2009 NIRCA Cross Country National Championships Results

Posted by: Jade Schmitt & Jeremy Berg
7:00 pm, Monday, November 16, 2009

Congrats to all who competed at the NIRCA National Championships in Ann Arbor, MI this weekend. Our Men's A squad took home the National Title for the second year in a row, while the B squad demonstrated the meaning of the word dominance, going 1-4 and scoring 19 points, just 4 short of a perfect score, and the Women's team improved to 4th place this year, just 12 joints away from a trophy. We had 3 first team NIRCA All-Americans and 2 second teamers on the men's side, plus one first team NIRCA All-American on the women's side.

Open 5k Results:
Joe Binder 16:41
Jim Reardon 17:59

Women's 6k Results:
Sarah McCall 23:12.2
Jade Schmitt 24:21.4
Lindsey Carlson 24:28.7
Laura Platner 24:32.7
Karin Rasmussen 24:47.5
Lauren Moore 25:08.3
Nicole Kornder 25:17.2
Claire Lidester 25:19.1
Taylor Heinselman 25:36.8
Katie Kelly 25:47.2
Lauren Braun 27:29.9
Brittany Farrell 27:47.3

Men's "A" 8k Results:
Nick Limoni 25:10.9
Bryan Barker 25:52.1
Ben Garbe 25:57.8
John Prusynski 26:53.1
Ben Carr 27:07.2
Tyler Youngquist 27:21.5
Jeremy Berg 27:24.2
Isaac Newman 27:34.6
Kyle Hall 27:55.1

Men's "B" 8k Results
River Karl 27:00.9
Adam Zais 27:28.0
Sam Keepman 27:34.3
Jake Thorson 27:48.2
Nate Haggerty 28:08.5
Evan Joyce 28:13.3
JC Jesmok 28:31.5
Neal Kivi 28:40.0
Ben Hoegh 28:52.4
Joe Dewitt 28:54.5
Peter Holmes 28:58.5
Brian Atkinson 29:01.9
Jeff Schacherl 29:06.7
Nick Burant 29:09.6
Evan Mast 29:11.6
Andy Kump 29:24.6
Trent Evans 29:26.1
Matt Walker 29:30.6
Scott Klasek 29:33.7
David Pathakjee 30:27.1
Andy Lang 30:40.0

Full results can be found here.


Wisconsin Track Club Update: Thanksgiving Edition!

Posted by: Jeremy Berg
3:45 pm, Thursday, November 26, 2009

I hope your all enjoying your Thanksgivings and a short break from classes. A week ago Wednesday the WTC held it's November meeting to wrap up the cross country season and turn our attention towards the upcoming indoor and outdoor track seasons, as well as club elections in December.

After getting input from club members over the past few weeks, and at the meeting last week, I think we're going to shoot for a little bit more "team unity" this track season than we have in the past. We'll plan on having the entire team meet briefly for a few minutes by the track before each group goes their separate way to start their workouts.

We will decide on exactly what time to meet at the December meeting, but I would like to get feedback beforehand from active club members to know what time everyone would prefer (e.g. 5:15, 5:30, 5:45, etc.). If you plan on attending practice regularly this winter and spring, please go to the following link and fill out the one question survey indicating your preferred times. Note that workouts for the distance crew will shift to Mondays and Wednesday as opposed to the Tuesdays and Thursdays typical of the Cross Country Season.

Click here to take the survey.

Additionally, there has been a lot of chatter at practices this semester about the desire for a new singlet design. As we are essentially out of singlets and need to reorder, this marks a perfect time to make a switch. If you have an idea or design for a new singlet, please send it to me, and we will consider all submitted designs at the December meeting and vote for which one we want (or to keep the old design, if that is what most people would prefer). Note that we cannot use the "motion W" (I have already looked into it), but we could use the Bucky's head logo.

As mentioned above, the December meeting will be our annual club elections. This meeting will take place at 7:15pm on Wednesday December 9th. The positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer are up for reelection every year. If you are interested in running for one of these positions please let me know by next Wednesday, December 2nd. Our current Treasurer, Gavin Hussey, will be studying abroad during the spring semester, so, while the other three elected officers are all interested in retaining their positions (last I heard) and those spots will remain filled even if there are no challengers, we will need someone to take over as Treasurer. We also need people to step up as meet entry coordinator and webmaster, among others, which are appointed positions, so if you're interested in getting more involved in making the WTC work, I'd strongly recommend coming to the December Meeting.

And lastly, there has been some chatter among club members about the idea of bidding to host NIRCA Nationals next year. I think this is a great idea, but we would need someone else (i.e. besides myself, Jade, or Ben Hoegh, who served as our Regionals planning committee this year) to step up and take the lead in submitting the bid and directing the race. This topic will be discussed at the meeting in December as well, so if you're interested in bringing NIRCA Nationals here, make sure you're there.

Let me know if you have any questions.


November Meeting Announcement

Posted by: Jeremy Berg
12:18 am, Monday, November 16, 2009

We will be holding our post season wrap-up meeting this Wednesday, November 18th, at 7:15pm in Humanities 2111. We'll take a look back at cross country season- discussing what we want to continue to do in the future and what we may want to change- as well as begin to turn our attention towards track season, with the first indoor meets just two months away.