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Watch NCAA Championships Live on CBS College Sports
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 2:00 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, College
The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association reported today that CBS College Sports (formerly CSTV), will be airing the NCAA Division I Championships from Des Moines, Ia., live on the Internet at the following link:
http://all-access.cstv.com/cstv/player/player.html?code=ncaa&sport=c-track&category=live&media=69621
I’m not sure what time the coverage starts, but you can check in every hour or so. You must sign-up for the site to view the coverage, but there is no charge.
Stadium Record & NCAA 10,000m Title for Koll
Posted June 13th, 2008 at 9:00 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, College
Hometown favorite Lisa Koll, the American collegiate 10,000m record holder from Iowa State University, shattered the Drake Stadium record here tonight to win the NCAA women’s 10,000m, while Texas A&M-Corpus Christi senior Shadrack Songok successfully defended his NCAA men’s 10,000 crown. Both athletes had to contend with warm and humid conditions as the NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships concluded its second day.
Koll, who earlier this spring shattered the American Collegiate 10,000m record with a 32:11.13 at Stanford University, charged into the lead less than a lap into the race and proceeded to run away from the field, covering the first 1600m in 5:13 and 3200m in 10:25.
Behind her, a tightly bunched pack that included Stanford frosh Alex Gits, Providence’s Danette Doetzel, Boston University’s Marisa Ryan, Iowa’s Diane Nukuri, Arkansas’ Denise Bargiachi, Wisconsin’s Katrina Rundhaug, and several others battled for the medals and critical team points. At 3200, the chase pack was almost 30 seconds behind Koll.
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Josh McDougal named USATF Athlete of the Week
Posted November 27th, 2007 at 4:43 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
Josh McDougal has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after winning the men’s NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship Monday, November 19 at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind.
A senior at Liberty University, McDougal out-kicked Galen Rupp of Oregon in the men’s 10 km race in a thrilling homestretch battle, crossing the finish line in 29 minutes 22 seconds.
Rupp finished just one second behind in 29:23. McDougal is the first Liberty athlete to win an NCAA Cross Country title.
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McDougal Prevails Over Rupp at NCAA D-I Cross Country Championships
Posted November 19th, 2007 at 7:30 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Cross Country, College
The coaches’ pre-meet rankings held up as the top-ranked Oregon men and Stanford women won the team titles at today’s NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships at Terre Haute’s Laverne Gibson Championships Cross Country Course.
Liberty’s Josh McDougal took an exciting men’s race over a dry course with temperatures in the upper 50s.
Despite the near perfect racing conditions, the men’s race sent out slowly with nearly everyone still in contention through 3 km in 8:57, and the halfway point in 15:09.
“I wasn’t surprised that the race went out so slow,” said McDougal after the race. “Two years under nearly identical conditions, the race went out slow.”
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Kipyego Too Tough To Beat in Women’s NCAA XC Champs
Posted November 19th, 2007 at 6:00 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Cross Country, College
From gun to tape, the women’s division of today’s NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships had only one leader: Sally Kipyego of Texas Tech. The junior from Kenya ran away from the field to defend her individual title in 19:30.9 (unofficial) over the 6 km course in Terre Haute, Ind.
Last year, Kipyego sprinted to the fore at the gun and never looked back. However, Kipyego was content to run most of the first mile with a lead pack this year that included three others: Colorado’s Jenny Barringer, the 2006 runner-up, Florida State’s Susan Kuijken, and Iowa’s Diana Nukuri.
Kipyego started to edge ahead on a long downhill just past the mile passing the 2 km in 6:26. Barringer, Kuijken, and Nukuri were only a second behind at the split before the field made their way up the course’s second long incline.
From that point on, Kipyego simply extended her lead over the chase pack — passing 4 km in 13:01, 11 seconds ahead of Barringer, Kuijken, and Nukuri.
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NCAA Cross Country Championships to Be Broadcast on the Web
Posted November 15th, 2007 at 2:20 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
Monday’s NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships will be broadcast on the internet, according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
The meet, one of the most exciting and competitive foot races held in the United States, will be contested at Indiana State University on Monday afternoon. The men’s 10 km race goes off at 12:08 p.m. eastern time followed by the women’s 6 km race at 12:58 p.m.
The broadcast will be produced by CSTV and will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. ET. A link for the broadcast will be available at http://www.ustfccca.org.
NCAA D-I Cross Country Announces Championship Qualifiers
Posted November 12th, 2007 at 10:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced today the team and individual qualifiers for the 2007 Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.
In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective NCAA regions.
Thirty-one teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the nine regions, for a total of 18 teams. Thirteen additional teams were selected at-large.
Thirty-eight individuals, the first four athletes from each region who are not a part of a qualifying team and two additional qualifiers, were selected to participate in each championship. All individual qualifiers must finish in the top 25 in their region.
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Lehigh set to host the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional XC Champs on Saturday
Posted November 9th, 2007 at 9:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: News & Results, Cross Country, College
Lehigh will host the 2007 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Saturday morning on the Goodman Campus Cross Country Course. The Division I men’s 10K race will start at 11 a.m., followed by the Division I women’s 6K race at 12:15 p.m. Goodman Campus will also serve as host to the Division III Mideast Regional, with the women’s 6K race starting at 1:15, followed by the men’s 8K race at 2:15.
