Seminoles Head to Huntsville for Southern Showcase

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida State cross nation groups can be competing on the Southern Showcase hosted by Jacksonville State on Friday, September 12.

The meet will happen at John Hunt Cross Country Park, with the boys’s workforce slated to take part within the 8K race, which begins at 8:30 a.m. ET, whereas the ladies’s workforce is competing within the 5k at 9:30 a.m. ET. Live timing can be available.

The Southern Showcase will function a preview for the Seminoles on the 2025 NCAA South Regional Championship later within the season. The John Hunt Park course is 10 meters huge, with a manicured grass floor and a number of spurred loops. This course is situated on the south facet of the park and accommodates all ranges of groups. There are additionally round two miles of strolling trails for all coaches and spectators to see the race.

The Seminoles will be part of a big discipline of opponents at Friday’s meet, which can characteristic 50 groups on the boys’s facet and 54 on the ladies’s facet. Florida State can be joined by a number of Atlantic Coast Conference foes, together with Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Miami.

Eighteen runners are anticipated to compete for the Seminoles. Rylee Blade will make her collegiate debut on the ladies’s facet, whereas Margaret Bartlow, Nicole Dinan, Ansley Kelley, Ella Menke, Ella Pasko, Ava Povich, and Lindy White return to the lineup after opening their seasons two weeks in the past.

The males’s runners representing Florida State can be seniors Lucas Bouquot, Aniol Borràs and Zach Trotter; juniors Kaden Levings, Bernado Barnhart, sophomore Garrett Stickley; and freshmen Parker Adams, Aidan Ryan and Gino Palazzolo.

LAST TIME OUT

Florida State opened the season on the Intercollegiate Florida Invite on August 29 in Jacksonville as the ladies’s workforce positioned second general.

Dinan led the ladies’s 5k for the Seminoles, crossing the road in fifth with a private better of 17:18.0, marking the second top-five end of her profession. Bartlow made her collegiate debut, putting sixth at 17:23.5. Lindy White positioned seventh with a lifetime better of 17:48.3, whereas Povich adopted in eighth with a time of 17:52.3. Avery Cahoon was the fifth FSU scorer at 18:46.9 (twenty sixth). 

The males’s workforce completed fourth general as a workforce with 98 factors, as Levings confirmed veteran management, main the Seminoles within the 8k, crossing the road in 14th at 25:17.9.

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