{"id":5511,"date":"2013-10-04T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/cross-country-visits-lehigh-for-paul-short-invitational\/"},"modified":"2013-10-04T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:47:52","slug":"cross-country-visits-lehigh-for-paul-short-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/cross-country-visits-lehigh-for-paul-short-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Visits Lehigh For Paul Short Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cross Country Visits Lehigh For Paul Short Invitational<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Men\u2019s Course Map<\/span><\/a>
Women\u2019s Course Map<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

ALBANY, N.Y. \u2013<\/strong> The University at Albany men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country teams will travel to Pennsylvania this weekend to compete in Lehigh University\u2019s 40th<\/sup> Paul Short Invitational.\u00a0 The meet will be both teams\u2019 third of the year, having competed in the America East Pre-Conference meet and Iona College\u2019s Br. Doyle Meet of Champions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve actually never seen this course before,\u201d said head coach Matt Jones.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve heard from others that it can get muddy, but conditions are supposed to be good this weekend.\u00a0 Our plan is to arrive Friday and run the course for the first time that afternoon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s course is the first of the season the Danes will not visit again for another race, but features a higher level of competition than they have faced in their two meets so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really going to this meet for the competition, both individually and collectively,\u201d said Jones.\u00a0 \u201cThis meet will be our first really quality test.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

UAlbany will be competing in the event for the fifth time since 1999, and first since 2003.\u00a0 3,836 collegiate athletes from 290 schools are expected to descend upon Lehigh\u2019s campus to race this weekend, in addition to 2,117 high school athletes from 163 schools.\u00a0 92 unattached runners are scheduled to compete as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a learning experience for our younger athletes,\u201d said Jones, commenting on the size of the meet.\u00a0 \u201cBut we need to do it to be better later.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The men\u2019s and women\u2019s races are broken up into three sections.\u00a0 The fastest teams will race in the Gold section, the next fastest teams will race in the Brown, and any remaining teams will race in the White.\u00a0 Teams competing in these sections are limited to fielding ten athletes.\u00a0 The race also features an open section which has no limits on athlete participation per team.<\/span><\/p>\n

The men\u2019s team will compete in the 8K Brown race that starts at 12:15 p.m.\u00a0 In the field of 47 teams is Monmouth, ranked 14th<\/sup> in the Mid-Atlantic region, and Princeton, who is ranked first in the Mid-Atlantic and ninth nationally, but who will also be sending athletes to the Notre Dame Invitational on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think the men are appropriately placed,\u201d said Jones. \u00a0\u201cWe have some guys who can race near the front, but we need to see how close we are with our back end.\u00a0 The determination for success will be how we do in-conference, and the conference championship will be the culminating event of our efforts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The women\u2019s team is competing in the 6K Gold race, which will kick off at 11:45 a.m.\u00a0 The women are coming off a team victory at Iona\u2019s Meet of Champions two weeks ago, and are currently ranked 15th<\/sup> in the Northeast region.\u00a0 The women have already beaten four Northeast-ranked teams head-to-head this season, but Saturday\u2019s meet features by far the deepest field they have competed against.\u00a0 The Gold race features eight Northeast-ranked schools, setting up rematches with three of the four teams the Danes have defeated (Iona, Brown, and Vermont).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe women have hit a bit of a rough patch with injuries and illnesses recently, but we\u2019re still looking for quality races from our top healthy girls, said Jones.\u00a0 \u201cWe want to see how our front end competes against other Northeast runners, and we want to see how our back end is developing.\u00a0 The results of this race will help determine which section of the Pre-Nationals meet we will qualify for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the Northeast, the women\u2019s Gold field includes 21 regionally ranked schools from around the country representing the South, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, South Central, and Mountain regions.\u00a0 Additionally, among the field of 48 are five nationally ranked squads: Georgetown (6), defending champion Cornell (10), Villanova (12), Penn State (13), and West Virginia (29).<\/span><\/p>\n

Coach Jones said he was pleased with the way the team has been training.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur training has gone well.\u00a0 The men are progressing nicely.\u00a0 The women are a bit injured but I think we\u2019re in a good spot overall.\u00a0 The big thing now will be to convert the quality training we\u2019ve done into quality racing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\nThe Albany Student Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross Country Visits Lehigh For Paul Short Invitational Men\u2019s Course MapWomen\u2019s Course Map ALBANY, N.Y. \u2013 The University at Albany men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country teams will travel to Pennsylvania this weekend to compete in Lehigh University\u2019s 40th Paul Short Invitational.\u00a0 The meet will be both teams\u2019 third of the year, having competed in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[983],"tags":[1767,1900,2050,1924,2223,1862,2222],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albany-student-press","tag-country","tag-cross","tag-invitational","tag-lehigh","tag-paul","tag-short","tag-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}