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Two-time defending NCAA champion Stanford opens the 2007 cross country season ranked first in the country among Division I women’s teams, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced today.
Stanford received nine of the 13 first-place votes in the initial poll. Michigan is ranked second. Third-ranked Colorado received the remaining four first-place […]

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If the first Division I men’s poll of the season is a reliable indicator; this should be a very interesting cross country season at the national level.
Wisconsin claimed the top spot in the poll released Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The Badgers received five first-place votes to […]

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In sweeping all of the major titles in front of them, Walter Dix of Florida State University (FSU) and Jake Arnold of the University of Arizona are the 2007 NCAA Division I Outdoor Men’s Athletes of the Year.
Dix is the Men’s Track Athlete of the Year while Arnold is the Men’s Field Athlete of the […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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There were no Division I meets last weekend and therefore no updated USTFCCCA poll. The break, a yearly tradition, gives teams an opportunity to prepare for next weekend’s regional championship meets.
All nine of the men’s and women’s regional meets will take place on Saturday, November 11th.
Here is a complete listing of the […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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There were very few changes in the Week 3 Cross Country Rankings because most teams took the weekend off. They did so in an attempt to better prepare themselves for next Saturday’s Pre-Nationals at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN.
On the men’s side, there were literally no changes. Wisconsin remained #1 with […]

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