Course Records Fall At The 2008 Cross Country Pre-Nationals
Courtesy ISU Athletics
The eyes of cross country enthusiasts around the country were fixed on the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind., on Saturday as the best collegiate men’s and women’s team in the country participated in the annual Pre-Nationals Meet. Two course records were broken in impressive fashion and some of the best teams in the country lived up to their billing on what proved to be on a perfect day for racing.
Women’s 6,000 Meter Blue Race Recap:
The first race of the day was dominated by the No. 1 nationally-ranked Washington Huskies, as the team placed four runners in the top 10 and had all five of their runners score within the top 16 spots in the highly-competitive race to finish with an overall score of 36. No. 13 ranked Villanova raced to a second-place finish with 126 points, followed by Minnesota in third place with 198 points. No. 9 Michigan State finished with 214 total points to place fourth overall No. 15 Florida finished with a score of 233 to round out the top five teams.
North Carolina’s Brianna Felnagle showed why she is one of the best collegiate runners in the country in the, as she finished with a time of 20:02.4 which was 11 seconds faster than Hollie Knight of Auburn in second place with a time of 20:13.4. Three Huskies were the next runners to cross the line, as Kendra Schaaf (20:14.7), Christine Babcock (20:15.2) and Marie Lawrence (20:17.8) finished in third through fifth places, respectively, to round out the impressive field.
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2008 NCAA Pre Nationals XC Meet
We will not post the Women's open race. The only reason that we filmed the open for the men was bc Ok State ran their top guys in the open race. Since Ok State is 2nd in the country and German is one of the top guys in the country we decided to film it. Sorry about that but hopefully you can understand.
Mark