 Rupp came back in 2006 to defeat two-time Pac-10 champion Robert Cheseret, Bernard Lagat's brother, of the University of Arizona to become Oregon's 10th male runner to win a Pac-10 Conference cross country title.He also led a young Oregon team to victory over the Stanford Cardinal, who had won the previous six Pac-10 titles.Rupp went on to finish sixth in the 2006 NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship.