Scott Keeney: OUT at Great Lakes Regional

[SycamoreStateofMind]

Scott Keeney has officially been ruled "OUT" for this weekends Great Lakes Regional Cross Country Meet at IU. The 4 time all MVC preform has a serious back injury that will cause him to miss the meet.

This is a monumental blow to the Sycamores who hope to run well enough to earn an at large bid for Nationals a week from Monday. The good thing is the Sycamores are a deep team and can find a replacement, the bad news is you don't replace a former national qualifier and a 4 time All MVC performer.

Consider this bulletin board material...

As much as I love my Sycamores and as many of those guys are my former teammates and friends, this will be to much to over come. The Sycamores ware a young team with a bunch of talent, but I don't see how they will be able to overcome this?

This Sycamore team has a lot of fight in it and you can be damm sure they wont go down without a fight!

But what a rough way to end what was a brilliant Cross Country career for my good friend and former teammate/roommate Scott Keeney!

 

[Sycamores23]

I hadn't heard that. That's a bummer. Congrats to him though for getting the MVC State Farm Good Neighbor Award.

 

[ISUCC]

this is a bad bad deal for Scott, hopefully the rest of the team steps it up in his absence and places top 5! let's go Sycamores!

:sycamores:

 

[Family Tree]

Sorry to hear it Scott. Congrats on a helluva cross country career as a sycamore. If things don't work out for the team goin to nationals get healthy so we can see some fast track times.

 

[Callmedoc]

You guys act like its already over......correct me if I am wrong...if ISU makes cross country nationals, he can run right?

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

That is very true... But he would only have one more week to get ready and given that he has not ran all week, I would say he's not in good shape. If he has a stress fracture in his hip, it could very well be career ending at this point.

 

[bkinsey]

If the team does make Nationals and he is able to run, I would not worry about him being out of shape. I mean a whole summer and season of training will not just go away that quickly and with the kind of talent Scott has he will be fine as long as his hip/back is fine.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

When I said not in "good shape" I was talking about his injury not so much his conditioning. I understand that he has been cross training and that he would be ok from a condition standpoint. The fact that he is not able to run this weekend tells me that he is not in very "good shape" from an injury standpoint - thus he's hurting pretty bad.