{"id":428,"date":"2014-12-06T01:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=428"},"modified":"2015-01-06T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:49:52","slug":"mens-and-womens-cross-country-finish-west-region-championships-in-billings-mont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/mens-and-womens-cross-country-finish-west-region-championships-in-billings-mont\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country finish West Region Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jacob Hansen\r\n Staff Writer<\/pre>\n
The men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country teams traveled to Billings, Mont. Saturday, Nov. 29, to close out their season. It was the NCAA West Regional\u2019s held at Amend Park, where the Wolves women\u2019s team finished 16th overall and the men\u2019s 19th.<\/p>\n
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The men\u2019s team had two finishers in the top 100: David Ribich and Zach Holloway. Ribich clocked in with a time of 32:34:34, coming in 52nd place, and Holloway at 58th with a time of 32:43:94 in the 10k. The next trio of runners was Sam Naffziger, Riley Anheluk and David McLeod. Their respective times were 22:48:79 at 101st, 34:41:12 at 120th and 34:57:35 at 126th. Joe Soik finished right behind McLeod at 34:58:16 in 127th place.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team as a majority was pretty disappointed with how the season ended at regionals,\u201d Holloway said. \u201cI feel that I as an individual underachieved at the regional meet and that our team had more potential this season to have been more competitive. Our team has still made great progress with our fitness and all the work we put in the fall will carry over to indoor and outdoor this year. I think the disappointment will motivate the entire team to be more focused and train harder than ever this winter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chico State won the title with 30 points, qualifying for the NCAA Championships in Louisville, Ky. Saturday, Dec. 6. Alaska Anchorage, who finished with 53 points, didn\u2019t go down without a fight as they took the top two spots in the race.<\/p>\n
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\nFor the women\u2019s side, Stephanie Stuckey finished 58th overall in the 6k with a time of 23:08:05. Close behind her was Rachel Crawford with a time of 23:25:29, finishing in 73rd place. Rounding it out for the Wolves women\u2019s team was Annie Wade, Debora De Leon, Bailey Beeson, Nicole Anderson and Kolby Childers. The quintet came in 96th, 101th, 126th, and 135th overall to represent the Wolves. Their times were, 23:49:93, 23:55:27, 24:09:92, 24:41:96 and 25:08:36 respectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team didn\u2019t finish where we could have,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cWe are focused on what we can do next in indoor season. Regionals was tough because our bodies weren\u2019t used to the climate or elevation. The competition was even stronger than in past years, but every race makes us stronger and helps us prepare for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simon Fraser took home the team title for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) with a score of 103 points. Chico State came in a close second with 112 points and Alaska Anchorage took the third step on the podium with 144 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jacob Hansen Staff Writer The men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country teams traveled to Billings, Mont. Saturday, Nov. 29, to close out their season. It was the NCAA West Regional\u2019s held at Amend Park, where the Wolves women\u2019s team finished 16th overall and the men\u2019s 19th.   The men\u2019s team had two finishers in the top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}