NCAA D3 Qualifiers

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INDIANAPOLIS—The NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced today the team and individual qualifiers for the 2010 Division III Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective NCAA regions.

Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the eight regions, for a total of 16 teams. Sixteen additional teams were selected at-large.

Fifty-six individuals, the first seven athletes from each region who are not a part of a qualifying team, were selected to participate in each championship.

Wartburg College will host the championships, November 20, at Max Championship Cross Country Course in Waverly, Iowa. The men’s race will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern time followed by the women’s race at noon Eastern time.

The following teams and individuals were selected to the championships:

Men’s Automatic Qualifying Teams
Men’s At-large Teams

Calvin
Albion

Centre
Allegheny

Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Brandeis

Dickinson
Carnegie Mellon

Grinnell
Colorado College

Haverford
Elizabethtown

Luther
Hamline

Lynchburg
Middlebury

MIT
Nebraska Wesleyan

North Central (Illinois)
New York University

St. Lawrence
Ohio Wesleyan

SUNY Geneseo
Rochester (New York)

Wabash
Washington U. in St. Louis

Willamette
Whitworth

Williams
Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Wisconsin-Platteville
Wisconsin-Stevens Poin



Women’s Automatic Qualifying Team
Women’s At-large Teams

Calvin
Amherst

Claremont –Mudd-Scripps
Case Western Reserve

Dickinson
Chicago

Emory
SUNY Cortland

SUNY Geneseo
Elizabethtown

Hope
Grove City

Johns Hopkins
Haverford

Luther
MIT

Middlebury
Nebraska Wesleyan

Rhodes
New York University

St. Lawrence
Oberlin

Wartburg
Plattsburgh State

Washington U. in St. Louis
St. Olaf

Whitworth
Whittier

Williams
Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin-Stevens Point


Men’s Individual Automatic Qualifiers




West Region


Eric
Kleinsasser
Occidental


Jeremy
Kalmus
Redlands


Ray
Ostrander
Cal Lutheran


AJ
Licon
La Verne

Charles
Enscoe
Pomona-Pitzer BEREKELEY HIGH SCHOOL

Alex
Johnson
Pomona-Pitzer THOUSAND OAKS HIGH SCHOOL


Robin
Harkins
Puget Sound



Women’s Individual Automatic Qualifiers



West Region

Annie
Lyndens
Pomona-Pitzer

Emily
Thomas
Lewis & Clark

Kimber
Mattox
Willamette

Illana
Livstrom
Lewis & Clark

Toccoa
Kahovec
Cal Lutheran

Kristen
Ballinger
Whitman

Theresa
Edwards
Willamette

In 2009, the North Central College men’s team captured its thirteenth championship (its first since 1999), hosted by Baldwin-Wallace College. They finished with 50 points to defeat runner-up Williams College, which finished with 181 points.

On the women’s side, the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire defeated St. Lawrence University to win its first championship. Wisconsin-Eau Claire totaled 171 points to St. Lawrence’s 189.

Individual honors went to Wendy Pavlus of St. Lawrence who won the individual title, finishing 17 seconds ahead of Bethel University’s (Minnesota) Marie Borner. In the men’s championship, individual honors went to Ricky Flynn of Lynchburg College. Kosgei finished 23 seconds ahead of Michael Spain of North Central (Illinois).

For more information regarding the championships, log on to www.ncaa.com.









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Tom Lewis

U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association

Communications Manager

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