Big 12 Outdoor Quotes - Men's 5,000 Meter Champion
Men’s 5,000 Meter Champion
Brent
On His Performance In The Finals
“It was a little bit of a confidence boost, but the main thing was to just go out there and get 10 points. I wanted to set a solid pace that my teammates could hold on, but I wanted to lose some competitors?it worked out pretty well.”
On His Performance In The Finals
“What’d I do yesterday? I don’t remember yesterday, I just wanted to go out there and get as many points as possible. I think we did a good job and we had a couple guys double-up and have huge days today.
“No excuses, I’m fine I just didn’t run a smart race. I’m fortunate that I have great teammates like James (Begley), Jeremy (Dodson) and (Ryan) Campbell who really stepped up for us.”
On His Performance In The Finals
“The 5k is our distance race here, and I think we did our job today.”
On Taking The Lead During The Finals
“Anytime you can get a Big 12 Championship it is pretty special. Being able to have my family and friends here is pretty special to me. It has to be big for us, whenever you can get contributions from your entire team it’s great. This is more special than our cross country championships because we have a good showing there every year. This is a little more special.”
On His Performance In The Finals
“It was a little bit of a confidence boost, but the main thing was to just go out there and get 10 points.
Men’s 5,000 Meter Runner-Up
Kenyon
On A Dominating Team Performance In The 5k
“First of all, I attribute it to all of our guys and all of the hard work that they do, they train everyday of the week. Everybody wants to win, everybody has to win, we’re all competitive with the guys on our team?it’s a good competition of course. Then there is Coach Wetmore, if he isn’t the best coach in the nation he’s up there?but I think he’s the best coach in the nation. Through recruiting we have brought in a lot of talent and then Mark (Wetmore) is able to get the best out of them and make less talented guys great.”
On Having Two Top-2 Finishes This Weekend
“The 10k we just wanted to score as many points as possible, I wanted to stay relaxed and run my race. I really just wanted to do well in the 10k and then come back today and score high in the 5k.”
On His Performance In The Finals
“This is the first time we’ve ever won a Big 12 (Team) Championship, the fact that it happened here with this group of guys, who all deserve it, is great. We’re really known as a cross (country) program, we had a great team this year and didn’t really do well at (cross country) nationals but we were able to come back in track and redeem ourselves?it is pretty incredible.”