{"id":3845,"date":"2018-09-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2018-09-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:00:00","slug":"cross-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Out of the Gates with a Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Ian Gillen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a hard fought few weeks took the team to West Virginia and Blacksburg, our men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross-country teams are capitalizing on last year\u2019s strong finish to start their seasons off on the right foot. \u00a0Last season provided the teams with great promise and hope for the future, and the teams are still running hard in preparation for ODACs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The teams first traveled to West Virginia Tech on Sept. 7, where each team had great finishes. \u00a0Freshman <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hannah Koepfinger was the fastest of the female runners, finishing twelfth among all runners. \u00a0The Lady Maroons also had two runners in the top 25, with four runners finishing in the top 40. \u00a0On the men\u2019s side, the top runner saw an eighth overall finish, while two finished in the top 13, and four runners finished in the top 30. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fantastic start to the year was followed up a week later with a trip to Blacksburg to compete in the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational. \u00a0Each team finished second among Division III schools, and Chamberlain Zulauf finished first among D III runners, earning him ODAC Runner of the Week honors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team hopes to continue their great start next weekend when they travel to Lehigh University. \u00a0Two weeks later will be their last tune-up before ODACs, which takes place on Oct. 27.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Ian Gillen After a hard fought few weeks took the team to West Virginia and Blacksburg, our men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross-country teams are capitalizing on last year\u2019s strong finish to start their seasons off on the right foot. \u00a0Last season provided the teams with great promise and hope for the future, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}