No. 23 Iowa State Women Seek Continued Big 12 Success

AMES, Iowa – The No. 23 Iowa State women's cross country is looking to win its sixth Big 12 Championship in seven years on Saturday. The women's Big 12 Championship Race will begin at 10 a.m. CT at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, Texas.

The 2017 team is on the heels of the 2016 team that took home the Big 12 crown. The 2016 team produced four All-Big 12 members. Two of those runners, Anne Frisbie and Bethanie Brown, are members of the 2017 squad.

Along with a handful of Cyclone veterans enters a class of highly touted freshmen. Andrea Grove-McDonough's youngsters have been outstanding this season, with Cailie Logue pacing the bunch. Logue has been the top finisher for the Cardinal and Gold in all three regular season events and was awarded Big 12 Runner of the Week honors after winning the Hawkeye Invitational individually in her collegiate debut.

How to Follow
This year, the Big 12 has partnered with FloSports and FloTrack. A live stream of the championships will be available through them ($). A link to that stream is included above. For live updates from the course and on the team, follow @Cyclonetrackxc on Twitter.

Chalk Talk with Andrea Grove-McDonough
"There's a championship to be won," Grove-McDonough said. "Winning a conference title, that means something. Winning a Big 12 title means something to this school and to this program and to our legacy and history. There's so much more pride there. We're going to do our own thing. At the end of the day, they're chasing us, but we don't take that lightly."

Cyclone Notebook
-The Iowa State cross country teams will head to Lubbock, Texas for the 2017 Big 12 Championship on Saturday, Oct. 28. The men's race will start at 9 a.m. CT, with the women's race at 10 a.m.
-Iowa State is currently one of 12 schools in the country to have its men's (No. 23) and women's (No. 23) cross country teams both ranked in the top 25 of the USTFCCCA Coaches' Poll.
-In the Midwest Region, the men currently hold the No. 3 ranking while the women are slated No. 2.
-On the men's side, Martin Smith will send out one of the best squads he has had at Iowa State. The Cyclones began the year ranked No. 12 nationally, which was the highest preseason ranking in school history.
-Most recently, the men finished 16th at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational. Although it was an uncharacteristic race from the Cyclones, junior Andrew Jordan was the top Cyclone performer, finishing 24th individually.
-At the Hawkeye Invitational, the men swept the field. The Cyclones had six runners finish in the top-9 to secure a 6-0 record against the field in Iowa City.
-The No. 23 Iowa State women are looking to secure their sixth Big 12 title in seven trips to the conference championship. The Cyclones' string of four straight conference championships was snapped in 2015. It's the second longest streak in Big 12 history. (Colorado - 9).
-Freshman Cailie Logue has been outstanding for Andrea Grove-McDonough this season. Logue has been the top Cyclone finisher in all three events this season. She took first individually at the Hawkeye Invitational to begin the year, netting her Big 12 Runner of the Week Honors. She took fifth at the Roy Griak Invitational and 30th at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational.
-As a team, the women took 13th place at the Nuttycombe Invite. The Cyclones had four runners cross the finish line in the top-100 in Logue (30th), Anne Frisbie (36th), Amanda Vestri (89th) and Kelly Naumann (90th).
-The women climbed to No. 1 in the Midwest Regional poll after a runner-up finish at the Griak. Iowa State's three freshmen, Logue (5th), Amanda Vestri (18th) and Karly Ackley (40th) all posted top-40 performances. No other team in the field had more than one.
-ISU kicked off the season with a dominant performance at the Hawkeye Invitational. There, the Iowa State women toppled all other competing teams, posting a 5-0 mark.

No. 23 Iowa State Women Seek Continued Big 12 Success

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