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Cross Country
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Men: 1st, Women: 1st
Iowa State University Athletics
Friday, November 9
Peoria, Ill.
11:00 AM
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NCAA Midwest Regional Championship
ISU Off To Defend Men's and Women's Regional Titles
11.07.2018 | Cross Country
AMES, Iowa – The No. 6 Iowa State men's cross country team and No. 15 Iowa State women's cross country team are bound for Peoria, Illinois and the 2018 NCAA Midwest Regional Championships.
Newman Golf Course and Bradley University are set to host this year's regional championships. The women's 6k race will begin on Friday morning at 11 a.m., followed by the men's 10k race at noon. The top two teams in each race will advance to the NCAA Championships in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday, Nov. 17.
Cyclone Notebook
*The Iowa State men's and women's cross country teams will be looking to defend their
NCAA Midwest Regional titles. The women are competing for their third in a row, while
the men aiming for back-to-back Regional titles.
*Last season, the men and women were victorious on their home course, the ISU Cross
Country Course. This year, the Regional is set in Peoria, Ill. and will be ran at Newman Golf
Course.
*Iowa State is coming off a historic Big 12 Championship. The men and women both took
home team titles, while Edwin Kurgat and Cailie Logue made it a clean sweep for ISU by
winning the men's and women's individual titles. It was the first time since 2003 that a team
brought home both team titles and both individual titles at the Big 12 Championship.
*Kurgat led a pack of ISU runners that accounted for five of the top-11 finishers. Andrew
Jordan (5th), Dan Curts (6th), Milo Greder (9th) and Chad Johnson (11th) along with
Kurgat made up the Cyclone five earning All-Big 12 honors.
*Like the men, Logue paced the women to five individual All-Big 12 finishes. Logue (1st),
Anne Frisbie (6th), Amanda Vestri (7th), Kelly Naumann (10th) and Larkin Chapman (11th)
each earned All-Conference recognition for their finishes.
*The women's team title was their seventh in eight seasons and their third in a row. Logue
became Iowa State's first Big 12 individual champ since 2015 (Perez Rotich).
*After winning its first Big 12 title in 2017, Iowa State backed up that performance with
another title run. Kurgat is Iowa State's first ever Big 12 individual champ and the first
runner to ever finish inside the top-3 at the conference meet.
*Coming into the regional championships, the men are ranked No. 6 nationally in the
USTFCCCA National Coaches' Poll, while the women are ranked No. 15. Both squads hold
the top spot in the Midwest Regional rankings.
*The Big 12 announced its Academic All-Big 12 teams. Milo Greder, Andrew Jordan, John
Nownes, Thomas Pollard, Karly Ackley, Abby Caldwell, Larkin Chapman, Annie Frisbie,
Anna Herriott, Cailie Logue, Kelly Naumann, Erinn Stenman-Fahey, Amanda Vestri and
Gwynne right were all first-team honorees. Zach Black and Dan Curts were named to the
second team.
*Individually, All-American Kurgat finished runner-up at the Nuttycombe this season. He
was awarded Big 12 Runner of the Week honors for his outstanding performance.
*First-year women's head coach Amy Rudolph inherited a bunch of young talent.
Sophomores Cailie Logue, Amanda Vestri and Karly Ackley continue to shine for the
Cardinal and Gold. They've been three of Iowa State's top-five performers in every race
that they've ran in this season.
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