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NCAA Cross Country Championships

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On Saturday, both the men's and women's teams will be competing at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Kentucky hosted by the University of Louisville. The women will start at 10 am followed by the men at 11:15 am. Thanks to two at large bids, the men will make their 21st straight appearance and 19 out of 20 for the women.

NCAA Championships 6K Course Map



NCAA Championships 10K Course Map


Meet Central: http://www.gocards.com/sports/m-xc/spec-rel/lou-meet-central.html
Louisville Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/UofLsports
Louisville Track Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/uofltrackxc



I don't know if the school will provide updates but I'll try to get them if I can.
 
Selections released for national meet

INDIANAPOLIS – The Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced the team and individual qualifiers for the 2012 Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals qualified in their respective regional competitions.

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 were selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. All individual qualifiers finished in the top 25 in their region.

Louisville will host the Championships on Saturday, Nov. 17, at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky. The women’s race will begin at noon ET, followed by the men’s race at 1:15 p.m. ET.
MEN’S AUTOMATIC QUALIFYING TEAMS MEN’S AT-LARGE TEAMS
Arkansas Colorado
BYU Duke
Columbia Indiana
Eastern Kentucky Michigan State
Florida State New Mexico
Georgetown North Carolina State
Georgia Notre Dame
Iona Oregon
Michigan Princeton
Northern Arizona Syracuse
Oklahoma Tulsa
Oklahoma State UCLA
Portland Virginia Tech
Stanford
Texas
Villanova
Virginia
Wisconsin

WOMEN’S AUTOMATIC QUALIFYING TEAMS WOMEN’S AT-LARGE TEAMS
Arkansas Arizona
Connecticut Boston College
Duke Butler
Florida State Colorado
Georgetown Cornell
Iowa State Florida
Michigan Georgia
Michigan State Harvard
New Mexico Minnesota
Oklahoma State Notre Dame
Oregon Toledo
Penn State Villanova
Providence Washington
Stanford
Texas
Vanderbilt
Weber State
William & Mary

MEN’S INDIVIDUAL QUALIFIERS
GREAT LAKES REGION SOUTH REGION
John Mascari, Indiana State Mark Parrish, Florida
Michael Heller, Kent State Jimmy Clark, Florida
Donald Roys, Ohio State Nabil Hamid, Kennesaw State
Johnnie Guy, Purdue Peter Okwera, Tennessee
Matt McClintock, Purdue
MID-ATLANTIC REGION SOUTH CENTRAL REGION
Mark Allen, American Matt Johnsen, Lamar
Jim Spisak, Duquesne David Rooney, McNeese State
Sam Masters, Penn State Xavier Rodriguez, Stephen F. Austin
Travis Mahoney, Temple James Hodges, Texas A&M
Henry Lelei, Texas A&M
MIDWEST REGION SOUTHEAST REGION
Hunter Mickow, Illinois Luis Orta, Kentucky
Jannis Topfer, Illinois Paul Chelimo, UNC-Greensboro
Max Storms, Missouri Paul Katam, UNC-Greensboro
Brian Dixon, Southern Illinois Gilbert Kemboi, USC Upstate
MOUNTAIN REGION Joseph Chebet, Western Kentucky
Nate Jewkes, Southern Utah WEST REGION
Kennedy Kithuka, Texas Tech Lawi Lalang, Arizona
Josh McCabe, Utah Valley Stephen Sambu, Arizona
Anthony Rotich, UTEP Joey Brywater, Washington
NORTHEAST REGION Todd Wakefield, Washington State
Rich Peters, Boston U
Marksim Korolev, Harvard
James Leakos, Harvard
Shane Quinn, Providence

WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL QUALIFIERS
GREAT LAKES REGION SOUTH REGION
Kelsey Duerksen, Indiana Katharine Showalter, Georgia State
Julie Accurso, Ohio Joane Pierre, Jacksonville
Ashley Beutler, WIsconsin Katie Breathitt, Mississippi
Gabi Anzalone, Wisconsin Lauren D’Alessio, Samford
MID-ATLANTIC REGION SOUTH CENTRAL REGION
Meghan McGlinchey, La Salle Kristina Aubert, Arkansas State
Annie-Norah Beveridge, Navy Mary Alenbratt, SMU
Greta Feldman, Princeton Lauren Smith, Stephen F. Austin
Sarah-Anne Brault, West Virginia Agnes Kemboi, TCU
MIDWEST REGION SOUTHEAST REGION
Mareike Schrulle, Iowa Cally Macumber, Kentucky
Laura Galvan, Kansas State Chelsea Oswald, Kentucky
Gina Valgoi, Loyola Chicago Jennifer Klugh, Liberty
Jessica Engel, Oklahoma Lianne Farber, North Carolina
Aliphine Tuliamuk-Bolton, Wichita State Catherine White, Virginia
MOUNTAIN REGION WEST REGION
Courtney Schultz, New Mexico State Shelby Houlihan, Arizona State
Rochelle Kanuho, Northern Arizona Laura Hollander, Cal Poly
Amanda Mergaert, Utah Kelsey Santisteban, California
Risper Kimaiyo, UTEP Sheree Shea, Loyola Marymount
NORTHEAST REGION
Margaret Connelly, Brown
Abbey D’Agostino, Dartmouth
Keely Maguire, New Hampshire
Sarah Pagano, Syracuse
 
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Selections released for national meet

INDIANAPOLIS – The Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced the team and individual qualifiers for the 2012 Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals qualified in their respective regional competitions.

