Wildcats Proceed Season with Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Okay-State males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups will compete within the first of three races within the month of October on Friday (October 3) on the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind., at Burke Golf Course.

The majority of the ladies’s crew will compete within the Blue Division 5k beginning at 8:50 a.m., CT. The males’s crew will race within the Gold Division 8k at 11:30 a.m., CT. Some extra ladies’s runners will take part within the ladies’s Open Division at 10:10 a.m., CT.

The ladies’s crew within the Blue Division will compete towards USTFCCCA nationally ranked #10 Notre Dame, in addition to face fellow Big 12 Conference member Cincinnati. The Wildcats will get the primary style of Midwest area competitors as Bradley, Illinois and Iowa will even be racing within the Blue Division.

This race might be the primary of the season for 3 ladies, sophomore Stella Miner, junior Vienna Lahner, in her first season on the cross nation crew, and senior Alexa Rios.

To kick off the primary race on September 5 within the Platte River Rumble Gold the ladies’s crew gained the race with simply 34 factors. Senior Cecilia Fisher completed runner-up within the 5k race with a private greatest time of 17:21.52, the no. 21 time within the Okay-State all-time information. Fellow senior Grace Meyer (3^rd; 17:29.40) and sophomore Christine Jerono (5^th; 17:31.45) additionally had their greatest private races by greater than 30 seconds.

The males’s crew completed in 3^rd place with 79 factors led by sophomores Jackson Esquibel (9^th; 18:07.45) and Brock Olsen (10^th; 18:11.60). With the crew that includes 5 freshmen, Dylan Plath (16^th; 18:24.02) and Logan Beckman (21^st; 18:28.23) completed within the top-25.

This would be the first journey again to South Bend for Okay-State because the 2019 season. That season each the women and men competed within the Gold Division, the boys ending in 3^rd place, the ladies in 19^th.

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