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Roy Griak Invitational
Date: Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007
Time: Men’s 8K-12:10 p.m.; Women’s 6K-12:55 p.m.
Site: University of Minnesota Les Bolstad Golf Course (2275 W. Larpenteur Ave.)
Last Year: Men-26th; Women-8th
Internet: Check Huskers.com for results and a full recap. For immediate results, visit
www.gophersports.com.
Next Meet: Chile Pepper Festival (Oct. 13 in Fayetteville, Ark.)
NCAA Pre-Nationals (Oct. 13 in Terre Haute, Ind.)
The Huskers will compete at one of the premier cross country meets in the nation this Saturday when they take the course at the Roy Griak Invitational in St. Paul, Minn. Located on the University of Minnesota campus at Les Bolstad Golf Course, the Roy Griak Invite is in its 22nd year of existence. This year’s meet will consist of 27 Division I teams. Of the competing schools, five men’s and four women’s teams are ranked in the latest USTFCCCA Top 30, including the sixth-ranked ArizonaState women. The meet also hosts Division I and Division II races in the morning and high school races in the afternoon. Nebraska’s men will run at 12:10 p.m., while the Husker women will take the course at 12:55 p.m.
Half of the Big 12 Conference will be represented in Minnesota as Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and Oklahoma are also set to compete.
At the 2006 Roy Griak Invite, the Husker women had a strong top-10 finish to place eighth, while the men were 26th. Both teams are coming off impressive performances at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational Sept. 15, when the Huskers won the men’s and women’s University Division team titles.
The Huskers will take their third week off after this Saturday’s meet, before splitting up to the Chile Pepper Festival (Fayetteville, Ark.) and NCAA Pre-Nationals (Terre Haute, Ind.) on Saturday, Oct. 13.
Nebraska’s Tenative Entry List (Roy Griak Invitational)
Women
Jennifer Pancoast
Natalja Zarcenko
Men
Participating Teams:
Men: Arizona State, Belmont, Bradley, Eastern Washington, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Lamar, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Navy, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northern Arizona, Oklahoma, San Diego, South Dakota State, Utah Valley State, Virginia, Washington State, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Xaiver
Women: Arizona State, Belmont, Bradley, Eastern Washington, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Lamar, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northern Arizona, Northern Illinois, Oklahoma, San Diego, San Francisco, South Dakota State, UC Santa Barbara, Utah Valley State, Virginia, Washington State, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Xaiver
Italics indicates teams ranked in the USTFCCCA Top 30
Last Year: NU Women Take 8th at Roy Griak
The Nebraska women had a very impressive showing at the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 23, 2006 as it placed eighth out of 30 teams. The Husker men improved on its 2005 placing by finishing 26th despite lacking a finish from top runner Peter van der Westhuizen.
For the second consecutive week, Channing Anseth and Ari Goldstein finished as the women’s top runners with Anseth in 34th (22:10.95) and Goldstein in 35th (22:14.10) against a field that included six teams that were nationally-ranked in the preseason polls. Of those, the Huskers defeated Marquette, who was ranked 18th nationally and finished 10th in the meet.
The men suffered from the loss of van der Westhuizen, who was unable to finish after he lost his shoe which contained his finishing chip, but still saw vast improvements from last year’s meet as Brian Parr was the top finisher in 68th with a 8K time of 26:02.00. With van der Westhuizen injured at the 2005 Griak, the highest Husker to finish was 162nd.
The women had three runners place in the top 60 as Betsy Miller was 58th in 22:41.20 and Natalja Zarcenko was four seconds back (22:45.45) in 64th. At the 2005 Griak, Miller was 143rd and Zarcenko was 100th. Joslyn Dalton (86th, 23:03.95), Kim Pancoast (87th, 23:04.85) and Jen Pancoast (88th, 23:07.15) rounded out the scoring Huskers.
Behind Parr, Kyle Custer finished 167th in 26:48.60. Alec Maduza was 184th in 26:59.30 to help the Husker men finish ahead of Big 12 competitor KansasState, which was 30th in the team standings.
Husker Women Remain Fourth in USTFCCCA Midwest Region Poll
The Nebraska women remained fourth in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Midwest Region Poll, released Monday, Sept. 24.
The fourth-place ranking is the same spot the Huskers held in the last poll that was released Sept. 10. Nebraska is one of six Big 12 teams in the top 15, including OklahomaState (5th), Missouri (8th), Oklahoma (10th), KansasState (11th), Kansas (14th) and IowaState (15th). Ahead of Nebraska is Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa.
The Nebraska men held its spot in the poll, staying at No. 12.
Review: Husker Men, Women Repeat at Woody Greeno
Pioneer’s Park - Behind six top-10 finishes from the Nebraska women and a fourth-place finish from senior Peter van der Westhuizen in the men’s race, the Husker cross country teams repeated as the University Division champions at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational Sept. 15 at Pioneer’s Park.
More than 600 runners participated in the 18th annual event, which is the largest cross country meet in the state of Nebraska. The competition saw freshman Lara Crofford and junior captain Ari Goldstein finish second (21:29.30) and third (21:30.10) in the women’s 6K, while van der Westhuizen’s fourth-place finish (25:05.20) in the men’s 8K matched his placing from the 2006 Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational.
Behind Crofford and Goldstein were four more Husker runners to finish in the top 10, including seniors Joslyn Dalton (6th, 21:49.90) and Channing Anseth (22:01.05) and juniors Rachel Carrizales (9th, 22:20.65) and Jen Pancoast (10th, 22:26.40).
On the men’s side, junior Kyle Custer improved his finish and time at the Woody Greeno for the second straight year as he placed 10th in 25:32. Freshman Todd Gulizia, the runner-up at the Creighton/UNO Classic on Sept. 1, finished 14th (25:45.25). The Husker men defeated Creighton and KansasState in the University Division for its eighth title in meet history, while the Colorado School of Mines was crowned the overall champion. The women’s University Division title was their third in a row and 13th in history.