Mountain Lions Compete for Fifth Trip to National Championships on Saturday
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - No. 14 University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's cross country team will compete against new regional teams and will look to claim one of the five spots to the national championships in the 2012 NCAA Division II South Central Region Championships on Saturday morning at Willis Case Golf Course in Denver. The women's six-kilometer race begins at 11:30 a.m.
The Mountain Lions will look to make their fifth trip to the national championships and their first since the 2006 season. The new South Central Region, with teams from the RMAC, Heartland Conference and Lone Star Conference, has five automatic qualifiers for the national championships to be held Nov. 17 in Joplin, Mo.
The 2012 championship season will mark the first season with expanded fields approved by the NCAA Division II Championships Committee in August 2011. The national meet will host 24 teams and 24 individual at-large runners at the Missouri Southern State University Cross Country Course in Joplin.
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| December 13, 2012 |  | Neher Earns RMAC All-Academic Second Team Spot | Madison Neher, an All-RMAC and all-region runner for the University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's cross country team, earned a spot on the RMAC All-Academic Second Team announced on Wednesday. Angie Martell, Sarah Treese and Sara Kettelkamp also earned a spot on the RMAC Academic Honor Roll. |
| November 17, 2012 |  | Burrell Earns All-America Honor as Mountain Lions Place 10th | Megan Burrell finished in 21 minutes, 16.1 seconds and placed No. 37 overall for All-America honors to lead the University of Colorado Colorado Springs to a No. 10 finish at the 2012 NCAA Division II Women's Cross Country National Championships this morning. |
| November 16, 2012 |  | Steady Climb Leads No. 11 UCCS to National Championships | JOPLIN, Mo. – In a season that has seen the University of Colorado Colorado Springs women’s cross country team continue to gradually climb the national rankings, the No. 11 Mountain Lions look to make their return to the national stage memorable on Saturday when they compete in the 2012 NCAA Division II Women’s Cross Country National Championships. The women’s six-kilometer race begins at 10:30 a.m. MST from the Missouri Southern State University Cross Country Course in Joplin, Mo. |
| November 7, 2012 |  | UCCS Improves to No. 11 in Latest National Ranking | NEW ORLEANS – A third-place finish at last weekend’s NCAA Division II South Central Region Championships moved the University of Colorado Colorado Springs women’s cross country team into No. 11 in the new U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Rankings released this afternoon. |
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