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wilmettebeacon.com SPORTS<br />
the wilmette beacon | August 16, 2018 | 29<br />
Alumni Spotlight<br />
Rosenkranz breaks out at MIT<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
For many athletes, the<br />
hope is to improve as they<br />
progress in their careers.<br />
Given more opportunities,<br />
that often becomes<br />
the case, as it did with<br />
Josh Rosenkranz, a New<br />
Trier graduate and current<br />
Massachusetts Institute of<br />
Technology cross-country<br />
and track runner.<br />
After not competing in<br />
that many races his freshman<br />
year, Rosenkranz not<br />
only saw action in more<br />
races, but saw his results<br />
improve as well.<br />
“I feel like it’s more with<br />
running, just as you get<br />
older, and get more lifetime<br />
miles, and get stronger,<br />
improvement is somewhat<br />
expected if you can stay<br />
healthy,” he said. “And<br />
I did have some injury<br />
problems my sophomore<br />
year, so my improvement<br />
wasn’t great then, but I’ve<br />
been pretty healthy for the<br />
past 12 months, and I think<br />
I feel like I improved a lot<br />
over the past year in both<br />
cross country and track.”<br />
The Glencoe native<br />
comes from a family of<br />
runners, as his parents have<br />
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run marathons and his older<br />
brother ran cross-country<br />
and track at New Trier,<br />
but it wasn’t until his freshman<br />
year that he really got<br />
involved in the two sports.<br />
Even though he only<br />
started to get serious about<br />
running while at New Trier,<br />
it was the summer of his<br />
sophomore years when he<br />
realized he had a chance to<br />
run at the collegiate level.<br />
“I just remembered there<br />
was one workout where<br />
I hadn’t run so well my<br />
sophomore year of high<br />
school, and then one workout<br />
over the summer I did<br />
leaps and bounds better<br />
than I thought I would.”<br />
It’d be fair to say the rising<br />
senior broke out in his<br />
junior cross-country and<br />
track seasons, as he won<br />
the 10,000 meters at the<br />
New England Division III<br />
Outdoor Championships in<br />
May and was third in the<br />
5,000 meters.<br />
This followed a crosscountry<br />
season that had<br />
him earn USTFCCCA All-<br />
Region and NEWMAC<br />
All-Conference honors en<br />
route to a 16th-place finish<br />
at the NCAA Regional<br />
and a 47th-place finish at<br />
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the NCAA Championships.<br />
He also finished second at<br />
the NEWMAC Championships,<br />
all three of which<br />
were personal bests.<br />
His win in the 10,000 at<br />
the outdoor meet is actually<br />
a funny story.<br />
That race was on Friday<br />
night, and both he and a<br />
teammate were coming<br />
back for the 5,000 meters<br />
the next day. The goal was<br />
to try and score as many<br />
points in the 10K, while<br />
minimizing their energy<br />
expenditure, so they could<br />
recover for the next day.<br />
Both runners were running<br />
a pretty consistent<br />
pace throughout, and staying<br />
pretty comfortable, and<br />
everyone started falling off<br />
the back until it was just<br />
Rosenkranz and his teammate.<br />
The two ran the last<br />
three miles of it together,<br />
not really racing each other<br />
because it didn’t matter<br />
what order they finished in<br />
because they would have<br />
scored the same amount<br />
of points for the team, and<br />
they were trying to win the<br />
championship as a team.<br />
In the last 200 meters of<br />
the race, Rosenkranz had<br />
been leading, and turned to<br />
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Wojtychiw<br />
his teammate, and told him<br />
he should go ahead and win<br />
because it was his senior<br />
year, and he had placed<br />
second the year before, so<br />
coming in first would be a<br />
nice improvement for him.<br />
A nice way to cap off his<br />
MIT outdoor track career.<br />
So his teammate passed<br />
him going into the final<br />
straightaway, and then five<br />
meters before the finish line<br />
slammed on the brakes.<br />
“I flew by him and<br />
crossed the line first, and<br />
then he turned to me afterwards,<br />
and he’s like, ‘You<br />
had led us through the<br />
whole second half of the<br />
race. I couldn’t just take the<br />
win from you.’<br />
“It was definitely one of<br />
the stranger races I’ve been<br />
in, but I think it really spoke<br />
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MIT’s Josh Rosenkranz, a New Trier graduate, takes<br />
part in a cross-country race during the 2017 crosscountry<br />
season. Photo submitted<br />
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The 47th-place finish at<br />
Nationals put him seven<br />
spots short of being an All-<br />
American, something he<br />
knows he can achieve.<br />
“The change I need to<br />
make to get there I think<br />
is just going to be training<br />
more consistently,” he<br />
said. “Because the spring<br />
going into last fall, I didn’t<br />
run because I had a stress<br />
reaction, so I feel like my<br />
buildup for cross country<br />
was a little bit shortened<br />
because I hadn’t run in the<br />
spring.<br />
“I feel like having gotten<br />
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between being just outside<br />
of an All-American spot,<br />
and getting one of those<br />
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