NCAA Division I Pre-Nationals Invitational 2013Oct 16, 2013 by Isaac Wood
Pre-Nats Individual Women's Preview: The Lone Rangers and the Dynamic
Pre-Nats Individual Women's Preview: The Lone Rangers and the Dynamic
As we look at the Pre-Nats field from an individual standpoint, there are seemingly many talented athletes that fall into two categories. The first are the "lone rangers," who are a team's real deal front runner. The second category consists of "dynamic duos," who are two very good athletes that work off each other and make a nice 1-2 punch.
- Pre-Nationals Women's Team Preview
- PRs for Individuals of Note
Emma Bates (Boise State)
She has some serious motivation to roll this weekend after being surprised at the last minute of Dellinger and beaten by high schooler Alexa Efraimson. Bates is super talented and has some nice track PRs as well.
Although she has never made the NCAA Championships, that will be no problem for the Bronco. Bates is one of the toughest competitors in the NCAA and will prove that this weekend.
Laura Hollander (Cal Poly)
The “Diego Estrada” of the women’s side of NCAA Cross Country is Laura Hollander of Cal Poly. Similar to Estrada, Hollander loves to take things out from the gun and makes others beat her. As was the case at Wisconsin last season where she blew everyone away by taking the pace out hard and early, eventually no one could catch up to her. Since her 9th place finish at NCAAs in 2012, she has run a few decent track races and only one race this fall (on August 31st where she won by nearly 50 seconds). Will she be back in 2013 to punish the fields like she did last year? We will find out on Saturday.
Cally Macumber (Kentucky)
Macumber started her season off right by getting an individual win over a pretty good field at the Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Oklahoma—seemingly going right on with the script from 2012. Macumber was money last year in cross winning the Southeast Regional (beating Juliet Bottorff of Duke by four seconds) and placing 6th at NCAAs in Louisville.
The second best girl coming back from NCAAs last year, Macumber now has a target on her back. A loss to Ann Eason at Greater Louisville a couple weeks ago can be avenged this weekend as she will rub shoulders with Eason once more. An interesting stat is that Macumber also finished second last year at Greater Louisville, losing to Elvin Kibet of Arizona. If she can pull off the same finish to her season as she did last year, Macumber will be right in the thick of things at Pre-Nats in Terre Haute.
Darkhorse Individual - Ann Eason (EKU)
Flying onto the scene at a high level this season is Ann Eason of Eastern Kentucky. With solid track PRs of 9:24 and 16:06, she does not at first stand out as someone that is going to be good enough to win the individual title at a meet of this size, but do not sleep on Eason.
After a pretty good performance at Panorama Farms in her first race of the year, Eason finished 5th behind Balouris, Stites, Santisteban (also in this field) and Strehler of Virginia. She proved her legitimacy by beating All-Everything imaginable Cally Macumber of Kentucky at the Greater Louisville Classic a few weeks ago.
Maybe it was being able to run in her home state and in front of the home crowd that enabled her to run so well, but either way, beating Macumber head-to-head automatically gives you the chops to be able to compete with the who’s who in the NCAA.
The Dynamic Duos
Colleen Quigley and Hannah Walker (Florida State)
The funniest dynamic duo goes to Quigley and Walker of FSU—mostly over height. Quigley is quite tall and Hannah Walker is barely 5’0 (that would be a basketball roster 5’0”). Regardless of their difference in size, they make up a nasty 1-2 punch that lead the Seminoles into war.
Aisling Cuffe and Jessica Tonn (Stanford)
The Foot Locker Champion of yesteryear Aisling Cuffe is now being relied upon as a leader and front runner for the Stanford Cardinal and alongside Jessica Tonn, they make up what is a ridiculously good front two. With similar 3k PRs and also comparable ability on the XC course, with these girls up front, Stanford will always be in the mix.
Elaina Balouris and Emily Stites (William and Mary)
Maybe the unsung heroes of the mid-major schools in NCAA XC, Balouris and Stites are absolute studs on the cross country course and should be the fear of every big time university in the country. Balouris and Stites, having finished 13th and 26th at NCAAs in 2012, respectively, are the best 1-2 punch in the field just from purely looking at results from last year. Stites a sub-16 5k girl and Balouris a pure distance runner; William and Mary, much like Stanford, are a contender (on some level) at Pre-Nats this weekend solely because of the nasty low-sticks they have in this pair.