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 were selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. All individual qualifiers finished in the top 25 in their region.


anyone know why we were not an automatic qualifier? Didnt we win the P12 championship? Arent we ranked in the top 5? Those two would seem to garner an AQ.
 
anyone know why we were not an automatic qualifier? Didnt we win the P12 championship? Arent we ranked in the top 5? Those two would seem to garner an AQ.

To be an AQ, you need to finish the regional in 1st or 2nd place. Both teams finished in 3rd.
 
For anyone interested, there is a live stream for the championships if you're not going to travel to Louisville.




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BOULDER - The University of Colorado seventh-rated men's cross country team is set to compete at its 21st straight NCAA Championship on Saturday, November 17, in Louisville, Ky. The 23rd-ranked women's team will also be at the championships as they will race in their 20th meet in 21 years.
Neither team qualified automatically this year as both finished third at regionals. They each received at-large bids later that same day to punch their tickets.
Of the 31 men's teams participating, the CU men will face three other Pac-12 opponents in No. 2 Stanford, No. 16 Oregon and No. 22 UCLA. The women have four other Pac-12 competitors in No. 2 Oregon, No. 4 Stanford, No. 5 Arizona and No. 7 Washington. The men won their second Pac-12 title in as many years on Oct. 27, while the women placed fifth.
The women's 6k race is slated for a 10 a.m. (MST) start and the men's 10k race will start approximately at 11:15 a.m. at E.P. 'Tom' Sawyer State Park. An awards ceremony will follow both races. The races will be streamed online at NCAA.com and results will be posted after the races.
After a long stretch of having the championships in Terre Haute, Ind., Louisville will host the championship for the first time. This is the first time in NCAA history that the event will take place in the state of Kentucky. It is also the first time since World War II that the meet will be on a Saturday instead of Monday. Due to the new formula, this is the earliest meet in Division I history.
Junior Jake Hurysz has lead the Buffs in three of its four team scoring meets this season, most recently taking sixth at regionals. Hurysz won the Rocky Mountain Shootout to start the season and placed fourth overall at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational. The only meet he didn't lead the Buffs in was the Pac-12 Championships when he was CU's No. 2 scorer with an eighth-place finish. Sophomore Blake Theroux led CU at the conference meet by coming in seventh.
The CU men were third at nationals last year with 144 points. Richard Medina was eighth to lead CU and had the best finish at nationals for the Buffs since 2007 when Brent Vaughn placed fifth. Andy Wacker was 20th and Joe Bosshard placed 24th. All three earned All-American honors for their finishes.
The Buffs have been ranked as high as second this season due to its depth. The Buffs will not be bringing a single scorer back to nationals this year. Seniors Martin Medina and Aric Van Halen have both run at the championship but have not scored for CU.
On the women's side, junior Shalaya Kipp has once again been the top runner for the Buffs. She made her first appearance of the season at pre-nationals, finishing 21st overall, after taking some time off after competing at the Olympic Games in August. She improved to 11th at Pac-12s, but seems to really be hitting her stride as she was the runner-up at regionals last week.
True freshman Carrie Verdon has been a very consistent No. 2 scorer for the Buffs in her first year. She was third at the Rocky Mountain Shootout, 37th at pre-nationals, 16th at Pac-12s and was seventh at regionals. Several other Buffs have scored for the team this year including Courtney Bouchet, Camille Logan, Jana Stolting, Liz Tremblay and Rachel Viger.
Colorado was 11th overall at the 2011 championship, totaling 335 points. Kipp led the Buffs with a 19th-place finish and Emma Coburn was 20th overall. Both earned All-American honors.
Colorado has a great history at the NCAA Championships. CU took home either an individual or team trophy from 2000-04. Kara Grgas-Wheeler won in 2000, leading the women to their first team championship. The men followed up with a team championship in 2001. Jorge Torres won the individual title in 2002 and Dathan Ritzenhein won in 2003. Both teams took home hardware in 2004 and the men won the title again in 2006.

