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PREVIEW | No. 6 Women’s Cross Country Travels South for NCAA South Central Regional Meet

11/4/2021 4:28:00 PM

THIS WEEK'S MEET
  • No. 6 University of Colorado Colorado Springs women's cross country team will head South to Lubbock, Texas for the 2021 NCAA South Central Regional meet on Saturday, Nov. 6, hosted by Lubbock Christian University.  The women's 6k race will begin at 8 a.m. (MT), followed by the men's 10k race at 9:15 a.m. (MT).
 
MEET INFORMATION  
LAST TIME OUT
  • Layla Almasri led UCCS to a third-place finish at the 2021 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Cross Country 6k championship meet on Oct. 23, finishing second overall in 21:36.4 as the Mountain Lions scored 90 team points to place third out of 15 teams. Almasri's runner-up finish was her highest finish at a RMAC Championship meet as she earned her second straight All-RMAC First Team award.  She was joined on the All-RMAC First Team by Hannah Ellis who posted a 10th place finish with a personal best 6k time of 22:26.7.  Competing in her first career 6k race, Anna Fauske earned an All-RMAC Second Team honor after crossing the finish line in 16th place in 22:45.8.  Riley McGrath came in fourth for the Mountain Lions and 29th overall with a time of 23:14.0, followed by Kate Hedlund in 33rd place in 23:28.3.
 
MOUNTAIN LIONS COMPETING AT NCAA SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL (6K PR TIMES)  
THE FIELD
  • The NCAA South Central Regional meet will consist of 31 women's cross country programs – 15 teams from the RMAC and 16 teams from the Lone Star Conference.  Saturday's race will feature eight teams ranked in the Top 25:
    • No. 1 Adams State University
    • No. 4 Colorado School of Mines
    • No. 6 UCCS
    • No. 10 Colorado State Pueblo
    • No. 13 Western Colorado University
    • No. 19 MSU Denver
    • No. 21 Dallas Baptist
    • No. 25 West Texas A&M
 
REGIONAL MEET HISTORY
  • UCCS has finished as high as third place at a regional meet in 2016, 2012, 2006 and 2002.  In the last three regional races, the Mountain Lions have placed fourth overall.  UCCS has recorded seven top-10 individual finishes at a regional meet, led by Shannon Payne's first place finish in 2008.
 
NCAA DIVISION II SELECTIONS
  • A total of 34 teams will be selected for the 2021 NCAA Division II National Championship Cross Country meet. The top three teams from each regional meet will automatically advance to the championship finals (24 teams). Ten at-large teams will be selected by the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Cross Country Committee using selection criteria. There is no limit to the number of at-large teams that may be selected from any given region.
 
USTFCCCA ALL-REGION AWARDS
  • The top 25 finishers at Saturday's race will earn 2021 All-USTFCCCA All-Region honors.  The All-Region teams will be announced on Monday, November 8, followed by the Regional Athletes and Coaches of the Year of the Year on Tuesday, Nov. 9.
 
WEATHER FORECAST
  • The weather forecast for Saturday's race in Lubbock, Texas will be mostly sunny skies and the temperate hovering 45 degrees around race time, with winds out of the west-southwest at 5mph.
 
2021 AWARD WINNERS  
NATIONAL RANKINGS
  • Each week the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announces Regional (Tuesday's) and National (Wednesday) rankings.
  • In the latest set of rankings (Oct. 27, Week 6), the Mountain Lions are ranked No. 6.
 
2021 USTFCCCA DII XC NATIONAL RANKINGS
 
  • Oct. 27 (Week 6)
  • No. 6 (South Central Ranking: No. 3)
  • Oct. 13 (Week 5)
  • No. 6 (South Central Ranking: No. 3)
  • Oct. 6 (Week 4)
  • No. 6 (South Central Ranking: No. 3)
  • Sept. 29 (Week 3)
  • No. 7 (South Central Ranking: No. 3)
  • Sept. 22 (Week 2)
  • No. 9 (South Central Ranking: No. 3)
  • Sept. 15 (Week 1)
  • No. 9 (South Central Ranking: No. 3)
  • Sept. 1 (Preseason)
  • No. 12 (South Central Ranking: No. 4)
 
UCCS UNDER HEAD COACH COREY KUBATZKY
  • Corey Kubatzky is in his seventh year with the UCCS cross country and track and field programs in 2021-22, serving as head coach for the women's cross country team as well as coaching the distance and middle distance women runners for indoor and outdoor track & field.
  • Kubatzky and the Mountain Lions won all three regular season meets in 2020, beginning with home wins at the UCCS Rust Buster and the UCCS XC Open, before besting all eight teams at the West Texas A&M Buffalo Stampede.  UCCS wrapped up the COVID-19 shortened season with a fifth place at the RMAC Championship meet, hosted by UCCS at Monument Valley Park, behind four All-RMAC performances: Layla Almasri (first team), Hannah Ellis (first team), Riley McGrath (second team) and Molly Weir (second team).  Academically, 10 Mountain Lions received RMAC All-Academic accolades: Layla Almasri, Hannah Ellis, Vanessa Roybal, Sarah Bassett, Natalie Church, Emily Gentry, Jenny Smith, Meg Super, Erika Timbang, and Molly Weir.
 
UPCOMING MEET
  • Teams and individuals that qualify for the 2021 NCAA Division II Championship meet will compete on Saturday, Nov. 20 at the Abbey Course in St. Leo, Fla.
 
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As a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs competes in 16 varsity sports in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics.
 
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