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Terre Haute, Ind. ? The Nebraska women’s cross country team made a strong statement on Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind., as the Huskers finished ninth overall at the Indiana State Pre-Nationals. The Huskers competed in a 42-team field that included 14 top-40 ranked teams including top-five teams Florida State (No. 3) and Princeton (No. 5).
The Huskers, who entered the meet unranked, received a strong outing from sophomore Lara Crofford who finished 10th overall with a time of 20:39 in the white race. Crofford’s finish propelled the women’s team to a ninth-place finish, downing six top-40 teams.
Crofford has now finished in the top-10 at every meet this year, including two meet victories at the BYU Autumn Classic and most recently at the South Dakota State Classic. Out of the 281 runners, Crofford was joined in the top 100 by teammates Rachel Carrizales (50th ? 21:21.2), Jen Pancoast (68th ? 21:33.9) and Natalja Zarcenko (93rd ? 21:49.3).
On the men’s side, redshirt freshman David Adams finished 88th overall with a time of 24:49.3, pacing the men’s team to a 33rd-place finish out of 41 teams in the blue race. Adams has now led the men’s squad at every meet this season. The Huskers were pitted against unranked Big 12 schools Kansas and Kansas State as well as nationally ranked Colorado (No. 3) and Texas (No. 21).
With over 80 teams competing in Terre Haute, the men’s and women’s fields were each split into two evenly matched races, with the first race called the blue race and the second called the white race.
In other cross country action, the rest of the Huskers ran at the Chile Pepper Festival in Fayetteville, Ark. The women’s team finished 24th out of 39 teams while the men finished 17th out of 30 teams.
The women’s squad was led by freshmen Katie White who finished 81st (22:37.00) and Jessica Furlan who finished 96th (22:45.31) out of 306 runners. The men were carried by sophomores Bryce Somer who came in 85th (31:57.85) and Matt Conahan who finished 111th (32:35.66) out of 257 competitors.
The Huskers will now get ready for the Big 12 Championship meet, which will be held in Ames, Iowa, on the campus of Iowa State on Sat. Nov. 1, at 10 a.m. Last season the Husker women finished third and the men finished 10th at the conference meet.