Three Wolverines Named All-B1G Lead U-M to Fourth-Place Finish at B1G Championships

Site: East Lansing, Mich. (Forest Akers East Golf Course)

Event: Big Ten Championships

Distance: Eight Kilometers

U-M Team Finish: 4th of 15 Teams (100 factors)

Top U-M Individual: Nathan Lopez, forty third Place (21:01.6)

Next U-M Event: Friday, Nov. 14 — at NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Evansville, Ind.), 10 a.m. CT

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The No. 25-ranked University of Michigan males’s cross nation crew completed fourth on the Big Ten Championships on Friday (Oct. 31) at Forest Akers East Golf Course, led by a trio of Wolverines who earned All-Big Ten honors for his or her efforts.

Oregon took the crew title with 36 factors, whereas Michigan State (68), Wisconsin (90) and Washington (135) rounded out the highest 5.

Senior Nathan Lopez led the squad by way of the primary kilometer, coming in at No. 10 forward of Trent McFarland in sixteenth. Caleb Jarema (twenty second) and Luke Venhuizen (twenty sixth) represented the Wolverines within the high 30, placing U-M at second general on the first checkpoint.

Michigan and Michigan State fought for second the vast majority of the race, swapping locations till the midway mark, when the Spartans sat in second place and the Maize and Blue sat third.

Lopez moved into sixth with the ultimate three kilometers to go, whereas Venhuizen sat in sixteenth, McFarland in twenty second and Jarema twenty seventh. Nolan Clark (thirty second) and Brendan Herger (thirty eighth) have been simply exterior the highest 30.

At the 6K mark, Lopez moved into fifth for his highest place of the race. Venhuizen dropped to nineteenth, however McFarland moved up two spots to twentieth.

With the ultimate kilometer remaining, Lopez fell three spots to eighth whereas each Venhuizen and McFarland moved up 5 spots to sit down in 14th and fifteenth, respectively.

Lopez was the lead Wolverine for the third time this season, ending eleventh with a time of 23:41.6. McFarland (23:46.9) overtook Venhuizen (23:47.7) to complete 14th and fifteenth, respectively. Jarema positioned twenty seventh (24:05.4) and Herger was thirty fifth (24:15.3). Freshman Luke Alverson made his Big Ten Championships debut, ending thirty sixth with a personal-best time of 24:15.9.

Lopez, McFarland and Venhuizen have been named All-Big Ten second crew for ending within the high 20.

Michigan will return to motion at 11 a.m. CT on Friday, Nov. 14, on the NCAA Great Lakes Regional in Evansville, Ind., the place the Wolverines will vie for a bid to the NCAA Championships.

Full Michigan Results

11. Nathan Lopez — 23:41.6

14. Trent McFarland — 23:46.9

15. Luke Venhuizen — 23:47.7

27. Caleb Jarema — 24:05.4

35. Brendan Herger — 24:15.3

36. Luke Alverson — 24:15.9

42. Nolan Clark — 24:19.9

44. Kyler McNatt — 24:21.3

67. Jack Kelke — 24:40.7

68. Aiden Sullivan — 24:41.2

70. William Beardsley — 24:41.9

114. Riley Flemington — 25:28.4