Iowa State Women Take Third at Pre-Nationals

Saturday, October 16

Terre Haute, Ind.

12:00 PM

Iowa State

Pre-Nationals

Iowa State Women Take Third at Pre-Nationals

10.16.2010 | Cross Country

By: cyclones.com

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Sophomore Aliphine Tuliamuk highlighted competition for the Iowa State women's cross country team Saturday at the Pre-Nationals Invitational. The Kenya native led the women's side to a third-place team finish with 175 overall points. Florida State won the women's competition with 115 team points.

“As a group on the women's side, we made improvements from a few weeks ago,” Iowa State head coach Corey Ihmels said. “They did a tremendous job to keep us moving down the right path towards conference in two weeks. I think we're moving forward in a great direction, and we'll be in a good place going into conference.”

Tuliamuk clocked a fifth-place finish in the Women's Blue 6,000-meter race with a time of 20:29. Junior Betsy Saina was the second Cyclone to cross the finish line, clocking a 20:39.70 and scoring 14 points for the women's squad.

The Cyclone men took 13th place with 415 points. Oklahoma won the men's competition with a team total of 106 points. The men's squad was led by seniors Hillary Bor and Clayton Carper, who finished 57th and 58th, respectively.

The Cyclones will compete next at the Big 12 Cross Country Championships on Oct. 30 in Stillwater, Okla.

Team Results

Men (White Race)

1) Oklahoma, 106; 2) BYU, 138; 3) Colorado, 140; 4) Portland, 146; 5) North Carolina State, 177; 6) Georgetown, 211; 7) Notre Dame, 225; 8) Alabama, 314; 9) Columbia, 329; 10) Liberty, 378; 11) Tulsa, 383; 12) Minnesota, 391; 13) IOWA STATE, 415; 14) Eastern Kentucky, 419; 15) Providence, 430; 16) Cal Poly, 431; 17) Harvard, 468; 18) Air Force, 470; 19) Arizona State, 472; 20) Butler, 481; 21) Indiana State, 485; 22)Washington State, 554; 23) Kansas, 605, 24) Cincinnati, 621; 25) Tennessee, 638; 26) New Mexico State, 691; 27) La Salle, 718; 28) Western Kentucky, 737; 29) Ohio, 768; 30) Toledo, 779; 31) Loyola Marymount, 872; 32) Kansas State, 875; 33) Central Michigan, 886; 34) Southern Utah, 992; 35)Morehead State, 1084.

Women (Blue Race)

1) Florida State, 115; 2) Arizona, 128; 3) IOWA STATE, 175; 4) Providence, 231; 5) Texas, 233; 6) Michigan State, 279; 7) Princeton, 291; 8) California, 345; 9) Washington, 352; 10) Iowa, 353; 11) BYU, 379; 12) Richmond, 401; 13) Vanderbilt, 415; 14) Ohio State, 434, 15) Central Michigan, 476; 16) Columbia, 483; 17) Arkansas, 493; 18)Colorado State, 512, 19)UCLA, 520; 20)Portland, 526; 21) Weber State, 531; 22) Clemson, 543; 23) Notre Dame, 547; 24) Nebraska, 560; 25)Loyola Marymount, 611; 26) Texas- El Paso, 613; 27) Wichita State, 639; 28) Liberty, 657; 29) William and Mary, 692; 30) Dayton, 716; 31) Purdue, 727; 32) Illinois State, 742; 33) Missouri, 745; 34) Dartmouth, 784; 35) Alabama, 823.

Iowa State Results

Men:

1) Samuel Chelanga, Liberty, 23:19.90; 57) Hillary Bor, IOWA STATE, 24:39.00; 58) Clayton Carper, IOWA STATE, 24:39.90; 70) Rico Loy, IOWA STATE, 24:46.50; 107) Martin Coolidge, IOWA STATE, 25:05.90; 123) Ben Murphy-Baum, IOWA STATE, 25:16.80; 149) Charlie Paul, IOWA STATE, 25:34.60; 164) Isaac Chelimo, IOWA STATE, 25:43.90

Women:

1) Risper Kimaiyo, Texas-El Paso, 20:03.40, 5) Aliphine Tuliamuk, IOWA STATE, 20:29.00; 14) Betsy Saina, IOWA STATE, 20:39.70; 30) Lucy Kennedy, IOWA STATE, 20:51.60; 40) Semehar Tesfaye, IOWA STATE, 21:05.10; 86) India Lee, IOWA STATE, 21:34.40; 103) Dani Stack, IOWA STATE, 21:41.00; 143) Beth Olson, IOWA STATE, 22:01.00