PRs for Individuals of Note
Alabama-Birmingham
Eli Kirk- 9:23 3k, 15:59 5k- 18th Notre Dame,
Albany
Silvia Del Fava - 10th Paul Short, 16:46 5k, 35:26 10k, Brittney Lane- 9:41 3k, 16:21 5k, 34:26 10k
Arkansas State
Kristina Aubert - 9:43 3k, 16:44 5k, 34:53 5k
Baylor
Rachel Johnson - 14th Notre Dame, 9:28 3k, 16:33 5k, Maggie Montoya- 41st Notre Dame, 10:36 3200m (HS), 4:52 1600m (HS)
Boise State
Emma Bates - 9:13 3k, 15:50 5k, 33:37 10k, 3rd NCAA 10k Outdoors
Marisa Howard - 10:01 3k Steeple, 16:40 5k
Butler
Mara Olson - 4th Griak Invite, 9:29 3k, 16:08 5k
Katie Clark- 7th Griak Invite, 15:43 5k, 33:36 10k
Katie Good - 9:43 3k, 16:32 5k, 16th Griak Invite
Cal Poly
Laura Hollander- 15:53 5k, 9th NCAA XC ‘12
California
Kelsey Santisteban - 9:17 3k, 15:50 5k, 4th Panorama Farms Invite, Two Wins
Central Michigan
Krista Parks - 16:44 5k
Colorado
Shalaya Kipp - 9:18 3k, 16:00 5k, 9:43 3k Steeple, Olympian, WC Qualifier
Carrie Verdon - 16:14 5k, 20th World Jr. XC ‘12
Colorado State
Whitney Henderson - 16:38 5k
Eastern Kentucky
Ann Eason - 9:24 3k, 16:06 5k, 1st Greater Louisville Classic
Eastern Michigan
Victoria Voronko - 9:23 3k, 16:22 5k, 10:08 3k Steeple, 17:21 (B Race Notre Dame good for 13th in “A” Race)
Florida State
Colleen Quigley - 12th NCAA XC ’12, 2nd Notre Dame Invite, 4:15 1500m, 9:38 3k Steeple 15:58 5k
Hannah Walker - 9:21 3k, 15:48 5k, 33:09 10k, 4th Notre Dame Invite
Georgetown
Katrina Coogan - 9:04 3k, 15:50 5k, 7th NCAA Indoor 3k
Samantha Nadel - 9:25 3k, 16:14 5k
Madeline Chambers - 9:09 3k, 16:10 5k
Georgia Tech
Katie Townsend - 16:57 5k, 35:01 10k
Illinois
Alyssa Schneider - 9:39 3k, 16:21 5k, 17th Notre Dame
Illinois State
Rachael Brewer - 16:41 5k, 34:29 10k
Indiana
Samantha Ginther - 9:20 3k, 16:15 5k, 10:18 3k Stpl, Invid. Qualif. NCAA XC ‘11
Iona
Maya Rehberg - 9:17 3k, 16:30 5k, 10:00 3k Steeple
Kate Avery - 15:35 5k, 33:27 10k, 4th Paul Short
Kansas State
Martina Tresch - 9:24 3k, 16:33 5k, 10:03 3k Steeple
Laura Galvan - 45th NCAA XC ’12
Kentucky
Cally Macumber - 8:59 3k, 16:04 5k, 34:44 10k, 6th NCAA XC ’12
Allison Peare - 4:18 1500m
Lamar
Leigh Lattimore - 9:40 3k, 16:49 5k, 5th Notre Dame
Louise Webb - 10:10 3k Steeple
Michigan
Taylor Pogue - 9:37 3k, 16:22 5k, 34:48 10k, 1st Rim Rock
Brook Handler - 9:38 3k, 2:07 800m, 4:22 1500m, 2nd Rim Rock, 75th NCAA XC ’12
Erin Finn - 16:17 5k, 4:46 1 Mile
Shannon Osika - 9:21 3k, 16:35 5k, 8th Great Lakes XC Regional ‘12
Mississippi
Michaela Quinn - 25th World Jr. XC Champs ’12
Missouri-KC
Courtney Frerichs - 16:22 5k, 9:55 3k Steeple, 1st Notre Dame Invite Open
Ohio
Juli Accurso - 9:21 3k, 15:58 5k, 33:52 10k, 38th NCAA XC ‘12
Ohio State
Katie Borchers – 23rd Notre Dame Invite ’13
Michelle Thomas - 16:42 5k, 34:56 10k
Oklahoma State
Monika Juodeskaite - 9:10 3k, 16:17 5k, 2nd Cowboy Jamboree 2013
Natalja Piliusina - 2:02 800m, 4:09 1500m, 1500m Nat’l Champ Outdoor ’13, 50th NCAA XC ‘12
Oregon
Megan Patrignelli - 10:09 3k Steeple, 6th Dellinger Invite, 6th Battle in Beantown
Lindsay Crevoiserat - 9:09 3k, 15:58 5k
Allie Woodward - 16:08 5k, 32:56 10k, 44th NCAA XC ‘12
Penn State
Tori Perri - 47th NCAA XC ’12
Rebekka Simko - 71st NCAA XC ’12 (both yet to run in 2013)
Princeton
