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Korolev Adds to Stanford's XC Title Hopes

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DyeStatCOLLEGE.com   Jul 30th 2014, 3:06pm
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Recipe for a Contender

Published by GoStanford on July 30, 2014

With one call, the Stanford men’s cross country team became a national championship contender.

It happened last spring when a nervous Maksim Korolev called Chris Miltenberg, Stanford’s Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field. Suffice to say, the call went well. Now, Korolev, the third-place finisher at the 2013 NCAA Championships while running for Harvard, is headed to Stanford for his final collegiate season.

He joins a Cardinal team that returns first-team outdoor track All-Americans Jim and Joe Rosa, and Michael Atchoo, and the top three finishers from the 2014 U.S. junior national cross country championship. Indeed, the Cardinal now looks loaded enough to make a run at its first NCAA title since 2003. Jim Rosa was fifth at NCAA's, giving Stanford two top-five finishers heading into this season.

However, Korolev leaves an important chapter of his life behind at Harvard, where he earned a degree in human developmental and regenerative biology last spring. In California, there is no way to duplicate training on tracks so cold and frozen that only a thin trail cuts through the snow to the tartan surface. It was on mornings like these that made Korolev one of the finest collegiate runners in the land. 

He also leaves behind a city that will always remain a part of him. It was a place where he observed the worst and the best of human nature, through the lens of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Korolev still had a year left of eligibility in both cross country and outdoor track and field, which is why he has come to Stanford. Ivy League schools only allow athletes to compete within a four-year window. Korolev’s window shut last spring. To use his final season of eligibility, Korolev needed to go elsewhere.

“I never took a visit,” Korolev said. “But it was an easy choice. Coach Miltenberg is a really good coach -- I’m excited to be coached by him – and I love Silicon Valley. I’d like to get into the tech industry and do something significant.”



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