Next Up: XC to Stampede at McNeese State
Sep 30, 2011 | Cross Country
Sept. 30, 2011
10/1/2011
Tulane Green Wave at McNeese Cowboy Stampede
Start Times: 8:45 a.m. (Women), 9:15 a.m. (Men)
Location: Lake Charles, La. (Enos Derbonne Sports Complex)
NEW ORLEANS - After taking last weekend off from competition, the Tulane cross country program will turn from training to competition mode at the McNeese Cowboy Stampede. The women's squad will take part in the five-kilometer race to kick off the festivities and the men's team will run their second non-traditional distance, covering four miles in their race.
After watching the upperclassmen lead the way last season, the women's program has a youthful shot in the arm pacing their team this season in Paige Callahan. The Annapolis, Md. native finished atop the team's charts the first two weekends of the season, running the 5K in 19:01.31 at the season opening Georgia Invitational. Callahan will take to the 5K course again this weekend, but will have junior Emmi Aguillard and senior Johanna Gretschel right behind her.
Aguillard finished second for the Green Wave at the Georgia Invitational, logging a time of 19:13.09, and Gretschel was third in the pecking order in 19:16.65. No other rookies will compete this weekend, but sophomores Tavie Abell and Callie Turlington, junior Katherine Crabtree and seniors Cassie Campbell and Jessica Dallager join the fold this weekend in Lake Charles, La.
The men's squad will also send eight members to the Asics McNeese Stampede and will look for the steady improvement to continue. This will be the third different distance that the squad has competed at this season, with the Georgia Invitational presenting an 8K challenge and the Rice Invitational featuring a 5.5K course.
Brian Lozes and Max Miller have each led one race to this point in 2011, with Miller taking the team's top finish in Georgia and Lozes pacing the group at Rice. The freshman duo of Cody Gibbons and GeoffrEy Zelek look to build off their impressive starts for the Green Wave. Zelek finished second and third in the two meets this season and Gibbons has been among the scoring runners for the Olive and Blue twice this season.
The women's race will kick off things at 8:45 a.m. on the course at the Enos Derbonne Sports Complex and the men will follow at 9:15 a.m. After this weekend, the two teams will again have a two-week break before competing at the Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Saturday, Oct. 15.
---www.TulaneGreenWave.com--Players Mentioned
