Cross Country Competes In Two Away Meets This Weekend

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Bowling Green, Ohio. – The Bowling Green State University men's and women's cross country programs will be on the road this weekend, as they compete at the All-Ohio Championships Oct. 3 and the Louisville Cross Country Classic Oct. 4.

WHAT THE COACHES ARE SAYING
Eric Thatcher on the men racing at All-Ohio Championships: "Our men have consistently worked hard through this pivotal early season training block within our cross country training cycle. With over 30 teams competing, we are excited for the opportunity that the All-Ohio Championship provides to compete within a large field. This will only be the second or third 8K racing opportunity for over 75% of our guys, so we will look to find each other early in the race in an attempt to gain confidence by working together. I fully expect our young guys to challenge the fitness we have developed in training as we continue to collectively strive for our long term goals."
Lou Snelling on the women racing at Louisville: "We are looking forward to our first major meet of the season. Louisville will be a great test and opportunity against nationally ranked competition.Part of that test will be experiencing a large field with over 30 teams on a smaller course. This will prepare us well for later in the season."

DETAILS ON ALL-OHIO CHAMPIONSHIPS
The annual All-Ohio meet is hosted by Cedarville University. Lindsay Kaatz will run in the 6,000-meter women's championship race and Cassandra Boyle competes in the 6K open race beginning at 2:00 p.m. For the men's team, the 8K championship and open races start at 2:45 p.m.

DETAILS ON LOUISVILLE CROSS COUNTRY CLASSIC
The rest of the women's team will be competing in the 5,000-meter Championship Gold Race Oct. 4. The team will race against 33 other teams at 10:15 a.m. as a part of one of the largest collegiate cross country meets this season. The women's field will showcase three nationally ranked teams, as well as last year's top finisher, Ann Eason. The Falcons will be one of two MAC teams competing in the Gold race. There will be no men racing at this meet from BGSU.

LAST TIME OUT
The men's and women's teams last competed at the annual Mel Brodt Invitational Sept. 12. The men's squad finished second out of three, and the women placed second out of four teams competing. Becca Rae was the women's team's top finisher for the second meet in a row. The spread between the first and eighth runner was only 35 seconds. Racing in their first 8,000-meter race of the season, the men's team was led by senior Greg Black who finished fifth overall.

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. This season, she placed 14th overall at the Mel Brodt Invitational.

BLACK PROVIDES SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Redshirt senior Greg Black competed in six of the team's seven meets last season and provides experience and senior leadership on and off the course to a young men's squad. In his first race this season at the Mel Brodt Invitational, Black placed fifth overall with an 8,000-meter time of 26:40.71.

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 are 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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