Letsrun.com Ranks Men #9
The rather well visited site, LetsRun.com today ranked the men 9th in the US (still waiting for their women's poll). Ranked #1 was Oklahoma and #3 was NAU which was only 7 points ahead of the men's team at the Jamboree meet. W&M has had several teams in the top 10 at the NCAA meet including a high of 4th in 1973. The pre-national meet in two weeks will tell if this ranking can continue further in the season. A week ago the coaches' association ranked the team 13th.

Cowboy Jamboree
The men are on top and below is the women's race from yesterday. (note the men's race will say "5K," but it is the 8K)

Men 2nd and Women 3rd at OSU Invitational

Both teams put together a great race at the OSU Invitational with the men beating #2OSU (albeit without their #1 and 2 runners). The men also came close (7 pts.) to NSU that is ranked #5 in the nation. The spread between 1 and 5 was under 30 seconds with Jon Grey leading the charge followed by Wilhelm Patterson and Colin Leak. More

The women were more spread out, but Emily Anderson showed the strength she gained from running 5Ks in the spring finishing 11th overall followed by Kayley Byrne and Meghan Burns in 20th and 23rd. Even more importantly the women beat the #15th team in the US and are hopefully thinking of going back to the NCAA meet for the first time in many years. More

Overall results

Opps! Inter-Regional
The men and women finished 2nd at the Inter-Regional LAST week (sorry about that). Kayle Byrne finished 2nd with All-American Emily Anderson in 3rd and Sallie Ford in 8th. More For the men, Skeeter Morris was 5th with Max Werner in sith and Chris Tyson in 10th. More

Tomorrow the men's and women's team will be at the Cowboy Jamboree which will have video coverage here at 10:10 am and the men at 10:45 am (EST).  Above is a video look at the course. 

Deb Boykin

For those of you who ran in the 1980, you will well remember coach Jim Goggin (who is still teaching in Williamsburg).  Well, his wife, Debbie Boykin, is featured in this month's alumni magazine. 

Men Ranked 15th in Pre-Season Poll

Yes, that's right, pre-season since most of the teams have not let their top runner get in a race yet. 

Women's Recruits
Here are the XC women that Coach Newberry recruited.

Men's XC Recruits
Gibby was hard at work last year getting all the new XC recruits which you can read about here.

Men's Recruits
Gibby has been hard at work getting new runners. Here are the XC ones. More

XC Season Begins
Gibby and Newberry who traditionally wait until late in Sept to start the season actually let a few of their athletes run today in an XC meet. The men were second to URichmond (enough said about how many athletes didn't run) and the women were second as well. Come back in a few days for the bios on "the new kids" and a few days later we'll have an interview with the coaches. Leading the way were Alex McGrath and Liam Anastasia-Murphy for the men and Brittany Sevachko and Robin Vanneman for the women.