William & Mary women's cross country continues the championship season when it travels to Milliken Research Park in Spartanburg, S.C. for the NCAA Southeast Region Championships on Friday.
The championship begins with the women's 6K at 11 a.m. with the men's 10K to follow at noon. Spectators are asked to enter the Roger Milliken Center from the Highway 9 entrance. Parking is $5 per vehicle, but admission to the event is free.
Following the NCAA Regionals, the top 31 Division I teams will have the chance to compete at the 2023 NCAA Championships on Nov. 18 at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Va.
Scouting the Region
USC Upstate will host the Southeast Region Championship, which includes teams from Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Forty-one 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, James Madison, Kentucky, Liberty, Longwood, Louisville, Morehead State, Murray State, N.C. Central, NC State, Norfolk State, North Carolina, Northern Kentucky, Presbyterian, Radford, Richmond, South Carolina, UNC Asheville, UNC Greensboro, UNCW, USC Upstate, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, VMI, Wake Forest, William & Mary, and Winthrop.
Tribe News and Notes
- Last season, the Tribe finished 14th at the NCAA Southeast Region Championship.
Sofia Istnick led the way for the Tribe, placing 44th, while
Arianna DeBoer gave W&M two top-70 runners coming in 67th.
- Junior
Arianna DeBoer and sophomores
Sofia Istnick and
Catherine Garrison earned All-CAA honors, placing in the top-11 at the CAA Championships. Istnik and DeBoer earned all-league honors for the second time and it marked the first since 2019 that W&M had three runners earn All-CAA honors.
- The Tribe placed fourth at the CAA Championships behind Elon, Stony Brook, and Northeastern.
- The Tribe has been ranked in the USTFCCA Southeast Region during four of the six weeks this season. W&M was ranked as high No. 11 during the opening week of the year.
- W&M finished 10th in the 15-team Orange race at the Virginia XC23 Pre-Nationals. The Green and Gold defeated a trio of regionally ranked teams – Charlotte (11th, Southeast Region), UMass Lowell (15th, Northeast Region) and Elon (7th, Southeast Region). DeBoer led the Tribe with an eighth-place finish followed by Garrison in 23rd.
- At the Paul Short Run, the Tribe outdistanced 11 regionally-ranked foes in placing 13th in the 44-team field. Istnick (33rd), Garrison (40th), and DeBoer (43rd) paced the Tribe by finishing among the top 50 in the 339-runner field.
- In its opening two events of the 2023 season, W&M earned runner-up finishes. The Tribe edged No. 11 Georgetown for second at the season-opening Spider Alumni Open behind only No. 11 Virginia. Recently, W&M was second in CAA rival Elon at the Adidas XC Challenge on Sept. 15 in Cary, N.C.
- Istnick was named the CAA Runner of the Week on Sept. 5 after leading the Tribe at the Spider Alumni Open. She placed fourth in the 180-runner field, covering the 4K course in 13:43.2.
