by Suzanne Jackson<\/p>\n
To kick off the season the Roanoke College men\u2019s cross country team won the 2022 EMU Heritage Cross Country Invitational this past weekend. The women\u2019s cross country team came in third. Seniors Cooper Neeble and Chamberlain Zulauf finished 2nd and 3rd overall and led the men\u2019s team. Junior Matt Garis, senior Josh Fretwell, freshman RJ Birdsall, and senior Peter Smith came in the top twelve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI believe that team performed wonderfully for their first meet,\u201d said junior Matt Garis. \u201cIt was an excellent showing of what we\u2019re capable of and it provides a good launch pad for us all to improve on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country teams are full of athletes encouraging one another to constantly better themselves and their teammates. \u201cI believe we have the makings of a historic team and I know we all strive to achieve beyond what we think is possible,\u201d said Garis. \u201cCross country has such a great group of athletes and I believe everyone works together no matter the team to better themselves and others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The women\u2019s cross-country team came in 3rd overall and senior Lauren Brown came in first place for the Maroons with her 9th place finish. \u201cI think the girls\u2019 team did pretty well given the fact that our team is so young,\u201d said Brown. \u201cWe had a lot of girls out sick, and this was the freshman girls first collegiate race.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Maroon\u2019s biggest competitor in the ODAC is the Lynchburg Hornets. The rivalry between the two schools has gone on for years but the team is hopeful for an ODAC title this year. \u201cMy goal this season is to finish higher in the ODAC and to just have fun,\u201d said Brown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country team will host the Rooney Invitational on Friday at Greenhill Park in Salem. Both teams will travel to Shenandoah University to compete in the Hornet Harrier Invitational on Sept. 24.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Suzanne Jackson To kick off the season the Roanoke College men\u2019s cross country team won the 2022 EMU Heritage Cross Country Invitational this past weekend. The women\u2019s cross country team came in third. Seniors Cooper Neeble and Chamberlain Zulauf finished 2nd and 3rd overall and led the men\u2019s team. Junior Matt Garis, senior Josh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6808,"comment_status":"closed","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":[23],"class_list":["post-6807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807","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=6807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}