Peterson 12th, Moore 15th, Monson 19th at .US 12K Road Championships

Team USA Minnesota's Jonathan Peterson finished twelfth on Sunday at the .US 12K Championship in Alexandria, Virginia in 34:55.  "Very solid 34:55/12th for current stage of training!" wrote Team USA Minnesota coach Dennis Barker on Twitter. "Not the results I wanted today, but still strong effort in a respectable field." added Peterson. Former TCTC member Joe Moore finished fifteenth in 35:15. Hamline grad Devin Monson was 19th in 35:45.

Results are HERE.

USATF Minnesota XC Championships Results

Pat Billig(left) and women's 6K winner Stephanie Price at the finish
Photo by Melissa Agnew

One might have opted for XC skis rather than spikes for the Minnesota USATF XC races this morning at Fort Snelling.  Results for all the races are HERE.

Run 'N Fun Women pose for a post-race photo.

Cara Donohue Wins NIRCA Women's Title

University of Minnesota grad student Cara Donohoe won the woman's A race 6K at the NIRCA Championships in East Lansing, Michigan on Saturday in  22:24.8.  Full results are HERE. The University of Minnesota women's team finished seventh.  Full team results are HERE.

The U of MN men's team was fifth in the A race(full team scores HERE).  Peter Hoganson was the top finisher for the men in seventh for the 8K course in 26:05.2(individual results are HERE.)  Results for all the races are HERE.  The event concludes on Sunday with an Open 5K.

CORRECTION: In an earlier version I said she was defending her title. Donohoe corrected that error: "It was an exciting race.  Last year I actually came in second place, so it was fun to win this year!"

USTFCCCA Speculation on Who Will Get Selected for At Large Spots in NCAA DIII

USTFCCCA watchers have looked at the results of the NCAA DIII Regionals and put together their thoughts on what teams might get picked to fill the 16 slots open for the Championship Meet HERE.

NCAA DI Women's At Large and Individual Qualifiers Selected

Women’s Automatic Qualifying Teams

Arkansas
Baylor
Boise State
Colorado
Florida State
Georgetown
Iona
Iowa State
Michigan State
Minnesota
New Mexico
Oregon
Providence
Vanderbilt
Virginia
West Virginia
William and Mary
Wisconsin

Women’s At-large Teams

Boston College
Dartmouth
Michigan
North Carolina
NC State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Stanford
Syracuse
Toledo
UCLA
Virginia Tech
Washington

Women's Individual Qualifiers

Great Lakes Region

Victoria Voronko, Eastern Michigan
Sofie Gallein, Eastern Michigan
Maria McDaniel, Western Michigan
Abbey Kelto, Central Michigan

Mid-Atlantic Region

Megan Curham, Princeton
Morgan Szekely, La Salle
Elizabeth Weiler, Lehigh
Jillian Hunsberger, Penn State

Midwest Region

Courtney Frerichs, UMKC
Erin Teschuk, North Dakota State
Monika Juodeskaite, Oklahoma State
Karissa Schweizer, Missouri
Laura Galvan, Kansas State
Amber Eichkorn, South Dakota

Mountain Region

Andrea Harrison, BYU
Carrie Jube, BYU
Holly Page, Wyoming
Melanie Townsend, Northern Arizona

Northeast Region

Lauren Sara, UConn
Kira Garry, Yale
Emily Durgin, UConn
Rosa Moriello, Boston U.

South Region
Chelsea Blaase, Tennessee
Rhianwedd Price, Mississippi State
Anne-Marie Blaney, UCF
Hannah Maina, Middle Tennessee

South Central Region
Agnes Sjostrom, SMU
Cali Roper, Rice
Hillary Montgomery, Texas A&M
Grace Fletcher, Texas A&M

Southeast Region
Allie Buchalski, Furman
Kyla Van Graan, Coastal Carolina
Letitia Saayman, Coastal Carolina
Ann Eason, Eastern Kentucky

West Region
Shelby Houlihan, Arizona State
Bethan Knights, California
Tansey Lystad, Portland
Raquel Hefflin, UC Riverside

NCAA press release is HERE. 

NCAA DI Men's At Large and Individual Qualifiers Selected

The NCAA just sent out the Men's At-large Selections for the NCAA DI Championships
Men’s Automatic Qualifying Teams 
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida State
Furman
Georgetown
Michigan State
Northern Arizona
Oklahoma State
Ole Miss
Oregon
Portland
Providence
Syracuse
Texas
Tulsa
Villanova
Virginia
Wisconsin

Men’s At-large Teams
BYU
Colorado State
Eastern Kentucky
Indiana
Iona
Michigan
New Mexico
North Carolina
Southern Utah
Stanford
UCLA
UTEP
Washington

Women’s Automatic Qualifying Teams 
Arkansas
Baylor
Boise State
Colorado
Florida State
Georgetown
Iona
Iowa State
Michigan State
Minnesota
New Mexico
Oregon
Providence
Vanderbilt
Virginia
West Virginia
William and Mary
Wisconsin

Women’s At-large Teams
Boston College
Dartmouth
Michigan
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Stanford
Syracuse
Toledo
UCLA
Virginia Tech
Washington

