Weekly Release #5
10/2/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Upcoming Schedule
Friday, Oct. 5 -- at Notre Dame Invitational (South Bend, Ind.), 4:15 p.m. EST/CDT
Sunday, Oct. 14 -- host Wolverine Interregional (U-M Golf Course), 10:30 a.m
This Week
The University of Michigan women's cross country team will compete at the Notre Dame Invitational on Friday (Oct. 5), at 4:15 p.m. in South Bend, Ind. This will mark the second consecutive year the Wolverines have competed in the meet that covers 5,000 meters of the Burke Memorial Golf Course.
Wolverines at Notre Dame Invititational
Last year the Wolverines finished second place as a team with 143 points, second only to Stanford, which won the meet by totaling 35 points. Leading the way for U-M was Katie Jazwinski (1997-2000) with a fifth-place finish (17:24) while sophomore Lindsey Gallo (Freehold, N.J./Howell HS) earned a 37th-place finish with her time of 18:07.
Last Week
The Wolverines placed seventh at the Iona Meet of Champions in the Bronx, N.Y., (Sept. 29) as sophomore Lindsey Gallo and redshirt freshman Andrea Parker (Livonia, Mich./Stevenson HS) both covered the 6,000 meters of Van Cortland Park in under 22 minutes. Gallo, who was the Wolverines' top finisher at 24th, ran the meet in 21:37.0 and Parker finished shortly after in 45th with a time of 21:45.1. Senior Katie Ryan (Rochester Hills, Mich./Adams HS) and junior Jeanne Spink (Chelsea, Mich./Chelsea HS) rounded out the group of U-M runners that placed in the top fifty as Ryan (22:07.9) was 45th and Spink (22:10.8) was 48th.
Reflections
Michigan's top three finishers at the Iona Meet of Champions mirrored the results from the Wolverines first scored meet of the year at the Miami Invitational (Sept. 8). In both meets, Lindsey Gallo, Andrea Parker and Katie Ryan were the Wolverines top finishers. Overall, the only runner to make her first appearance of the year in New York was junior Jane Martineau (Mt. Pleasant, Mich./Mt. Pleasant HS), who placed 57th with a time of 22:24.6.
National Ranking
After ranking 24th in the preseason poll, Michigan has not been listed in the first two polls of the regular season, including the most recent ranking (Oct. 1). Two teams from the Big Ten Conference remain ranked: No. 13 Michigan State and No. 14 Wisconsin.
FinishLynx NCAA Division I Poll (10/1/01)
Rank, School Points Prev 1. Colorado (11) 324 1 2. Stanford (1) 311 2 3. North Carolina State 293 3 4. Brigham Young 270 4 Arizona State 270 11 6. Boston College 268 12 7. Providence 241 9 8. North Carolina 234 7 9. Arizona 220 8 10. Arkansas 200 13 11. Georgetown 198 10 12. Colorado State 192 14 13. Michigan State 177 24 14. Wisconsin 154 5 15. Virginia 142 NR 16. Washington 122 17 17. Boston University 107 23 18. UCLA 96 NR 19. Marquette 79 16 20. Cornell 72 NR 21. James Madison 51 6 Yale 51 NR 23. Northern Arizona 35 NR 24. Baylor 34 NR 25. Villanova 22 20
Contact: David Crabtree (734) 763-4423
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