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Iowa State University Athletics
No. 20 Iowa State Women Chase Midwest Regional Title
11.09.2017 | Cross Country
AMES, Iowa – The No. 20 Iowa State women's cross country team will compete at the NCAA Midwest Regional on Friday morning. This year, the regional will be held on the Cyclones' home turf at the Iowa State Cross Country Course.
The women's 6k race will begin at 10:45 a.m., followed by the men's 10k race at 11:45 a.m.
The men's region consists of 35 teams. The top-two finishing teams will automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships. Head Coach Andrea Grove-McDonough has her team's sights set on a ninth-straight NCAA Championships appearance.
The women are coming off of their sixth Big 12 Championship performance in seven years. They are currently pegged No. 2 in the region behind Minnesota, whom they beat earlier this season at the Griak Invitational.
Cyclone Notebook
-The Iowa State cross country teams will host the 2017 NCAA Midwest Regional Races. The Iowa State Cross Country Course will hold the Regional for the first time since 2013.
-The men will be looking to make back-to-back NCAA Championships appearances for the first time since 2008-2009, while the women are in search of their ninth-straight NCAA Championships birth.
-In the USTFCCCA national polls, the men are currently No. 14 and the women are No. 20. In the Midwest regional rankings, the men hold the top spot, while the women are No. 2.
-Both the men's and women's team are fresh off of Big 12 titles. It marks the first time since 1990 that both teams captured conference championships in the same season.
-On the men's side, Martin Smith's team won its first ever Big 12 Championship, and the first men's conference title since 1994.
-All five of the Cyclone scorers achieved All-Big 12 status. Andrew Jordan (4th), Thomas Pollard (5th), Dan Curts (6th), Stanley Langat (11th) and Milo Greder (14th) clocked AllConference finishes. Jordan, Pollard and Curts are repeat members of the All-Big 12 team, while Langat and Greder are first time members.
-Since 2013, Smith has coached 17 All-Big 12 runners.
-For the women, Andrea Gove-McDonough led her team to its sixth Big 12 title in seven years.
-At Old Settler's Park in Round Rock, Texas, four Cyclones earned All-Big 12 accolades. Cailie Logue (4th), Anne Frisbie (5th), Amanda Vestri (8th) and Kelly Naumann (14th) paced the Cyclones to the Big 12 Championship. This marks the second time that Frisbie has received All-Big 12 recognition.
-Grove-McDonough, who is a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year, has coached 21 All-Big 12 runners since 2013.
-Freshman Cailie Logue has been outstanding this season. Logue has been the top Cyclone finisher in all four 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.
-Along with Logue, freshmen Amanda Vestri and Karley Ackley have been great additions to the 2017 team. All three freshmen finished in the top-40 at the Roy Griak Invitational. No other team had more than one freshman in the top-40.
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