North Carolina State University Athletics
Men's Cross Country Moves Up To No. 11
9/20/2011 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
Sept. 20, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — After overwhelming the field in the season-opening adidas Cross Country Challenge, NC State’s men’s cross country team moved up to 11th in this week’s United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) national poll.
The first 12 finishers in the adidas Challenge were from NC State, including nine runners offically running for the Wolfpack and three competing unattached. The Wolfpack remains the top-ranked team from the Atlantic Coast Conference and from the NCAA Southeast Region.
The NC State women, who also finished first at the adidas Challenge, held their spot in the polls at No. 21. The women has a team score of 23 at the adidas, but two NC State runners, Andie Cozzarelli and Erin Mercer, ran unattached and finished first and third, respectively. Had they run attached, that would have shaved three points off NC State’s team score.
The Wolfpack is the fifth-ranked women’s team from a loaded ACC in the women’s poll, and the fourth-ranked team in the Southeast Region.
NC State will compete this coming Saturday at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minn.
