Bowling Green State University Athletics
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MAC Championships
BGSU Hosts MAC Cross Country Championships Saturday!
October 31, 2013 | Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country
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Bowling Green, Ohio – BGSU Athletics will host the Mid-American Conference Cross Country Championships Saturday at 11 am on the campus of Bowling Green State University. The race will take place at Forrest Creason Golf Course, with the men's race starting at 11 am and the women's race at noon. Admission is free to all spectators.
RACE DETAILS
The men will compete in an 8,000-meter race to open the event, followed by the women's 6,000-meter competition. Full information is available online via the MAC Championship website at: http://www.mac-sports.com/Championships/2013CrossCountry.aspx
LAST TIME OUT
The Bowling Green women's team last ran at the Indiana State Pre-National Championship, competing on the same course that the NCAA National Championships will be run on. Six of the eight competitors set new personal bests at 6000 meters, including sophomore Andrea Alt, who placed a team-best 22nd overall in 21:46.02. The men's team competed at the Eastern Michigan Fall Classic and four of the five runners set new personal bests at 5000 meters. Greg Black had the team's top finish, placing 20th in 15:42.3 seconds.
ALT LEADS THE WAY
Andrea Alt finished as Bowling Green's top runner in all three meets she competed in this year, finishing second overall at the All-Ohio Championships and 18th at the Mel Brodt Invitational in Bowling Green. In the team's last meet at Indiana State, she placed 22nd overall, setting a new personal best time of 21:46.02 over 6,000 meters. The redshirt sophomore has developed into the anchor of the Falcon cross country team.
SALYER ON TOP
Senior Jason Salyer has competed in a lot of races for the Falcons during his time at Bowling Green, but he still set personal bests in back-to-back 8,000-meter races. At the All-Ohio Championships, he posted a time of 25:10.64 to finished third out of 289 runners and then followed that up with a time of 24:56.94 to place seventh out of 135 at the Indiana State Pre-National Meet.
EVERY RACE IS ANOTHER BEST
Redshirt freshmen Mackenzie McMillin has set a new personal best in every race she has competed in this year, culminating with a time of 22:56.70 at the Indiana State Pre-National Meet for 6,000 meters. She has also finished among the team's top five runners in every race this year. Freshmen Brittney Darah and Rachel Durbin did not compete in the season-opening meet, but they have set personal bests in each of the past three meets.
BLACK LIKES YPSILANTI
Junior Greg Black has been the Falcons' top finisher twice this year, once at the EMU Open to begin the season and then again in the EMU Fall Classic. He set 5,000-meter personal bests in both meets, placing 20th in the most recent race with a time of 15:42.3.
YOUTHFUL
Of the 22 runners who have competed for either the men's or women's teams this year, only two are seniors (Jason Salyer and Joe van Bolderen for the men). In fact, 12 are freshmen or redshirt freshmen and another seven are sophomores.
PRESEASON PREDICTIONS
In the MAC preseason coaches' poll, the BGSU women were picked to finish eighth in the MAC in 2013. The men's team was chosen to finish ninth.
STRONG ACADEMICALLY
Both the BGSU men's and women's cross country teams were named All-Academic Teams by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for the 2012 season.
