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NCAA Cross Country Championships
Cross Country preview: NCAA Championships
11.21.2013 | Track & Field / Cross Country
The Texas men’s cross country team and senior Marielle Hall will contend at the annual national meet on Saturday, Nov. 23, in Terre Haute, Ind.
Meet Info
What: NCAA Cross Country Championships
When: Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013
Race Time: Men's 10K – 11 a.m. Central; Women's 6K to follow
Venue: LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center
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The Texas men's cross country team and senior Marielle Hall are set to contend at this weekend's NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Nov. 23, in Terre Haute, Ind. The men's 10,000-meter race will kick off the day at 11 a.m. Central with the women's 6,000m to follow.
The national meet will be held for the 10th time in Terre Haute with the nation's 31 top teams and 38 individual qualifiers on both the men's and women's sides racing on the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center.
Who's Running …
The No. 23 Texas men earned an automatic team qualification with their second-place finish at the NCAA South Central Regional, just three points behind first-place, ninth-ranked Arkansas. Slated to race on Saturday are Ryan Dohner, Chris Galvin, Craig Lutz, Mark Pinales, Eduardo Rodriguez, Austin Roth and Collin Smith.
Hall, a 2012 cross country All-American, earned an individual selection to the national meet after taking home her second straight South Central Region title last week in Waco.
Longhorns at the NCAA Championships …
Hall's 23rd-place result at last year's NCAA meet ranked ninth in all-time individual finishes for Texas women and was the highest since 1989. No Longhorn woman has ever placed higher than fifth.
Last year's Texas men's squad turned in a ninth-place team finish, tied for the sixth-highest result in program history. That followed an 11th-place performance in 2011.
Last Time Out …
Hall repeated as regional champion and the Longhorn men placed second as a team to punch their tickets to Terre Haute. After taking home the Big 12 crown two weeks prior on the same course, Hall cruised to a comfortable lead from the gun and crossed in 19:40.7, 24 seconds ahead of her nearest competitor. The Longhorn men placed four in the top 10 and all seven competitors in the top 25 to earn all-region honors as well as their sixth consecutive berth to the national meet. Dohner and Lutz finished back-to-back in third and fourth with identical times of 29:52.7.
Season In Review …
UT opened the season at the Baylor Bear Invitational in Waco on Aug. 30, where the men placed second and the women third. Both the men and women went on to sweep the Ricardo Romo Invitational in San Antonio on Sept. 20 before taking home titles at the Texas Invitational in Round Rock on Sept. 27.
At the fifth-annual Wisconsin adidas Invitation on Oct. 19 in Madison, Hall, a 2012 All-American, tallied the Longhorns' top performance of the day with a third-place finish out of 288 runners. She posted a then personal-best time of 19:46 in the women's 6,000m race. Fellow All-American Lutz led the way for the Longhorns on the men's side, crossing the 8,000m finish line 14th overall in a field of 287 with a time of 23:36.
Hall went on to capture UT's first Big 12 Cross Country title in program history in a 6K personal-best 19:38.3, more than 10 seconds ahead of all other competitors, at the 2013 conference meet in Waco on Nov. 2 The Longhorn women placed fourth as a team while Megan Siebert also picked up all-region honors. The Texas men came in third in the team standings led by All-Big 12 honorees Dohner (fourth place) and Lutz (sixth place).
