Long Beach State University Athletics
Women's Cross Country Set To Run At Titan Invitational
10/23/2015 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
2015 LONG BEACH STATE CROSS COUNTRY
Meet No. 4 (Women)
at Titan Invitational
Hosted by Cal State Fullerton
Friday, Oct. 23, 2015
Titan Sports Complex
Fullerton, Calif.
SCHEDULE
Women's 5K - 4:45 p.m. (PST)
FIRST RUN
The Long Beach State women's cross country team makes the short drive to Orange County for the Titan Invitational on Friday (Oct. 23) hosted by Cal State Fullerton. The women's 5,000-meter race is scheduled to begin at 4:45 p.m. at the Titan Sports Complex.
THE COURSE
The course on the campus of Cal State Fullerton starts and finishes at the Titan Track Complex. The course loops around the grass fields, and continues toward the concrete and asphalt pathways around the Sports Complex. The surface consists of approximately 30% grass and 70% concrete and asphalt.
TITAN FIELD
Competing alongside the Beach will be teams from Cal State Fullerton, Loyola Marymount, UC Santa Barbara and UCLA as well as additional non Division I teams.
LAST TIME OUT
The 49er women's team is coming off from a fifth-place finish at last week's eight-team Highlander Invitational at UC Riverside. LBSU scored 105 points and were led by junior Kathleen Dunne who placed fifth with a 5K time of 17:43.58.
49ERS TAKE NINTH AT UC RIVERSIDE INVITE
The women's team finished in ninth-place (15 teams) at the UC Riverside Invitational back on Sept. 12. The Beach rounded up 255 points as junior Kathleen Dunne was the top runner for the 49ers, placing 17th with a 6K time of 21:30.3.
BEACH OPENS SEASON IN IRVINE
LBSU started off the 2015 campaign at the season opening adidas/UC Irvine Invitational where the men's team finished in second (13 teams) with 35 points and the women placed eighth (15 teams) with 194 points. Redshirt senior Tim Bergstrom led the way for the 49ers, finishing in second with an 8K time of 25:22.45, while junior Kathleen Dunne was the top runner for the women with an 5K mark of 18:28.50.
49ERS WELCOME GILLESPIE AS ASSISTANT COACH
Former University of Arkansas standout Kristen Gillespie enters her first year at the Beach as an assistant coach for the 49ers. A 2013 graduate from Arkansas, Gillespie was a seven-time All-American for the Razorbacks. She was also named the 2012 Southeastern Conference Indoor Runner of the Year and SEC Cross-Country Runner of the Year for 2011.
BIG WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS RETURNS TO RIVERSIDE
For the second consecutive year and ninth overall, the Big West Conference Championships return to UC Riverside's Agricultural Operations Course that is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Oct. 31.
WEST REGIONAL HEADS TO SEATTLE
This year's NCAA West Regional heads to Emerald City and to Jefferson Park Golf Club as the University of Washington will serve as hosts. The NCAA West Regional will be one of nine regionals around the country. Eighteen teams and 36 individuals will advance automatically to the NCAA Championships in Louisville, Ky. Thirteen teams and two individuals will be chosen by an NCAA subcommittee for at-large selections. The top 25 runners in each race receive All-Region recognition.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Both men's and women's teams return to action on Saturday, Oct. 31 for the Big West Conference Championships at UC Riverside's Agricultural Operations Course in Riverside.
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