistent performer in the hammer throw but has yet to break into a very competitive and historically strong weight throw field.  Skipper's once scrawny frame has developed into a potential challenger at this year's NCAA indoor meet and PR'd at the UW invitational with a school record 70-10 1/2 (9th best among returners). Nate Moore, the 2014 high school long jump leader and top all-conditions triple jumper will challenge to score at the NCAA level in a fairly weak group of returners in the horizontal jumps.  NCAA Regional competitor, yet injury-prone, Colby Alexander ran a sub-4 mile this summer (won McCravy at 4:00.84) and may stay healthy enough to score in the mile.  NCAA competitor Trevor Ferguson is competing in his first indoor season in two years, and football player Charles Nelson could qualify for the NCAA meet in the jumps.

 

Also likely to challenge for points will be NCAA outdoor 1,500m competitor, sophomore Sam Prakel, freshman Blake Haney, past NCAA competitors Jeremy Elkaim and Mitch Modin (5510 PR at UW Invitational),  freshmen world junior competitors Cole Walsh and Niki Franzmair (1:46.78 and 3:42.64), and UW Preview 3k winner Matt Jablonski. Two recently injured runners Jake Leingang (7:56.81 at Rod McCravy) and Travis Neuman could also challenge.

 

 

It will be very hard to repeat, especially since Florida had a tremendous performance outdoors.  Last year they did not reach form chart predictions at the NCAA meet indoors so they will use the motivation of two losses to the Ducks at the NCAA meets.

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