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Cross Country: Conner leads way at NCAA Qualifier

At a National Collegiate Athletic Association qualifying meet that senior runner Jordan Daniel called “pouring and sloppy,” the University of Maine cross country teams ran hard in hopes of earning a shot at the national championship meet.

“Some of the puddles were mid-calf, and the mud was often as deep as their shoes,” said senior captain Brenna Walsh, who did not race. “I got almost as muddy running around watching them race as they did racing.”

With fierce competition from all over the northeast flocking to Franklin Park in Boston, the women’s team, led by regional and conference champion Corey Conner, came away with a hard-fought 10th place showing out of 40 teams.

Conner finished ninth with a time of 22 minutes, 29 seconds on the 6-kilometer course. The difference between her and first-place finisher Katie Hursey of Syracuse was 32 seconds.

The NCAA championship field is comprised of 255 runners. The top two teams from each of the nine regions ­— in this case Syracuse University and Providence College — are automatically in, while 13 teams are given at-large bids. Given there are seven runners on a team, that accounts for 217 runners. Eighteen runners are awarded bids by virtue of being the top four individual finishers who did not receive an automatic team bid. Twenty more runners are awarded individual bids based on NCAA selection.

Source: The Maine Campus

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