Alumni Wanderings (& A Coach We Agree With)

Mary Boggs went in search of the alumni news from the big college championships weekend and came up with some nuggets:

• Former Yale coach Dan Ireland made his Atlantic 10 Conference Championships debut outside of Charlotte, N.C., and his Explorer women won the A-10 title. In the process, Coach Ireland was named the league’s Coach of the Year.

• Princeton graduate Mark Amirault, now running for the Virginia Cavaliers, called his third-place finish at the ACCs his “best cross country race ever.” Amirault finished the 8k race in Clemson, S.C., in just 23:10.8. He also added, “The race went by really fast today and the guys were getting after it … As a team, we could have had a better day, but we’ll be ready for regionals.”

• Cornell graduate Adrien Dannemiller earned second-team All-Big 10 status by taking 14th at the conference championships in Champaign, Ill. His Indiana Hoosiers had their best Big 10 Champs showing in more than 25 years.

• And finally, off the cross country trails, Harvard graduate Sean Barrett placed eighth at the Marine Corps Marathon, finishing the trek in 2:32:10. Last year he finished third in 2:24:08. Click here for results from the Washington Post.

• And then there’s this — After winning the Pac-12 Conference Championships, Colorado Coach Mark Wetmore was asked to grade his team’s performance and he opted to take a dig at Harvard, of all places. “I would give it an A and an A and that’s as high as I get. This isn’t Harvard,” he said. We respectfully agree.

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