BGSU Heads To NCAA Regionals

Friday, November 13

Madison, Wis.

12 PM

Bowling Green State University

NCAA Great Lakes Regional

November 11, 2015 | Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country

By: Amanda Cutcher, BGSU Athletic Communications

Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University men's and women's cross country teams will be competing at the NCAA Great Lakes Regionals Friday, hosted by the University of Wisconsin.

ABOUT NCAA GREAT LAKES REGIONALS
The NCAA Great Lakes Regionals will be held at Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course in Madison, Wisc. The women's 6,000-meter race will begin at 12 pm and the men's 10,000-meter heat will follow at 1 pm. For more information CLICK HERE.

The top two teams at the NCAA Great Lakes Regionals will automatically advance to the NCAA Division I National Championships and 13 at-large bids nation-wide will be handed out following the conclusion of the regional meets. As well, the top four individual finishers who do not compete on teams advancing to the National Championships will earn automatic bids.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
The BGSU cross country teams can be followed a number of ways. Social media links are listed below and live results and live video (as available) can be found on BGSUFalcons.com as meets provide those opportunities.

Twitter - @BGAthletics and @BGXCTrack
Instagram – BGFalcons and bg_xctrackandfield
Facebook – BGSU Athletics
YouTube – FalconAthletics

WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?
"We have the opportunity to have our best team and individual performances at this meet since the late 90's. The team has done a good job of refocusing after the MAC championships. This group has a lot experience at this meet as well and we have a lot of positives going for us. Now, it's about getting after it for around 20 minutes Friday."
– Head Coach Lou Snelling

"The Great Lakes Regional is a very competitive regional. For many of our men this will be their first 10k race ever, so it will be a learning experience! However, they have been training for 10k distance all season and I expect them to rise to the challenge just as they have all season."
– Coach Chuck Wentz

LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons last traveled to Canton, Ohio for the Mid-American Conference Championships hosted by the University of Akron.

The women's team placed second overall out of 12 schools. The women last had a second place finish in 2006, making this the best finish in head coach Lou Snelling's era. The top five runners for the women were redshirt freshman Rachel Walny, redshirt junior Mackenzie McMillin, seniors Jasmine Redman and Andrea Alt, and sophomore Elena Lancioni.

The men had the best team finish since 2000, placing seventh out of nine schools. Bowling Green ended with 189 team points, defeating Kent State and Toledo. The top five runners for the men's team were redshirt sophomore Nathan Kuck, sophomore Kohl Taberner, freshmen Jonathan Wenning Kyle Repetto and Noah Schaub.

WALNY WOWS
Rachel Walny, with the fastest performance for the Falcons at the MAC Championships ever, placed fifth overall with a time of 21:06.90. She was named MAC Freshman of the Year and posted the best place-finish at the MAC Championships for BGSU since 2006.

KUCK KICKING UP DUST
Nathan Kuck, who continues to lead the Falcons, crossed the finish line with a time of 25:23.39 and placed 17^th overall at the MAC Championships.

REGIONAL RANKINGS
In the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) regional rankings, released Monday, the BGSU women's cross country team remained No. 9 in the Great Lakes Region for the third straight week – this is the highest ranking in Lou Snelling's tenure at BGSU.

MAC RANKINGS
In the MAC preseason poll the BGSU women's cross country team was ranked fourth. The Falcons return seven of the team's top eight finishers from last season. The men were selected ninth by the coaches.