Megan Curham - 12th Notre Dame Invite, 10:25 3200m (HS)
Emily de la Bruyere - 9:31 3k, 12th Mid Atlantic Regional XC ‘12
South Carolina
Kayla Lampe - 16:19 5k, 33:43 10k
Southern Methodist
Karoline Skatteboe - 9:32 3k, 16:57 5k, 34:47 10k
Stanford
Aisling Cuffe - 9:07 3k, 16:15 5k, 21st NCAA XC ’12
Jessica Tonn - 9:10 3k, 15:54 5k, 34:41 10k, 43rd NCAA XC ‘12
Villanova
Emily Lipari - 4:15 1500m, 9:08 3k, 25th NCAA XC ’12
Nicky Akande - 4:17 1500m, 9:39 3k, 8th Paul Short
Virginia
Barbara Strehler - 16:07 5k, 34:39 10k
West Virginia
Allison Lasnicki - 15:59 5k, 33:36 10k,
William and Mary
Elaina Balouris - 9:34 3k, 16:03 5k, 33:43 10k, 1st Panorama Farms, 13th NCAA XC ’12
Emily Stites - 15:54 5k, 3rd Panorama Farms, 26th NCAA XC ‘12
Youngstown State
Samantha Hamilton - 9:28 3k, 16:22 5k, 6th Notre Dame Invite
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- Pre-Nationals Women's Team Preview
- PRs for Individuals of Note
Emma Bates (Boise State)She has some serious motivation to roll this weekend after being surprised at the last minute of Dellinger and beaten by high schooler Alexa Efraimson. Bates is super talented and has some nice track PRs as well.
Although she has never made the NCAA Championships, that will be no problem for the Bronco. Bates is one of the toughest competitors in the NCAA and will prove that this weekend.
Laura Hollander (Cal Poly)The “Diego Estrada” of the women’s side of NCAA Cross Country is Laura Hollander of Cal Poly. Similar to Estrada, Hollander loves to take things out from the gun and makes others beat her. As was the case at Wisconsin last season where she blew everyone away by taking the pace out hard and early, eventually no one could catch up to her. Since her 9th place finish at NCAAs in 2012, she has run a few decent track races and only one race this fall (on August 31st where she won by nearly 50 seconds). Will she be back in 2013 to punish the fields like she did last year? We will find out on Saturday.
Cally Macumber (Kentucky)Macumber started her season off right by getting an individual win over a pretty good field at the Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Oklahoma—seemingly going right on with the script from 2012. Macumber was money last year in cross winning the Southeast Regional (beating Juliet Bottorff of Duke by four seconds) and placing 6th at NCAAs in Louisville.
The second best girl coming back from NCAAs last year, Macumber now has a target on her back. A loss to Ann Eason at Greater Louisville a couple weeks ago can be avenged this weekend as she will rub shoulders with Eason once more. An interesting stat is that Macumber also finished second last year at Greater Louisville, losing to Elvin Kibet of Arizona. If she can pull off the same finish to her season as she did last year, Macumber will be right in the thick of things at Pre-Nats in Terre Haute.
Darkhorse Individual - Ann Eason (EKU)
Flying onto the scene at a high level this season is Ann Eason of Eastern Kentucky. With solid track PRs of 9:24 and 16:06, she does not at first stand out as someone that is going to be good enough to win the individual title at a meet of this size, but do not sleep on Eason.
