The Bowerman won't be awarded for a long six months. By then, every single finalist could have turned professional (early or otherwise), the Sixers could be good (this will not happen), and we could all be dead. But when I asked FloTrack staff to submit their predictions for who the finalists and winners will be, the seven of us were unanimous--Tennessee sprinter Christian Coleman and Oregon 800 runner Raevyn Rogers will be holding heavy trophies in Phoenix in December. Joining us in the takeage are summer interns Harry Prevor and Ariel Jones.

Here are our women's picks; the actual finalists will be announced by the USTFCCCA on Wednesday afternoon.

Women	Dennis	Taylor	Gordon	Jojo	Harry	Adam	Ariel
Winner	Rogers	Rogers	Rogers	Rogers	Rogers	Rogers	Rogers
Finalist 2	Williams	Williams	Williams	Ewen	Orji	Williams	Williams
Finalist 3	Ewen	Orji	Schweizer	Schweizer	Schweizer	Ewen	Ewen

And these are our men's picks; the three finalists will be announced by the USTFCCCA on Thursday.

Men	Dennis	Taylor	Gordon	Jojo	Harry	Adam	Ariel
Winner	Coleman	Coleman	Coleman	Coleman	Coleman	Coleman	Coleman
Finalist 2	Kerley	Kerley	Kerley	Kerley	Kerley	Kerley	Kerley
Finalist 3	Bates	Cheserek	Korir	Victor	Holloway	Cheserek	Cheserek

These picks are based on the already-announced ten semifinalists.

The men are Coleman, Fred Kerley (Texas A&M), Lindon Victor (Texas A&M), Ioannis Kyriazis (Texas A&M), Edward Cheserek (Oregon), Grant Holloway (Florida), KeAndre Bates (Florida), Josh Kerr (New Mexico), Emmanuel Korir (UTEP), and Filip Mihaljevic (Virginia).

The women are Rogers, Kendell Williams (Georgia), Keturah Orji (Georgia), Maggie Ewen (Arizona State), Karissa Schweizer (Missouri), Tobi Amusan (UTEP), Raven Saunders (Ole Miss), Kyra Jefferson (Florida), Danniel Thomas (Kent State), and Shakima Wimbley (Miami).

Some notes here:

-Rogers won the indoor and outdoor 800s, anchored an NCAA runner-up (and No. 2 all-time) 4x400 indoors, anchored the NCAA-winning and collegiate record-breaking 4x400 outdoors, and broke the 800 collegiate record outdoors.

-Coleman won the indoor and outdoor 200, the indoor 60, and the outdoor 100, making him the first man to pull off that quadruple since 2002. He also tied the collegiate 60 record indoors, broke the collegiate 100 record outdoors, and ran the No. 2 indoor and outdoor marks in the 200.

-Only three of us--Taylor, Ariel, and Adam--think that Edward Cheserek, the winningest man in the history of Division I sports, will even be a finalist. Oregon head coach Robert Johnson held court on this topic in Eugene two weeks ago: 



-We all picked Fred Kerley as the second finalist. The fact that none of us think that Kerley will beat out Coleman shows how much winning a Bowerman is dependent on timing; Kerley's resume is superior in every way to Deon Lendore's, but Lendore won the 2014 Bowerman.

-There is a decent chance that one of these pairs of teammates ends up becoming Bowerman finalists: Fred Kerley/Lindon Victor (Texas A&M), Grant Holloway/KeAndre Bates (Florida), Kendell Williams/Keturah Orji (Georgia). The first two men's Bowerman awards had pairs of teammates as finalists--Galen Rupp and Ashton Eaton in 2009 and Eaton and Andy Wheating in 2010. It hasn't happened since, and has never happened on the women's side.

-Other than Cheserek, none of the leading men's contenders has been a finalist before. Georgia triple jumper Keturah Orji was a finalist last year.

-If Rogers wins, she'll be the third Oregon woman in four years to win it after Laura Roesler in 2014 and Jenna Prandini in 2015. 

-Kendell Williams and Lindon Victor would be the first multi-athletes to make the final three outside of since-retired power couple Ashton Eaton (2009-10) and Brianne Theisen-Eaton (2012).

-Field and multi athletes have won half of the men's Bowermans; only Galen Rupp, Cam Levins, Ngoni Makusha, and Lendore have won as strictly track athletes. The opposite is true for the women's Bowerman, where track athletes have won all eight. Between the two Georgia studs and Arizona State thrower Maggie Ewen--who broke the collegiate record in the hammer and scored 21 points in the hammer, discus, and shot and NCAAs--it's likely that there will be at least one field finalist.

-Nothing outside of the collegiate track and field season gets considered. So Cheserek and Schweizer's NCAA cross titles don't count; neither will anything athletes like Rogers, Kerley, or Coleman do at the U.S. or world championships this summer.

-None of us have an actual Bowerman vote.

-Enjoy the single most exciting moment of the collegiate season, Rogers clinching a team title and collegiate record for Oregon in the outdoor 4x400.