Title bids by the Mustangs were denied by the UC Santa Barbara men and the UC Davis women Saturday morning at the Big West Cross Country Championships at UC Riverside.
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Hollander and Frias compete at NCAA championships
By Laura Hollander’s standards, anything but a top-10 finish is a bit out of the ordinary.
The sophomore cross-country runner finished 75th at the NCAA Championships Saturday, a far cry from her ninth-place finish a year ago. The top 40 runners are named All-Americans, meaning Hollander won’t receive the honor as she did in 2012.
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Hollander, Frias selected for cross-country national championships
After posting top-10 finishes at the NCAA West Regional this past weekend, Cal Poly cross-country runners sophomore Laura Hollander and senior Chris Frias were selected to compete at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. on Nov. 23.
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Hollander, Frias lead Cal Poly cross-country to top-10 finishes
With strong performances from both senior Chris Frias and sophomore Laura Hollander, the Cal Poly men’s and women’s cross-country teams both earned a top-10 finish at the NCAA West Regional in Sacramento, Calif. on Friday.
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Cross-country sweeps Big West titles
The Cal Poly men’s cross country team claimed its 13th Big West Conference title Saturday, while the women’s squad captured its fifth.
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‘I just run’: Davidson leads Cal Poly cross-country
There’s a Ford pickup truck parked 10 feet in front of him. Sean Davidson sits on an aluminum bench, his back against the yellow plastered walls of Mott Athletics Center.
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Frias leads track in NCAA prelims
As junior runner Chris Frias toed the line for last weekend’s 10,000-meter run at the Big West Conference Championships in Northridge, there was one thing on his mind.
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Cross country brings home the hardware
Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net Not one, but two Big West championship titles. A true freshman with All-American honors. Director of track and field/cross country, Mark Conover, and his two teams have done it again. “Any time you establish any form of consistency in sports at a high level, all the people involved need to […]
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Laura Hollander named All-American
Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net True freshman Laura Hollander was awarded a position on the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-American team following her ninth-place finish at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship on Saturday. During the Big West Conference Championship, Hollander raced in record time and was honored with […]
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Hollander set for national championship try
Mustang Daily Staff Report sports@mustangdaily.net Laura Hollander’s undefeated season was a dream in the making for the freshman. But Oregon senior and former Mission Prep high star Jordan Hasay spoiled that dream to some degree at the NCAA West Regional cross country championships on Friday. Hollander finished runner-up to Hasay at Seattle’s Jefferson Park Golf […]
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Men’s, women’s cross country teams sweep conference championships
Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams continued their dominant seasons with each finishing first place in the Big West Cross Country Championships at the UC Riverside Ag/Ops course on Saturday morning. True freshman Laura Hollander paced the field once again on the women’s side, covering the 6-kilometer course in a record-breaking 19 minutes, […]