After a pretty good performance at Panorama Farms in her first race of the year, Eason finished 5th behind Balouris, Stites, Santisteban (also in this field) and Strehler of Virginia. She proved her legitimacy by beating All-Everything imaginable Cally Macumber of Kentucky at the Greater Louisville Classic a few weeks ago.
Maybe it was being able to run in her home state and in front of the home crowd that enabled her to run so well, but either way, beating Macumber head-to-head automatically gives you the chops to be able to compete with the who’s who in the NCAA.
The Dynamic Duos
Colleen Quigley and Hannah Walker (Florida State)
The funniest dynamic duo goes to Quigley and Walker of FSU—mostly over height. Quigley is quite tall and Hannah Walker is barely 5’0 (that would be a basketball roster 5’0”). Regardless of their difference in size, they make up a nasty 1-2 punch that lead the Seminoles into war.
Aisling Cuffe and Jessica Tonn (Stanford)
The Foot Locker Champion of yesteryear Aisling Cuffe is now being relied upon as a leader and front runner for the Stanford Cardinal and alongside Jessica Tonn, they make up what is a ridiculously good front two. With similar 3k PRs and also comparable ability on the XC course, with these girls up front, Stanford will always be in the mix.
Elaina Balouris and Emily Stites (William and Mary)
Maybe the unsung heroes of the mid-major schools in NCAA XC, Balouris and Stites are absolute studs on the cross country course and should be the fear of every big time university in the country. Balouris and Stites, having finished 13th and 26th at NCAAs in 2012, respectively, are the best 1-2 punch in the field just from purely looking at results from last year. Stites a sub-16 5k girl and Balouris a pure distance runner; William and Mary, much like Stanford, are a contender (on some level) at Pre-Nats this weekend solely because of the nasty low-sticks they have in this pair.
PRs for Individuals of Note
Alabama-Birmingham
Eli Kirk- 9:23 3k, 15:59 5k- 18th Notre Dame,
Albany
Silvia Del Fava - 10th Paul Short, 16:46 5k, 35:26 10k, Brittney Lane- 9:41 3k, 16:21 5k, 34:26 10k
Arkansas State
Kristina Aubert - 9:43 3k, 16:44 5k, 34:53 5k
Baylor
Rachel Johnson - 14th Notre Dame, 9:28 3k, 16:33 5k, Maggie Montoya- 41st Notre Dame, 10:36 3200m (HS), 4:52 1600m (HS)
Boise State
Emma Bates - 9:13 3k, 15:50 5k, 33:37 10k, 3rd NCAA 10k Outdoors
Marisa Howard - 10:01 3k Steeple, 16:40 5k
Butler
Mara Olson - 4th Griak Invite, 9:29 3k, 16:08 5k
Katie Clark- 7th Griak Invite, 15:43 5k, 33:36 10k
Katie Good - 9:43 3k, 16:32 5k, 16th Griak Invite
Cal Poly
Laura Hollander- 15:53 5k, 9th NCAA XC ‘12
California
Kelsey Santisteban - 9:17 3k, 15:50 5k, 4th Panorama Farms Invite, Two Wins
Central Michigan
Krista Parks - 16:44 5k
Colorado
Shalaya Kipp - 9:18 3k, 16:00 5k, 9:43 3k Steeple, Olympian, WC Qualifier
Carrie Verdon - 16:14 5k, 20th World Jr. XC ‘12
Colorado State
Whitney Henderson - 16:38 5k
Eastern Kentucky
Ann Eason - 9:24 3k, 16:06 5k, 1st Greater Louisville Classic
Eastern Michigan
