Zach Kughn

Head XC Coach @ Idaho State. Montana State/Grand Blanc Alum. Believer. Runner. Dog Dad. 🐶 Track Announcer

[Zach Kughn @zunitk]

https://t.co/jrt6j8ETBg

Finally got around to doing this for 2025!
Men:
D2 Saginaw Valley > Ohio State
NAIA The Master’s > Vanderbilt
D3 St Lawrence > Baylor

Women:
D2 Colo School of Mines > Michigan
D3 Williams > Iowa
NAIA Taylor > Rutgers
D2 Flagler > Arizona State

[Michael Scannell @RealIronMike]

The program doesn’t have to be perfect for progress to show up. Stop sitting on the sidelines because ‘it’s not perfect.’

[Montana State TF/XC @MSUBobcatsTFXC]

This performance in Fayetteville was certainly worth the wait 😼

#GoCatsGo

[Mickey Plyler @Mickeyplyler]

EMU golf is in the final 8 of women’s golf. They have two players from California that are high dollar NIL transfers that only take online classes and live in California. They rarely visit EMU. They meet up with the rest of the team for tournaments. Please tell me rock bottom.

[Montana State TF/XC @MSUBobcatsTFXC]

By unanimous decision, Coach Weese is the 2026 Big Sky Women's Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year! 🤩

#GoCatsGo

[Paul Hof-Mahoney @phofmahoney]

🚨 Within the announcement of the qualifying standards for the 2027 World Championships this morning, World Athletics laid down a new rule that could have significant ramifications for throwers:

“Discus Throw performances for Entry Standards must be achieved within the confines of a traditional athletics
facility unless otherwise approved at least one month in advance by World Athletics Competition Unit. But
will be accepted for World Rankings.”

In what seems to be a direct counter to the rise of Ramona, OK, over the last three years, marks outside of a “traditional athletics facility” will no longer be eligible to attain qualifying standards.

The biggest questions this raises are:
1) What is a “traditional athletics facility”?
2) What does “within the confines” mean exactly? Does this mean that only sectors and rings on the infield of a 400m track are eligible to throw standards from?
3) What will it take to get “otherwise approved”?

This move also falls in line with World Athletics’ shift to a qualifying system more reliant on World Rankings than standards, with a target field that features 40% of athletes qualified by the standard and 60% qualified by Ranking.

If there’s any consolation, World Athletics is also negating standards run in distance races during the indoor season, which wipes out the distance runner’s Ramona at Boston University.

📸 @audreyallenn

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

How bad were the enhanced games at enhancing?

They somehow took near world-class sprinters, doped them, and made them slower...

Not just from their PRs, but from last season...and in most cases, slower than a good HS runner...

Here's the details:

[Zach Kughn @zunitk]

If you thought the enhanced games was just old people past their prime performing worse than they used to, you ain’t seen nothing yet, The Killer are about perform

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.

11.25 win 250k
11.43- 125k
11.48- 75k
11.6- 50k

They just paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for high school times.

Good for the athletes for making $$. But what an absolute failure of “enhancing” anything.

[Alex Predhome, Track and Field Enjoyer @Predamame]

I’m crying. They got non-enhanced athletes winning and doped up women running 11’s.

They just created another random track meet that you find out about from scrolling twitter.

[Owen @_OwenM_]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! 🤯🔥

18-year-old Yan Ziyi 🇨🇳 launches the javelin to an absolutely insane mark of 71.74m in Xiamen.

It’s the second furthest throw in history and just 54cm shy from the world record.

#XiamenDL

🎥 @Loong_Knight

[Sam Herder @SamHerderFCS]

Biggest FCS football budgets in FY25 (2024 season)

H/T Extra Points

1. Mont St: $13.3M
2. Sac St: $10.1M
3. Tarleton: $9.4M
4. SDSU: $9.1M
5. W&M: $8.9M
6. Mont: $8.8M
7. NDSU: $8.3M
8. Stony Brook: $8.2M
9. South Dakota: $7.9M
10. UC Davis: $7.8M

More
https://t.co/9RqL1dXhAf

[CITIUS MAG @CitiusMag]

WATCH: Olympic champion Masai Russell sets a new American record in the women’s 100mH, running 12.14 to win the #XiamenDL. Russell is now just .02 seconds off Tobi Amusan’s world record of 12.12.

[Zach Kughn @zunitk]

D1 Regional cutoffs
East Women
800 - 2:05.49
1500 - 4:16.98
Steeple - 10:18.52
5k - 15:59.86
10k - 33:59.36

East Men
1:47.92
3:41.29
8:51.40
13:47.76
29:26.05

West Women
2:06.35
4:20.17
10:23.35
15:55.18
33:51.36

West Men
1:48.46
3:41.47
8:48.90
13:45.95
28:52.45

[Nick Brandel @MotorCityBanter]

Chauncey Billups is the only player in NBA history with a winning record against Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, including the playoffs.

6-4 vs Michael Jordan
24-21 vs Kobe Bryant
22-17 vs LeBron James

MR. BIG SHOT 🔥

#DetroitBasketball

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

You can’t love college sports enough.

[PUDDLES @scoduckz]

Oregon "hey fans, wear these colors on gameday!"

Oregon football on gameday.....

[Zach Kughn @zunitk]

@DasBoot56600578 @SportsPSD 10/10

[dylan @dylangonzalez21]

“55 points 55 rebounds 55 blocks 55 assists 55 steals”

[Montana State TF/XC @MSUBobcatsTFXC]

Blessed with the best coaches in the business 😼

#GoCatsGo