UF cross country giving freshmen the spotlight
By JONATHAN CZUPRYN< | Sep. 8, 2011A week after a pair of newcomers fueled the Gators cross country teams to season-opening wins, the rest of the freshman class is looking to get in on the action.
A week after a pair of newcomers fueled the Gators cross country teams to season-opening wins, the rest of the freshman class is looking to get in on the action.
After an offseason filled with both anticipated and unexpected change, coach Todd Morgan knew he needed to challenge his runners as soon as they hit campus.
Dumisane Hlaselo’s first weeks at the University of Florida can be best described as a culture shock.
For the past two races of Florida’s season, everything seemed to go right.
Heading into today’s national championship race, Genevieve LaCaze knows the Gators will have to lean on more than a strong performance from their top-three runners to capture their first NCAA title.
Florida’s cross country teams kept two streaks alive Saturday morning at the NCAA South Region Championships: one the program will celebrate on the bus ride home from Hoover, Ala., and one to think about until next year.
Florida’s cross country teams kept two streaks alive Saturday morning at the NCAA South Region Championships. One the program will celebrate on the bus ride home from Hoover, Ala., and one to think about until next year.
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Arkansas had the UF women’s cross country team beat with 400 meters to go.
Coming off its worst performance of the season two weeks ago at Pre-Nationals, UF’s women’s cross country team has found confidence in finally facing some familiar competition.
Todd Morgan can’t explain what happened to his program at Saturday’s Pre-National Invitational.
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Cross country running is not Dumisane Hlaselo’s typical style of race. But the South African track star still competes in it for the Gators for one reason: to make his country’s Olympic team.
UF’s cross country teams traveled to Tallahassee on Friday to compete in a race. FSU turned it into a training session.
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When the UF men’s and women’s cross country teams compete at the FSU Invitational today they will do so without top talent.
One second was all senior Charlotte Browning needed to take home first place in her first race of the season.
One second was all UF women’s cross country senior Charlotte Browning needed to take home first place in her first race of the season.
A string of old injuries and recent sickness will prevent the UF men and women’s cross country teams from being full-strength this Saturday as they take on a loaded field of 14 ranked teams at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational.
As Genevieve LaCaze made her way up the last hill of the women’s 5K race Saturday she could feel her second Mountain Dew Invitational win coming.