Weekly Release #4
9/25/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Upcoming Schedule
Saturday, Sept. 29 -- at Iona Meet of Champions (Bronx, N.Y.), 9:45 a.m.
Friday, Oct. 5 -- at Notre Dame Invitational (South Bend, Ind.), 4:15 p.m. EST/CDT
This Week
The University of Michigan women's cross country team will compete in its first meet since Sept. 8 when it travels to Bronx, N.Y., to compete in the Iona Meet of Champions on Saturday (Sept. 28). The meet will cover 6,000 meters at Van Cortland Park and is scheduled to begin at 9:45 a.m.
Last Week
The Wolverines did not compete last week due to an open weekend on their schedule. Michigan has not competed in over two weeks as the Spiked Shoe Invitational that was slated for Sept. 15 was cancelled due to the tragic events in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.
Young Guns
Of the 11 runners the Wolverines sent to compete at the Miami Invitational (Sept. 8), six were running in their first scored meet on the collegiate level. All six finished in the top 50, including redshirt freshman Andrea Parker (Livonia, Mich./Stevenson HS), who had the best showing out of the young group by finishing in eighth place with a time of 18:48. Amy Hatfield (Saline, Mich./Saline HS), who placed 27th (19:52), was the only other redshirt freshman out of the six as Chelsea Homan (Cincinnati, Ohio/Anderson HS), Chelsea Loomis (Traverse City, Mich./West HS), Sarah Pizzo (Golden, Colo./Mullen HS) and Edna Kollartis (Whitehouse, Ohio/Maumee Valley C.D.S.) competed as true freshmen.
National Ranking
After ranking 24th in the preseason poll, Michigan dropped out of the FinishLynx women's cross country poll which was released on Tuesday (Sept. 25). Three teams from the Big Ten Conference remain ranked: No. 5 Wisconsin, No. 19 Minnesota and No. 24 Michigan State.
FinishLynx NCAA Division I Poll (9/24/01)
Rank, School Points Prev 1. Colorado (13) 325 1 2. Stanford 306 3 3. North Carolina State 293 9 4. Brigham Young 275 4 5. Wisconsin 274 5 6. Yale 258 7 7. North Carolina 230 6 8. Arizona 227 8 9. Providence 223 13 10. Georgetown 207 11 11. Arizona State 199 10 12. Boston College 197 2 13. Arkansas 184 12 14. Colorado State 129 16 15. Missouri 126 14 16. Marquette 125 15 17. Washington 113 19 18. Texas A&M 90 17 19. Minnesota 77 18 20. Villanova 74 22 21. Weber State 64 20 22. Duke 53 25 23. Boston University 47 NR 24. Michigan State 31 NR 25. Columbia 27 23
Head Coach Mike McGuire
Mike McGuire is in his 10th season as a head coach for the University of Michigan women's cross country team. In his first four seasons, McGuire won three consecutive Big Ten Conference and NCAA District IV championships, and finished as high as second at the 1994 NCAA National Championship. All told, McGuire's Michigan teams have nine top two finishes at the Big Ten championship and eight top two finishes at the regional championships, winning the regional meet in 1993, '94, and '95. His teams have finished among the nation's top 10 five times at the NCAA Championships.
Contact: David Crabtree (734) 763-4423
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