Men's Track & X-Country Class

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Don't know if any will contribute to our X-C team this year, but Coach Ric Santos is bringing in thirteen newbies to the Track & X-C team. The article on the official Iona site lists their 'best' times, but I don't know how it translates to our X-C times. Most of the kids are from Canada and the US, with one Australian. IMO, the class represents a lot of hard work by Ric and his staff. Congrats Ric.

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SID, of the new kids, are/is there any one or two that stand out above the rest?

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Ric has announced that six recruits have joined the Women's team. And from the writeups it looks like a girl from Germany, Maya Rehberg, will be a vg X-C runner. However, I've been told that Kate Avery, who was already on the roster, and she's from England, might be our best ever. And we've had some great women runners. I'm not sure about the depth of the Women's team and the quality on the men's side. Should be an interesting year. If anyone has additional info, it would be great to hear from you.

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Looks like some see us as solid again!

Men


2013 Preseason — August 27
next poll: September 17

Rank Institution (FPV) Points Region Conference Cross Country Coach (Yr*) 2012 FINAL
1 Oklahoma State (10) 358 Midwest Big 12 Dave Smith (8th) 1
2 Northern Arizona (2) 349 Mountain Big Sky Eric Heins (7th) 4
3 Colorado 337 Mountain Pac-12 Mark Wetmore (19th) 3
4 BYU 307 Mountain West Coast Ed Eyestone (14th) 6
5 Arkansas 284 South Central SEC Chris Bucknam (6th) 10
5 Tulsa 284 Midwest Conference USA Steve Gulley (12th) 7
7 Wisconsin 279 Great Lakes Big Ten Mick Byrne (6th) 2
8 Portland 269 West West Coast Rob Conner (24th) 12
9 Syracuse 266 Northeast ACC Chris Fox (9th) 15
10 Princeton 254 Mid-Atlantic Ivy Jason Vigilante (2nd) 11
11 Eastern Kentucky 219 Southeast Ohio Valley Rick Erdmann (35th) 24
12 Oregon 203 West Pac-12 Robert Johnson (2nd) 20
13 UCLA 197 West Pac-12 Mike Maynard (5th) 13
14 Iona 193 Northeast Metro Atlantic Ricardo Santos (6th) 29
15 Texas 172 South Central Big 12 Mario Sategna (1st) 9
16 Stanford 167 West Pac-12 Chris Miltenberg (2nd) 16
17 Virginia 163 Southeast ACC Peter Watson (2nd) 14
18 Columbia 132 Northeast Ivy Willy Wood (20th) 17
19 New Mexico 127 Mountain Mountain West Joe Franklin (7th) 21
20 Indiana 126 Great Lakes Big Ten Ron Helmer (7th) 18
21 Florida State 125 South ACC Bob Braman (14th) 5
22 Notre Dame 116 Great Lakes ACC Joe Piane (39th) 28
23 Florida 112 South SEC Mike Holloway (7th) NR
24 Georgetown 110 Mid-Atlantic Big East Patrick Henner (15th) 25
25 NC State 91 Southeast ACC Rollie Geiger (36th) 26
26 Michigan 72 Great Lakes Big Ten Alex Gibby (4th) 23
27 Villanova 65 Mid-Atlantic Big East Marcus O’Sullivan (14th) 27
28 Duke 41 Southeast ACC Norm Ogilvie (23rd) 30
29 Dartmouth 28 Northeast Ivy Barry Harwick (22nd) NR
30 Michigan State 24 Great Lakes Big Ten Walt Drenth (10th) 31


Women (Regional)

1 Providence Providence, R.I. Big East 1
2 Cornell Ithaca, N.Y. Ivy 3
3 Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. ACC 4
4 Harvard Cambridge, Mass. Ivy 4
5 Syracuse Syracuse, N.Y. ACC 6
6 Iona New Rochelle, N.Y. Metro Atlantic 19
7 Columbia New York, N.Y. Ivy 9
8 Dartmouth Hanover, N.H. Ivy 10
9 Yale New Haven, Conn. Ivy 7
10 Brown Providence, R.I. Ivy 8
11 Connecticut Storrs, Conn. American 2
12 Stony Brook Stony Brook, N.Y. America East 11
13 Vermont Burlington, Vt. America East 12
14 New Hampshire Durham, N.H. America East 13
15 Boston University Boston, Mass. Patriot 18

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Men's team won the Brother Doyle MOC on Saturday, though against a pretty week field. Freshman, Kiernan Clements was the first Iona runner (he finished second) and I think we had our top five runners in the top twelve. Not sure who didn't run. On the Women's side, we ran second to Albany, with Kate Avery and Maya Rehberg running one-two. Avery must be REALLY good as she finished nearly ONE MINUTE ahead. Again, not sure who didn't run. W/o being able to project her time, it seems that she'll(Kate Avery) be a high finisher at the Nationals.