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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Friday, September 12
Bowling Green, Ohio (Forest Creason Golf Course)
6:30 PM
Bowling Green State University
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Mel Brodt Collegiate Invitational
The Falcons huddle up before the start of last week's race.
Photo by: BGSU Strategic Communications
Cross Country Hosts Lone Meet Of Season On Friday
September 10, 2014 | Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country
Bowling Green, Ohio. – The Bowling Green State University men's and women's cross country programs will host the annual Mel Brodt Collegiate Invitational Friday evening. The race is BGSU's lone home meet of the 2014 season.
RACE DETAILS
The 8,000-meter men's race is slated to begin at 6:30 pm and the 5,000-meter women's race will follow at approximately 7:10 pm. The entire course will be on the back nine holes of the Forest Creason Golf Course. Full meet details are available by CLICKING HERE.
THE COMPETITORS
BGSU's women will compete against Toledo, who placed second in the MAC Championships last season, Cleveland State and Siena Heights. The men will race against Toledo and Siena Heights.
LAST TIME OUT
The men's and women's teams last competed at the Toledo Invite Aug. 29 and each finished third out of three teams in their respective races. The women's team finished four runners under 18:26, and was led by junior Becca Rae. The men sent six freshmen to the line at the tri-meet against Eastern Michigan and Toledo, where Nathan Kuck finished seventh overall with a personal best time of 16:07 in the 5,000-meter distance.
RAE-CING TO THE FRONT
Rae set a personal record in the 5K (17:56) at the Toledo Invite where she placed fourth overall and first on the team. She finished as the team's top runner for the first time in her career at the 2013 MAC Championships, setting a new personal best time of 22:01.61 in the 6,000-meter distance to place 21st overall. She had been the team's No. 2 runner in the Mel Brodt Invitational and the Indiana State Pre-National Meet in 2013.
ALT LEADS THE WAY
Andrea Alt finished as Bowling Green's top runner in four of the five meets she competed in last year, finishing 65th out of 227 runners at NCAA Regionals, second overall at the All-Ohio Championships and 18th at the Mel Brodt Invitational in Bowling Green. In the team's meet at Indiana State, she placed 22nd overall, setting a new personal best time of 21:46.02 over 6,000 meters. The redshirt junior has developed into the anchor of the Falcon cross country team.
BLACK PROVIDES SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Redshirt senior Greg Black was the Falcons' top finisher twice last year, once at the EMU Open to begin the season and then again in the EMU Fall Classic. He competed in six of the team's seven meets and provides experience and senior leadership on and off the course to a young men's squad.
YOUTHFUL
Only two out of nine runners return this season from the men's team (Black and Jeremy Richard). On the women's side, six of the 16 runners are freshmen or redshirt freshmen, and another five are sophomores of redshirt sophomores. The women will be without any seniors this season.
PRESEASON PREDICTIONS
In the USTFCCCA preseason poll, the BGSU women were ranked No. 15 in the Great Lakes Region. This is the team's first regional ranking of the four-year Lou Snelling era.
STRONG ACADEMICALLY
The women's team tied a program record with three Academic All-MAC members in 2013 and the men's cross country team added two more as announced by the MAC last season. Three more women and three more men earned honorable mention status on the teams.
RACE DETAILS
The 8,000-meter men's race is slated to begin at 6:30 pm and the 5,000-meter women's race will follow at approximately 7:10 pm. The entire course will be on the back nine holes of the Forest Creason Golf Course. Full meet details are available by CLICKING HERE.
THE COMPETITORS
BGSU's women will compete against Toledo, who placed second in the MAC Championships last season, Cleveland State and Siena Heights. The men will race against Toledo and Siena Heights.
LAST TIME OUT
The men's and women's teams last competed at the Toledo Invite Aug. 29 and each finished third out of three teams in their respective races. The women's team finished four runners under 18:26, and was led by junior Becca Rae. The men sent six freshmen to the line at the tri-meet against Eastern Michigan and Toledo, where Nathan Kuck finished seventh overall with a personal best time of 16:07 in the 5,000-meter distance.
RAE-CING TO THE FRONT
Rae set a personal record in the 5K (17:56) at the Toledo Invite where she placed fourth overall and first on the team. She finished as the team's top runner for the first time in her career at the 2013 MAC Championships, setting a new personal best time of 22:01.61 in the 6,000-meter distance to place 21st overall. She had been the team's No. 2 runner in the Mel Brodt Invitational and the Indiana State Pre-National Meet in 2013.
ALT LEADS THE WAY
Andrea Alt finished as Bowling Green's top runner in four of the five meets she competed in last year, finishing 65th out of 227 runners at NCAA Regionals, second overall at the All-Ohio Championships and 18th at the Mel Brodt Invitational in Bowling Green. In the team's meet at Indiana State, she placed 22nd overall, setting a new personal best time of 21:46.02 over 6,000 meters. The redshirt junior has developed into the anchor of the Falcon cross country team.
BLACK PROVIDES SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Redshirt senior Greg Black was the Falcons' top finisher twice last year, once at the EMU Open to begin the season and then again in the EMU Fall Classic. He competed in six of the team's seven meets and provides experience and senior leadership on and off the course to a young men's squad.
YOUTHFUL
Only two out of nine runners return this season from the men's team (Black and Jeremy Richard). On the women's side, six of the 16 runners are freshmen or redshirt freshmen, and another five are sophomores of redshirt sophomores. The women will be without any seniors this season.
PRESEASON PREDICTIONS
In the USTFCCCA preseason poll, the BGSU women were ranked No. 15 in the Great Lakes Region. This is the team's first regional ranking of the four-year Lou Snelling era.
STRONG ACADEMICALLY
The women's team tied a program record with three Academic All-MAC members in 2013 and the men's cross country team added two more as announced by the MAC last season. Three more women and three more men earned honorable mention status on the teams.
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