ACC Championships On The Docket – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. —  The postseason begins this week because the Stanford cross nation staff embarks on its second look on the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Cross Country Championships on Friday in Louisville, Ky. 

Stanford hits the course starting with the Women’s 6K Championship at 9:30 a.m. ET/ 6:30 a.m. PT adopted by the Men’s 8K Championship at 10:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. PT at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park. 

Live outcomes for Friday’s meet will be discovered here. 

The Cardinal returns to the paths following a profitable outing at one of many nation’s prime cross nation meets incomes prime finishes on the Wisconsin Nuttycombe Invitational. In a precursor to this weekend’s meet, the Stanford ladies nabbed eighth place general with Sophia Kennedy main the best way individually for the Cardinal. Kennedy nabbed a time of 19:48.8 in her season debut, climbing positions by every of the 2000m splits to earn the top-10 end. Following Kennedy, Hanne Thomsen and Mena Scatchard raced effectively with each putting contained in the top-60 harriers. 

On the lads’s aspect, Stanford positioned effectively with a sixteenth place end general. Leo Young led the best way for Stanford for the second-consecutive meet, putting thirty second general with a time of 23:48.6. Following Young, a quartet of Cardinal completed inside an 11 second break up as James Dargan, Evan Noonan, Byron Grevious and Josh Bell rounded out the scoring harriers for Stanford. 

Stanford’s entries for the Women’s 6K Championship embrace Sophia Kennedy, Mena Scatchard, Hanne Thomsen, Riley Stewart, Julia Flynn, Maya De Brouwer, Juliette Whittaker, Ava Parekh and Hillary Studdert. 

For the Men’s 8K Championship, Stanford enters Josh Bell, Toby Chippendale, James Dargan, Byron Grevious, Evan Noonan, Gavin Sherry, Nolan Topper, Quinn White and Leo Young. 

LAST TIME AT ACC’S

Stanford positioned effectively final season in its maiden debut on the ACC Championships, claiming runners-up in each the lads’s and girls’s championships at Wakemed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. 

On the lads’s aspect, Stanford combined into the top-25 en path to 69 staff factors which sat 9 again of ACC Champions Wake Forest (60 factors). Leading the Cardinal leaderboard was Cole Sprout who claimed a fourth place end within the occasion adopted by Thomas Boyden and Lex Young who claimed top-12 placements. Stanford returns 5 runners who positioned ultimately season’s championship led by Leo Young who completed in twenty third with a time of 23:05.3. 

For the Cardinal ladies, the Cardinal positioned second by way of a tiebreaker with North Carolina after Zofia Dudek nabbed the lone top-10 placement for the Cardinal. Stanford returns 5 harriers that raced in final season’s occasion together with Sophia Kennedy who nabbed eleventh general with a time of 19:52.3. Other contributors in final season’s version that may earn a crack at an ACC title on Friday embrace Riley Stewart, Julia Flynn, Juliette Whittaker and Hillary Studdert. 

THE FIELD

On the lads’s aspect, No. 27 Stanford ranks seventh amongst ACC groups which can be at present ranked within the newest USTFCCCA DI Men’s National Coaches’ Poll. Leading the cost at Friday’s 18-team meet is No. 4 Virginia, adopted by No. 6 Syracuse, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 23 North Carolina and No. 27 Virginia Tech. 

On the ladies’s aspect, No. 13 Stanford is amongst six groups which can be at present ranked contained in the top-30 nationally with No. 2 NC State headlining this Friday’s meet. Following the Wolfpack is No. 5 Notre Dame, Stanford, No. 15 Virginia, No. 28 Wake Forest and No. 30 Boston College.