Men’s Individual Qualifiers

Great Lakes Region

John Mascari, Indiana State
Matt McClintock, Purdue
Eric Peterson, Butler
Michael Clevenger, Notre Dame
Joseph Stewart, Miami (Ohio)

Mid-Atlantic Region

Matt Fischer, Penn State
Thomas Awad, Pennsylvania
Ryan Mahalsky, Lehigh
Stephen Schroeder, Navy

Midwest Region

Sam Penzenstadler, Loyola Chicago
Aaron Bartnik, Minnesota
Dan Curts, Iowa State
Brogan Austin, Drake
Jacob Morgan, Kansas

Mountain Region

Amos Bowen, Wyoming
JakeTurner, Montana State
Riley Coates, Air Force
Eric Shellhorn, Utah State

Northeast Region

Kevin Dooney, Yale
Jack Boyle, Columbia
Daniel Everett, Columbia
Tom Purnell, Harvard

South Region

Ty McCormack, Auburn
Austin Whitelaw, Tennessee
Kane Grimster, Auburn
Christoph Graf, South Alabama

South Central Region

Sam Stabler, Lamar
Brain Barraza, Houston
Charles Mathenge, Stephen F. Austin
Troy Taylor, North Texas

Southeast Region

Luis Vargas, Elon
Edwin Kibichiy, Louisville
Ernest Kibe, Louisville
George Parsons, NC State

West Region

Chris Walden, California
Ryan Herson, Arizona State
Andrew Rafla, Boise State
Jose Madera, San Francisco

NCAA Press release is HERE

St. Olaf Wins Central Region Men's Team Title, Wintheiser Takes Individual Title, MIAC Sweep of Top 3 Women's Team Spots; Plus Midwest Region Results

They're off an running in Iowa.

Predictable thus far, two miles into the race Eli Horton of Central College is out in front.  St. Olaf's top five are packed up front, four Central College guys in the mix, but their fifth man is back in 26th.  The Ole's have five in the top ten, Central has four.  Horton has a six second lead over Grant Wintheiser with Jake Campbell about six seconds behind Wintheiser.

At three miles, Wintheiser has taken over and St. Olaf is pulling away in the team race.  Five MIAC teams in the top ten with Hamline in 11th in the team competition.  Wintheiser is leading by a little over two seconds, Horton in second, Hart Horner of Carleton is in third.  St. Thomas is fourth, Carleton fifth in the team race followed by St. John's in seventh, Gustavus in tenth, Hamline 11th, Macalester 13th.Augsburg 14th, St. Mary's 15th, St. Scholastica 16th, Martin Luther 18th, Bethel 21st.

A tenth past four miles and Wintheiser and St. Olaf continue to pull away. Loras has moved to second in the team race, Central is third, Carleton fourth and St. Thomas fifth.St. John's eighth, Hamline ninth, and Gustavus tenth.  Wintheiser has opened his lead to 21 seconds over Horton, Jake Campbell is third, Horner fourth, Jake Brown and Paul Escher fifth and sixth, respectively.  The Ole's fifth man, Phillip Meyer, is eighth.  Loras has packed it's top three men in seventh, ninth, and tenth.  Hamline's Ryan Peterson is 12th, St. John's Thomas Feichtinger 13th, St. Thomas' Jacob Gerhartz 16th with teammate Dylan Baumann 18th.  Carleton duo of Jonah Barry and Donson Cook-Gallardo 19th and 20th respectively. Final results will be posted once they are official... Full results now up HERE.  Top five men's teams and scoring below:

1 St Olaf 21
2 Loras 78
3 Central 82
4 Carleton 132
5 St. Thomas 156

St. Olaf SID recap of Region performance for men's team is  HERE.

Midwest Region men'sresults are in.  Team top ten is below:
1 North Central (Ill.) 51
2 UW - Eau Claire 108
3 UW - La Crosse 110
4 Washington U. 135
5 UW - Stout 158
6 UW - Platteville 171
7 UW - Oshkosh 184
8 UW - Stevens Point 220
9 U. of Chicago 252
10 Augustana (Ill.) 266

Full Midwest Region men's results are HERE.

Women's MW Team Scores 1 Washington U. 62 2 UW - La Crosse 91 3 U. of Chicago 99 4 North Central (Ill.) 149 5 UW - Eau Claire 168 6 Wheaton (Ill.) 172 7 UW - Oshkosh 210 8 Aurora 241 9 UW - Stevens Point 252 9 UW - Stout 252 Full Midwest Region women's results are HERE.

Wayzata grad Josh Thorson of UW Eau Claire finished third in the men's race in 24:09.9. UW Eau Claire's coach Dan Schwamberger does a YouTube recap of the Midwest Regional results for the team HERE.

The Central women's race is over, but they appear to have cut off the live feed, only woman's split thus far was at 600 meters.

Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, they ran the Minnesota USATF XC Championships this morning on a "real" cross country course :-) Skis anyone...

Dan Greeno dashing through the snow...

MIAC Sweep of the top three team places in the Central Region women's race. Carlton's Ruth Steinke wins individual title in 21:16. Team scores:

1 Carleton 60
2 St Olaf 81
3 St Thomas 127
4 Wartburg 173

Full women's results HERE
Carleton SID recap is HERE.