Scouting the Region
USC Upstate will host the Southeast Region Championship, which includes teams from Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Forty teams are set to compete in the meet:
Appalachian State, Charleston Southern, Charlotte, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, Charleston, Davidson, Duke, East Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, Elon, Furman, George Mason, High Point, Kentucky, Liberty, Longwood, Louisville, Morehead State, Murray State, N.C. Central, NC State, Norfolk State, North Carolina, Northern Kentucky, Presbyterian, Radford, Richmond, UNC Asheville, UNC Greensboro, UNCW, USC Upstate, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, VMI, Wake Forest, William & Mary, Winthrop, and Wofford.
Tribe News and Notes
- W&M came in at No. 15 for the second-straight week in the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Rankings. The Tribe has been ranked each of the last five weeks, coming in at No. 14 the three weeks prior.
- Last season, the Tribe finished 17th at the NCAA Southeast Region Championship.
Jacob Jones and
Nate Jennings led the team, placing 77th and 78th.
- W&M continued its streak of placing in the top three of every CAA Cross Country Championship since 1988 with a third-place finish on Oct. 27.
- Four Tribe harriers earned All-CAA honors. Graduate student
Patrick North led the way, earning All-CAA honors for the second time in his career with a 10th-place showing. Freshman
Hayes Trapp (13th), Jennings (14th), and sophomore
Peyton Golden (15th) all earned All-CAA honors for the first time in their careers with top-15 efforts.
- The Tribe placed fourth in the Orange Race of the Virginia XC23 Pre-Nationals on Oct. 14. W&M finished just three points out of third place and defeated a pair of regionally ranked teams – Kansas State (No. 14 Midwest) and Kent State (No. 14 Great Lakes Region). North (24:45.7) and Jennings (24:47.7) led the Tribe with top-20 finishes and placed 17th and 18th, respectively.
- At the Paul Short Run on Sept. 30, the Tribe placed its first five among the top 100 and out-raced 11 regionally-ranked teams in finishing 14th in the 43-team field. W&M's top five runners had a spread of just 9.2 seconds. Trapp led the way in his first action for the Tribe, placing 72nd in the 392-runner field. Juniors
Zack Ericksen and Jennings finished just four tenths apart in 77th and 78th place, respectively.
- At the Adidas XC Challenge, the Tribe finished as the runner-up in a 17-team field, a spot in front of Southeast Region No. 5 Duke. The Tribe placed nine runner among the top 35 in a 153-runner field
- Senior
Sam Pritchard was named the CAA Runner of the Week on Sept. 19. He led the Tribe, finishing eighth in a time of 18:20.1 at the Adidas XC Challenge.
