While we are waiting for the football coaches to get out of the ODU elevator, I wanted to shout out the ladies cross country team who had a perfect score today in their opener today by taking the top 7 spots.
Virginia Tech wins Season Opener with Perfect Score! #Hokies— Virginia Tech Track & Field (@HokiesTFXC) September 3, 2022
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so we're a cross country school now? sounds good to me right about now
"My sport is your sport's punishment!!"
Embarrassed to say our team had those shirts in high school
Why, its true?
My football son often said those words to my cross country son.
"Why would you do that? Its what we have to do if we're in trouble and we don't even go near as far as you do?'
Ditto. I still have mine 20 years later for yard work.
Thanks for posting. Thats an impressive feat.
Go Hokies!
ACC Championships are underway in Charlottesville. The men's 8k race just finished with the women set to run their 6k race at 1130.
The men finished 8th which was an expected finish. The only Hokie runner I would consider to be a true long distance runner is Antonio Lopez Segura who finished 11th. The rest of the Hokies I would consider to be middle distance runners based on their track events last spring. I believe it is a VT middle distance policy that the middle distance runners participate in cross country.
Final score was 251 points with the following breakdown (note only the top 7 finishers per team count towards the team score):
R1 - Antonio Lopez Segura - 11th place and 11 pts to the team score
R2- Viktor Idhammar - 63rd place and 57 pts
R3 - Declan Rymer - 64th place and 58 pts
R4 - David Whitfield - 66th place and 59 pts
R5 - Alec Fleming - 74th place and 66 pts
R6 - Michael Zedan - 82nd place and 70 pts
R7 - Ethan Mills - 86th place and 72 pts
Azaan Dawson - 104th place
Arnav Tikhe - 112th place
Blake Fairbanks - 118th place
Final Overall Team Scores
1. Wake Forest - 44
2. Syracuse - 86
3. UNC - 87
4. Notre Dame - 92
5. NC State - 118
6. UVA - 125
7. Duke - 181
8. VT - 251
9. FSU - 255
10. Pitt - 292
11. GT - 319
12. Louisville - 324
13. Clemson - 359
14. BC - 451
15. Miami - 455
The ladies also finished 8th.
R1 - Lindsey Butler - 26th place and 26 points
R2 - Cheyenne Leatham - 37th place and 36 points
R3 - Ava Hassebrock - 40th place and 39 points
R4 - Grace Boone - 52nd place and 50 points
R5 - Hannah Ballowe - 74th place and 68 points
R6 - Chase Kappeler - 88th place and 78 points
R7 - Nicole Re - 126th place and 102 points
Team Scores
1. NC State - 34
2. Notre Dame - 38
3. UVA - 98
4. UNC - 109
5. FSU - 148
6. Syracuse - 191
7. Duke - 195
8. VT - 219
9. WF - 226
10. GT - 240
11. BC - 339
12. Miami - 340
13. Pitt - 368
14. Clemson - 424
15. Louisville - 434
Oof, that's two clash points to the hoos. Gross
Yeah it hasn't been a great fall in clash points for the good guys thus far.
Do you happen to have the times for the men's meet?
Times can be found HERE
I ran CC in HS. After my senior year I promised myself that I would never run again unless the cops were involved!
Hahaha this conjured an image in my brain of a skinny kid loping away from the cops at 5:30 mile pace only to get tackled by a sprinting officer...
I went to 1 cross country practice in HS.
kind of the same thing
Southeast Regionals are Friday at E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville. The women's 6k will begin at 11 AM and the men's 10k will begin at noon. The top two teams and first four finishers in the race not associated with the top two teams will move on to the NCAA Championships to be held on November 19 in Stillwater, OK.
If I am honest, I'm not expecting any Hokies to move on to NCAAs and a mid-pack finish is probably a ceiling. Both the men and the women are generally made up of middle distance runners who use XC to prepare for the Indoor and Outdoor seasons, with the exception of Lopez Segura who is a true distance runner.
The southeast region is made up of App State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Charlotte, Citadel, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Duke, East Carolina, EKU, Elon, Furman, George Mason, High Point, JMU, Kentucky, Liberty, Longwood, Louisville, Morehead St, Murray St, NC A&T (men only), NC State, Norfolk St, UNC, Northern Kentucky, Radford, Richmond, South Carolina (women only), UNC-Asheville, UNC-Greensboro, UNCW (women only), USC Upstate, UVA, VT, Wake Forest, Western Carolina (women only), Western Kentucky, William & Mary, and Winthrop.
The Hokies are taking twelve women and eleven men.
Admittedly, I don't follow XC on a national level at all and am not familiar with most of the teams, but am going to put the safe money on the NC State women to win the event. Unfortunately, UVA has a pretty good chance at taking 2nd though UNC might edge them out. For the men, Wake Forest will try to build on their ACC team title and take the regional. UNC will likely be right there with them.
Live timing and results will be found HERE
Have a day Antonio Lopez Segura who finished 5th and stamped an individual ticket to the NCAAs! As a team, the men finished 12th. UNC took the win and UVA edged out Wake Forest for the 2nd automatic qualifying spot.
The ladies finished 10th which was not unexpected. NC St takes the win with the top 3 finishers and UNC takes second to get the two automatic qualifying spots to nationals. Hoos finished third as a team but did not have anyone finish high enough to qualify on an individual basis. Lindsey Butler had a DNF so hopefully she doesn't have an injury that will impact her indoor track season.