The Division I men’s race will feature 33 schools, including defending champion and nationally ranked Georgetown (No. 14) as well as Patriot League champion American and Paul Short winner Villanova. The Mountain Hawks will send eight runners to the course, led by freshman Dan McClimon and junior Dan DeWitt.
The women’s race will feature 33 schools, including defending champion and nationally ranked Princeton (No. 4), West Virginia (No. 14), Georgetown (No. 20) and Penn State (No. 28). The Princeton women are also the winners of this year’s Paul Short Run, finishing ahead of West Virginia. The Brown and White will send nine runners to the course, led by junior Shannon Alejandro, who was named to the All-Patriot League first team.
Boston College to Host NCAA D-I Northeast Region Cross Country Championships
Posted November 9th, 2007 at 8:05 AM by Martin Kennedy
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
The Boston College men’s and women’s cross country teams will play host to the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships held at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass., on Sat. Nov. 10.
The men, who are ranked 13th in the Northeast bracket, will start competition at 2:30 p.m. They will race amongst other top-ranked squads including Iona (1), Providence (2), Syracuse (3), Cornell (4) and Columbia (5).
The Eagles turned in a 10th place finish at last year’s regional championship. Senior captain Patrick Mellea ran the course in 31:36.8, qualifying him for the NCAA Championship.
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Wisconsin Badgers Capture Record Ninth-Straight Big Ten Cross Country Title
Posted October 29th, 2007 at 1:45 PM by Martha Jones
Section: News & Results, Cross Country
The Wisconsin men’s cross country team had five runners finish in the the top-10 to score 33 points and win its ninth-consecutive Big Ten Conference title Sunday at the Ohio State University Golf Course in Columbus, Ohio.
With the win, the fifth-ranked Badgers set a new conference record for consecutive conference championships. UW also held the previous record of eight straight titles between 1985 and 1992. No. 22 Minnesota finished second with 65 points while Ohio State was third with 91 points.
Wisconsin was led by junior Matt Withrow (Tinley Park, Ill.), who took home the individual title by completing the 8,000-meter course in a time of 23 minutes, 44.37 seconds. He finished more than three seconds ahead of second-place finisher Hassan Mead of Minnesota. Fellow junior, Stu Eagon (Portland, Ore.), finished fifth in a time of 23:55.35. Both Withrow and Eagon earned first-team All-Big Ten honors.
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- Songok upsets Rupp; Kipyego cruises in NCAA 10,000m
Texas Tech’s Sally Kipyego won the women’s 10,000 meters as expected on the second day of the NCAA D-I Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Sacramento Hornet Stadium, but Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s Shadrack Songok upset favored Galen Rupp in the men’s 10,000.
Fans eagerly anticipated the men’s 10,000. Rupp, a junior at the University of Oregon, […] - Collegiate stars ready to shine at NCAA Championships
Several up-and-coming stars of track and field are set to shine as the 2007 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships get underway. The Florida State men’s team and Auburn’s women’s team will look to defend their 2006 team titles at the Championships, which began yesterday and run through Saturday, June 9, at Sacramento […]
- Wisconsin, Arizona St earn first NCAA D-I indoor titles
Wisconsin senior Chris Solinsky added the 5000m title to his admirable collection, but was out-sprinted in the 3000m by rising star Lopez Lomong of Northern Arizona (SUD) 7:49.74 to 7:51.69, career bests for both.
NCAA cross country champion Sally Kipyego had a relatively easy time with her 3000/5000 titles, the former over Duke’s Shannon Rowbury […] - Colorado men, Stanford women win ‘06 Cross Country National Championships
The Stanford women managed to hold onto their lead and season-long number ranking at the championship meet held Monday November 20, in Terre Haute, Indiana; winning their second consecutive NCAA title. Lead by coach Peter Tegen, who in his second year with the team, was named the “Peter Tegen Coach of the Year,” an award […]
- WEEK 7 XC RANKINGS: Big Jumps after Regionals; All-Region Teams Announced
After this week’s regional meets, Wisconsin managed to hold on to its lead in the Division 1 men’s cross country poll while FSU and BYU made major jumps to move into the top 10, with FSU moving seven spots to number 10 and BYU moving six spots to number 8.
The biggest excitement happened with […] - Week 6 XC Rankings: Badgers & Cardinals Lead Again Following “Conference Week”
Following an exciting “Conference Weekend”, the Wisconsin men and Stanford women easily retained their #1 rankings in the Week 6 USTFCCCA Division I polls.
The Wisconsin men won its 8th consecutive Big Ten Conference title and the Stanford women won its 11th straight Pac-10 Conference Championship - showing once again why they are the […] - No Week 5 USTFCCCA XC Rankings
We always post the weekly D-I cross country rankings just after they are made public on Tuesdays.
However, there will be no D-I USTFCCCA rankings this week.
Don Kopriva of the USTFCCA explains:[No] rankings this week for the men (or the women) because there were no meets of any consequence last weekend (the weekend before […]
- Week 4 XC Rankings: Big Jumps Following Pre-Nationals Event & More
The Wisconsin men and Stanford women retained their #1 rankings according to the Week 4 USTFCCCA Division I polls.
The Wisconsin men didn’t participate in the Pre-Nationals event. However, they did win the Jim Drews Invitational while resting their best runners.
The Stanford women were unanimously voted as the #1 female team […]
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