 
Here is a preview of the Pac 12 teams competing from pac12.com
http://pac-12.com/Sports/CrossCount...ss-country-teams-take-aim-at-NCAA-titles.aspx


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Updated November 16, 2012
By the Pac-12 Conference
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif.- A combined nine Pac-12 teams are headed to Louisville, Ky., for the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Nov. 17. It is the first national championship of the fall season up for grabs. And with the Conference leading the country in all-time team national titles, NCAA Championships has been where Pac-12 teams have risen to the top.

On the men’s side, four teams will be representing the Conference, as well as four individuals. Stanford qualified to compete at the championship after winning the NCAA West Regional last weekend. The Cardinal is under the direction of first-year head coach Chris Miltenberg who made his way to Palo Alto after leading his Georgetown women’s squad to its first-ever NCAA title in 2011. Miltenberg will be hoping for his personal repeat with either/or the men’s or women’s squad from Stanford.

UCLA and Oregon earned at-large bids after finishing third and fourth, respectively, at the regional meet. Colorado is the fourth representative from the Conference heading to Louisville. Under the direction of head coach Mark Wetmore, the Buffs are making their 42nd NCAA Championships appearance. CU won its second-straight Pac-12 title and placed third at the NCAA Mountain Regional to earn an at-large bid.

All four of the men’s teams headed to the NCAA Championships are ranked in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) top-30. Both the Cardinal and Buffs have been in the top 10 all season. Stanford leads all Conferences teams as it is ranked No. 2 in the poll. Colorado is No. 7, Oregon is No. 16 and UCLA is No. 22.

Individually, the Conference is sending a contingent of four men’s runners who can only challenge for the individual crown. Arizona’s Lawi Lalang has been unbeatable, literally, the last two seasons. He is the defending national champion after winning the race last year by 13 seconds over the second-place runner. Lalang is coming off a win at the Pac-12 Championships and the NCAA West Regional. On his heels is teammate Stephen Sambu, who did not compete in cross country last year. Back this season, he has finished just behind his fellow Wildcat at the Conference and regional meets, nearly defeating Lalang at the Pac-12 Championships. The Wildcat duo will be joined by Washington’s Joey Bywater and Washington State’s Todd Wakefield in Louisville. Both also earned individual at-large bids after solid performances at the regional meet.

The women’s Pac-12 contingent of teams is strong, and any one of the five could claim the NCAA title. Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford and Washington will all represent the Conference in Louisville. Four of those teams are ranked in the top seven in the USTFCCCA Coaches poll and all five are in the top 25. The Ducks are the highest-rated Pac-12 women’s team, entering the national championship with the No. 2 ranking. The Cardinal are not far behind, ranking fourth and the Wildcats are fifth. The Huskies are seventh and the Buffs are No. 23.

Oregon seems to be running strong, coming off back-to-back wins at the Pac-12 Championships and the NCAA West Regional. Both titles were the team’s first since 1995. The Ducks are led by senior Jordan Hasay, who was named the USTFCCCA West Region Female Athlete of the Year for the third-consecutive year after winning the third-straight West region title. Oregon seems to have put together one of its strongest teams in recent history and is looking to end its national championship drought, which dates back to 1987.

Led by senior Kathy Kroeger, the Cardinal were second at the West region meet, automatically qualifying for the national meet. Kroeger has challenged Hasay every season, finishing in the top three of the Pac-12 Championships in each of the last two season before finally breaking through to win the individual crown three weeks ago in Santa Clarita, Calif. Meanwhile, Arizona has been on the rise the last few years and is relying on a contingent of veteran runners to Louisville.

Washington has been a solid team all season. Last year, the Huskies placed second behing the national champion by just eight points. It was the closest margin of victory at the race since 1998.

Colorado was third at the Mountain Regional meet, led by senior Shalaya Kipp. She was second at the regional meet but is coming off a career season where she qualified for Team USA at the 2012 London Olympics in the steeplechase.

Individually, Utah’s Amanda Mergaert makes her third-straight appearance at the NCAA Championships as an individual after placing in the top 25 at the Mountain regional. California sophomore Kelsey Santisteban makes her second-career appearance at the national championship meet.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals qualified in their respective regional competitions. 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 were also selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. All individual qualifiers finished in the top 25 in their region.

Pac-12 teams appear to be coming on strong as the season concludes on Saturday, Nov. 17. With so much talent on the men’s and women’s side, this could be the year the Pac-12 stands atop the podium for the first time since 2008.
 
Unofficially: Oregon, Providence, Florida State, Stanford, Michigan, Duke, Connecticut, Washington, New Mexico, Iowa State
Buffs not in top 20
 
Half-way through the race the Buffs were in 28th with Kipp in 27th, so we'll see where they finished
 
I was hoping Louisville would have provided updates throughout the race but maybe there were too many teams
 
Looks like Providence are the new NCAA champions just edging out Oregon. The Buffs finished 24th.
 
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