Harriers
Set for NYU Invite
by Review Staff
When
the mens and womens cross country teams reach New York
City tonight, it will be interesting to see how the city is handling
itself.
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Out
For a Sunday Stroll: Two Yeomen
cross country runners work on their distance training
during practice at North Fields. (photo by Jonathon
Solars)
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Both teams will be running in the New York University Invitational
in Upper Manhattan. The race, which takes place in Van Cortlandt
Park in the Bronx, will see up to 300 people in both the mens
and womens races coming from nearly 50 different schools.
After the bombings at the World Trade Center last Tuesday, this
race became a huge question mark. Host college NYU was shut down
until Sept. 14, when classes formally resumed, but as with most
of the colleges across the nation, sporting events were cancelled.
Manhattan, where NYU is located, is still recovering from the events,
and much of the lower part of the island is still closed, with all
tenants having been evacuated.
It will definitely be somber to some extent, but the fact
they are holding the event at all shows that we are all moving on,
but with a great deal of respect, sophomore Sarah Bennett
said.
Division
III schools from all over will gather to run in the huge invitational.
I think both teams have the potential to finish high,
Bennett said.
The men will look to fifth-year senior John Rogers and sophomores
Alex Scally and Adam Greeney to lead the team in the five mile run,
while the women will look to juniors Lori Tuchfeld, Laura Feeney
and Kyle McKenzie and sophomore Julia Goeke to set the pace in the
3.1 mile event.
The all-day event will kick off at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Thus far this season, the Yeomen and Yeowomen have ventured to the
Ohio University Relays and the Allegheny Invitational.
At the Relays in Athens, Ohio, both the men and womens teams
racked up impressive runs, with the team of junior co-captains Lori
Tuchfeld and Laura Feeney leading the women and the tandem of senior
John Rogers and first-year Ryan McGinnis pacing the way for the
mens squad.
The teams second meet of the year at the Allegheny Invite,
in Meadesville, Pa., proved to be a good indication of the potential
both teams possess. The men finished fifth out of 11 teams, while
the women tallied a low score to place third of seven teams. Rogers
led the way for the men, finishing with a time of 28:07, and Feeney
led the womens team with a time of 19:55.
Both teams looked at the invitational in Meadesville as a form of
tune-up for the rest of the season, as after the NYU Invitational
they will travel to the All-Ohio Championships at Ohio Wesleyan
on Oct. 5 and the Ohio Northern Invitational on Oct. 13 and the
North Coast Athletic Conference Championships (which Oberlin hosted
for the first time in school history last season) at NCAA Great
Lakes Regional at Kalamazoo, Mich. on Nov. 10.
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