Friday, September 28
South Bend, Ind.
1pm ET
Southern Miss
at
The Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational
Southern Miss XC on the Road at Notre Dame
9/27/2018 10:41:00 AM | Track & Field/Cross Country
The Golden Eagles head to South Bend for the Joe Piane Invitational.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The Southern Miss cross country team is headed to Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. for the Notre Dame Joe Piane Invitational on Friday.
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The team is included in the Blue Division race which will run the 5k course at 1pm. It is made up of 20 teams from 12 different conferences and across eight different NCAA Regions. Southern Miss is one of only two Conference USA teams in the entire meet, but is the lone conference member in their division. UTEP will be racing in the Gold Division.
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Quotables – Aaron Kindt
"So far this season, we have seen some great individual races from our group. Now as we get deeper into the year and into some of the bigger invitationals we are really focusing on our need to start putting together great team races."
"Notre Dame will be the most competitive regular-season race we've been in with this team. We have several top-25 teams and a dozen more regionally ranked teams in our race. For us to have a chance at success we will need a complete team effort this Friday."
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Covering Ground
By the end of this trip, the Southern Miss Cross Country program will have covered more than 2,887.8 miles this season. From Hattiesburg to Choctaw Trails in Clinton, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., and now to South Bend, Ind., the Golden Eagles have added up some mileage by van and plane.
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Ranked
The Golden Eagles stayed in the No. 9 spot in the South Regional rankings for the second-straight week. Southern Miss was ranked No. 10 in the preseason and week one polls.
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The Team
On the road will be 10 runners from the team. This includes seniors Madeleine Bell, Victoria Hoppe and Chloe Tedder, juniors Regen McGee, Theresa Harto, and Monika Gebarzewska. The sophomores, redshirt Emma Kate Holdbrooks and Kate Mattox will also travel, as will newcomers Lina May and junior transfer Sandra Szpott.
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Szpott, a Wyrzysk, Poland product, will be running in her second race as a Golden Eagle. She set a new personal best in the 5k at the Commodore Classic, finishing 12th with a time of 17:49.4.
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The team is included in the Blue Division race which will run the 5k course at 1pm. It is made up of 20 teams from 12 different conferences and across eight different NCAA Regions. Southern Miss is one of only two Conference USA teams in the entire meet, but is the lone conference member in their division. UTEP will be racing in the Gold Division.
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Quotables – Aaron Kindt
"So far this season, we have seen some great individual races from our group. Now as we get deeper into the year and into some of the bigger invitationals we are really focusing on our need to start putting together great team races."
"Notre Dame will be the most competitive regular-season race we've been in with this team. We have several top-25 teams and a dozen more regionally ranked teams in our race. For us to have a chance at success we will need a complete team effort this Friday."
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Covering Ground
By the end of this trip, the Southern Miss Cross Country program will have covered more than 2,887.8 miles this season. From Hattiesburg to Choctaw Trails in Clinton, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., and now to South Bend, Ind., the Golden Eagles have added up some mileage by van and plane.
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Ranked
The Golden Eagles stayed in the No. 9 spot in the South Regional rankings for the second-straight week. Southern Miss was ranked No. 10 in the preseason and week one polls.
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The Team
On the road will be 10 runners from the team. This includes seniors Madeleine Bell, Victoria Hoppe and Chloe Tedder, juniors Regen McGee, Theresa Harto, and Monika Gebarzewska. The sophomores, redshirt Emma Kate Holdbrooks and Kate Mattox will also travel, as will newcomers Lina May and junior transfer Sandra Szpott.
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Szpott, a Wyrzysk, Poland product, will be running in her second race as a Golden Eagle. She set a new personal best in the 5k at the Commodore Classic, finishing 12th with a time of 17:49.4.
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