Friday, September 28
South Bend, Ind.
1pm ET
Southern Miss
at
The Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational
Southern Miss XC Races Strong at Notre Dame
9/28/2018 2:04:00 PM | Track & Field/Cross Country
Golden Eagles fight to the finish at the Notre Dame Joe Piane Invitational.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Southern Miss Cross Country team finished 12th at the Notre Dame Joe Piane Invitational with a point total of 303.
The Golden Eagles finished ahead of Dayton, Temple, LSU, California, Central Michigan, Baylor and Oklahoma.
The runners for Southern Miss finished with a total time of 1:29:45 in the 5k Blue Division race with an average time of 17:57. Sandra Szpott was at the front for USM, finishing 32nd with a time of 17:32.33.
Several runners ran alongside teammates, including Kate Mattox and Emma Kate Holdbrooks, Lina May and Theresa Harto, and finally, Madeleine Bell and Victoria Hoppe. Mattox and Holdbrooks finished 58th and 59th, with only seconds between them. Monika Gebarzewska finished 73rd with a time of 18:07.93. Regen McGee finished in 87th at 18:15.23. May and Harto followed suit of Mattox and Holdbrooks, finishing only 10 seconds apart in the 116 and 117 spots. Bell and Hoppe continued the trend coming in at 142 and 143.
Quotable – Aaron Kindt
"We had a really solid team day today; a lot of good things happened within the group. Our focus for this race was on having a good team group race, staying together, and we did that. Sandra Szpott had a really good day with a new personal record. She ran a high caliber race at the front. Emma Kate Holdbrooks has had an awesome season so far and she had a new personal best as well. What she's done in practice all year she did today, and it's great to have her back feeling good and at the front. She's a big part of what we'll do this year. We're still trying to get Kate Mattox back in her rhythm but she's only going to keep getting better and we got a nice, solid performance from her today. Everyone ran gutsy, hard races and we finished with a great team day. It's another step forward but we have a lot left in front of us and a lot of work left to do to get where we want to be as a team. They grinded away to get where they finished today and I'm proud of this team."
Noteworthy
The Golden Eagles finished ahead of Dayton, Temple, LSU, California, Central Michigan, Baylor and Oklahoma.
The runners for Southern Miss finished with a total time of 1:29:45 in the 5k Blue Division race with an average time of 17:57. Sandra Szpott was at the front for USM, finishing 32nd with a time of 17:32.33.
Several runners ran alongside teammates, including Kate Mattox and Emma Kate Holdbrooks, Lina May and Theresa Harto, and finally, Madeleine Bell and Victoria Hoppe. Mattox and Holdbrooks finished 58th and 59th, with only seconds between them. Monika Gebarzewska finished 73rd with a time of 18:07.93. Regen McGee finished in 87th at 18:15.23. May and Harto followed suit of Mattox and Holdbrooks, finishing only 10 seconds apart in the 116 and 117 spots. Bell and Hoppe continued the trend coming in at 142 and 143.
Quotable – Aaron Kindt
"We had a really solid team day today; a lot of good things happened within the group. Our focus for this race was on having a good team group race, staying together, and we did that. Sandra Szpott had a really good day with a new personal record. She ran a high caliber race at the front. Emma Kate Holdbrooks has had an awesome season so far and she had a new personal best as well. What she's done in practice all year she did today, and it's great to have her back feeling good and at the front. She's a big part of what we'll do this year. We're still trying to get Kate Mattox back in her rhythm but she's only going to keep getting better and we got a nice, solid performance from her today. Everyone ran gutsy, hard races and we finished with a great team day. It's another step forward but we have a lot left in front of us and a lot of work left to do to get where we want to be as a team. They grinded away to get where they finished today and I'm proud of this team."
Noteworthy
- New PBs for Sandra Szpott and Emma Kate Holdbrooks
- Placed ahead of SEC power LSU and Big 12's Baylor and Oklahoma
- The team had a new best average time at 17:57 and new best total time at 1:29:45
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