North Carolina State University Athletics
News and Notes from the ACC Cross Country Championships
11/2/1999 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
Men
--With their win Saturday, NC State captured their fifth consecutive ACC Championship and ninth overall. It was also the seventh of the decade.
--Monday's win was also Head Coach Rollie Geiger's eighth mens title and 22nd overall.
--NC State's score of 16 is an ACC record, surpassing the mark of 18 by the Wolfpack in 1995.
--NC State finished 54 points ahead of second-place Duke with 70. This is the largest margin of victory in ACC history. The previous record was 49 points by NC State on three occasions.
--NC State set the record for most runners on the All-ACC team with seven. The old record was six, set by the Wolfpack in 1997.
--Two-time All-American Chan Pons won the individual title Monday, becoming the fifth NC State runner to do so this decade. It is also the seventh time that NC State has had an individual champion in school history.
--Chan and Corby Pons were named to the All-ACC squad for the fourth time in their career. They join Jim Wilkins, father of NC State freshman Bradsher Wilkins, as the only Wolfpack runners in school history to accomplish such a feat.
Women
--All-American Christy Nichols won the individual championship Monday, the ninth individual championship for NC State in its history.
--This was the first time the women did not win the ACC title since 1994. It was also only the fifth time in ACC history that NC State did not win the conference title.
--Chan Pons and Christy Nichols became the first teammates to win ACC titles in the same year since Wolfpack runners Tony Riley and Kristen Hall accomplished the feat in 1993.
