Marshall University Athletics
Herd Cross Country Prepares for Second Meet
9/18/2015 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall's cross country team will participate in its second meet of the season at the Commodore Classic, held in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday.
Meet results and a recap will be available on Herdzone.com following the meet.
HAVE YOU HERD?
The Thundering Herd is coming off of a strong first meet at the Early Bird Invite held in Evansville, Ind. coming in third out of four teams. Every member of the men's team finished the event in the top 20. Freshmen in particular stood tall for the Herd, with Nickolas Schmidt (Davison, Mich.) finishing in 11th (26:55.9) and Daniel Green (Mercersburg, Pa.) finishing in 12th (26:59.3).
Members of the Women's team also found some success, with freshman Adriana Cook (Coal City, W. Va.) finishing 13th (19:20.5). Junior Andrea Porter (Pt. Pleasant, W. Va.) finished in 15th place (19:28.5) and rounding out the top 20 for the Herd was Tori Dent (18th, 20:04.7) and Alexandria Phares (20th, 20:30.7).
CALEB'S CORNER
Assistant Coach Caleb Bowen on the meet:
"This is going to be a really good meet for both the men and women. We will be racing against 23 teams from the SEC, BIG 10, ACC, AAC, Conference USA, and a few other Division I conferences."
"This meet will be a really good opportunity for everyone to race against really good competition on a challenging course. We are looking for five guys and five girls to step up and compete with the best this weekend. If we can do that, we will be in good shape moving forward."
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