Victoria Voronko - 9:23 3k, 16:22 5k, 10:08 3k Steeple, 17:21 (B Race Notre Dame good for 13th in “A” Race)
Florida State
Colleen Quigley - 12th NCAA XC ’12, 2nd Notre Dame Invite, 4:15 1500m, 9:38 3k Steeple 15:58 5k
Hannah Walker - 9:21 3k, 15:48 5k, 33:09 10k, 4th Notre Dame Invite
Georgetown
Katrina Coogan - 9:04 3k, 15:50 5k, 7th NCAA Indoor 3k
Samantha Nadel - 9:25 3k, 16:14 5k
Madeline Chambers - 9:09 3k, 16:10 5k
Georgia Tech
Katie Townsend - 16:57 5k, 35:01 10k
Illinois
Alyssa Schneider - 9:39 3k, 16:21 5k, 17th Notre Dame
Illinois State
Rachael Brewer - 16:41 5k, 34:29 10k
Indiana
Samantha Ginther - 9:20 3k, 16:15 5k, 10:18 3k Stpl, Invid. Qualif. NCAA XC ‘11
Iona
Maya Rehberg - 9:17 3k, 16:30 5k, 10:00 3k Steeple
Kate Avery - 15:35 5k, 33:27 10k, 4th Paul Short
Kansas State
Martina Tresch - 9:24 3k, 16:33 5k, 10:03 3k Steeple
Laura Galvan - 45th NCAA XC ’12
Kentucky
Cally Macumber - 8:59 3k, 16:04 5k, 34:44 10k, 6th NCAA XC ’12
Allison Peare - 4:18 1500m
Lamar
Leigh Lattimore - 9:40 3k, 16:49 5k, 5th Notre Dame
Louise Webb - 10:10 3k Steeple
Michigan
Taylor Pogue - 9:37 3k, 16:22 5k, 34:48 10k, 1st Rim Rock
Brook Handler - 9:38 3k, 2:07 800m, 4:22 1500m, 2nd Rim Rock, 75th NCAA XC ’12
Erin Finn - 16:17 5k, 4:46 1 Mile
Shannon Osika - 9:21 3k, 16:35 5k, 8th Great Lakes XC Regional ‘12
Mississippi
Michaela Quinn - 25th World Jr. XC Champs ’12
Missouri-KC
Courtney Frerichs - 16:22 5k, 9:55 3k Steeple, 1st Notre Dame Invite Open
Ohio
Juli Accurso - 9:21 3k, 15:58 5k, 33:52 10k, 38th NCAA XC ‘12
Ohio State
Katie Borchers – 23rd Notre Dame Invite ’13
Michelle Thomas - 16:42 5k, 34:56 10k
Oklahoma State
Monika Juodeskaite - 9:10 3k, 16:17 5k, 2nd Cowboy Jamboree 2013
Natalja Piliusina - 2:02 800m, 4:09 1500m, 1500m Nat’l Champ Outdoor ’13, 50th NCAA XC ‘12
Oregon
Megan Patrignelli - 10:09 3k Steeple, 6th Dellinger Invite, 6th Battle in Beantown
Lindsay Crevoiserat - 9:09 3k, 15:58 5k
Allie Woodward - 16:08 5k, 32:56 10k, 44th NCAA XC ‘12
Penn State
Tori Perri - 47th NCAA XC ’12
Rebekka Simko - 71st NCAA XC ’12 (both yet to run in 2013)
Princeton
Megan Curham - 12th Notre Dame Invite, 10:25 3200m (HS)
Emily de la Bruyere - 9:31 3k, 12th Mid Atlantic Regional XC ‘12
South Carolina
Kayla Lampe - 16:19 5k, 33:43 10k
Southern Methodist
Karoline Skatteboe - 9:32 3k, 16:57 5k, 34:47 10k
Stanford
Aisling Cuffe - 9:07 3k, 16:15 5k, 21st NCAA XC ’12
Jessica Tonn - 9:10 3k, 15:54 5k, 34:41 10k, 43rd NCAA XC ‘12
Villanova
Emily Lipari - 4:15 1500m, 9:08 3k, 25th NCAA XC ’12
Nicky Akande - 4:17 1500m, 9:39 3k, 8th Paul Short
Virginia
Barbara Strehler - 16:07 5k, 34:39 10k
West Virginia
Allison Lasnicki - 15:59 5k, 33:36 10k,
William and Mary
Elaina Balouris - 9:34 3k, 16:03 5k, 33:43 10k, 1st Panorama Farms, 13th NCAA XC ’12
Emily Stites - 15:54 5k, 3rd Panorama Farms, 26th NCAA XC ‘12
Youngstown State
Samantha Hamilton - 9:28 3k, 16:22 5k, 6th Notre Dame Invite
Pre Nats will be streamed LIVE this Saturday starting at 11a.m. EDT. Don't miss any of the action--signing up is as easy as clicking below: