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Men opened season Friday night (8/31) at the Christian Brothers University Memphis Twilight.

Big news is that UCA's Marcus Schweikert was the overall college/university division winner over the 4 mile course in 20 minutes....that is 5 minutes per mile for the math challenged. While it is hard to compare XC races due to weather and courses, the UCA school 4 mile XC best time is about 19:20...I witnessed one of those a few years (decades) ago. Still, this is a great achievement by Marcus in hot weather. The Bears were 4th as a team behind Memphis, Mizzou and UT-Martin. I am assuming Mizzou did not run their top couple of runners as they are usually very good in distance. Nevertheless, this is a good first meet for the region. The race is run around a a very large soccer complex in southeast Memphis and ( I assume still) finishes with a lap in a nice soccer stadium. Weather is usually very warm and very humid even when run at dusk.

UCA's next two runners were 6th and 13th which is encouraging.

http://www.ucasports.com/news/2018/9/2/mens-cross-country-schweikert-opens-xc-season-with-victory.aspx?path=cross

Complete results at link below:

https://static.cbubucs.com/custompages/Stats/XC%20Results/2018/College%20Men.htm

Arkansas State was 7th, Ole Miss 10th (almost assuredly did not run top runners), Houston Baptist 12th and UALR 13th.

Just for fun, scoring the meet as if only UCA, Memphis, Mizzou and Ole Miss were competing, then Memphis won with 45, MU at 49, UCA with 51 and Ole Miss with 101.

Next meet is the home meet at Lake Beaverfork this coming Saturday then the first real test at the Chile Pepper festival in Fayetteville on 9/22.....great course and great competition.

Go Bears!!!

Chile Pepper Festival, Fayetteville, 9/22/18

Note - This is a HUGE cross country meet over a really good course. Good experience for learning how to run in big crowds. I was there all day and course was pretty wet. especially around turns. SugarBear FR Gracie Hyde ran really well....she finished with a group of runners that had she been just a few steps faster would have been Top 16. Her time is about 5:45 per mile which is terrific on a wet and muddy course.

https://ucasports.com/news/2018/9/22/womens-cross-country-uca-women-11th-men-13th-at-chili-pepper-festival.aspx


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. _ The University of Central Arkansas women finished 11th and the men 13th at Saturday's Arkansas Chili Pepper Cross Country Festival at the UA Agri Park.

UCA's women were 11th out of 51 teams, with freshman Gracie Hyde getting UCA's top finish at 20th place in a time of 18:02.7 over the 5K course.

UCA senior Taylor Dunn finished 37th in a time of 18:19.3. Junior Erin Woodward finished 88th (19:06) while sophomore Charlotte Blair was 107th (19:20). Freshman Casey Gore was 119th (19:30.5), followed by freshman Amy Vedder in 136th (19:49) and freshman Kennedy Timmerman in 141st (19:53.3).

On the men's side, UCA was 13th out of 49 teams, led by sophomore Alex Hanson in 46th place with a 25:53.4 over the 8K course. Senior Julien Jeandree finished 71st in 26:07.9, while senior Brock Collins was 78th (26:18.7). Freshman Hunter Henderson finished 101st (26:35.3) andd senior Alonzo Pollum was next in 102nd (26:35.7).

Junior Jaron Hamilton finished 117th (26:48.1) and sophomore Jared Hamilton was 146th (27:27.1).

The UCA men will compete at both Kansas and McNeese State next weekend, while the women will run at Kansas

UALR Invite, 10/13/18

Hyde's 17:53 for 5K is very solid for a FR.........Hunter Henderson, another FR, runs 25:28 for 8K which is a nice run......

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. _ The University of Central Arkansas women's squad finished second and the men's split squad fourth at Saturday's Little Rock Invitational held at Rebsamen Golf Course.

UCA finished ahead of host Little Rock to earn four points in the Governor's I-40 Showdown points standings. UCA now leads Little Rock, 12.5 to 1.5.

UCA freshman Gracie Hyde finished fourth overall with a time 17:53.3 over the 5K course. Senior Alejandra Ruiz was 10th in 18:25.5, followeed by junior Erin Woodward in 14th (18:38.0), freshman Casey Gore in 21st (18:59.1), freshman Kennedy Timmerman in 35th (19:21.6) and senior Skylar Lange in 38th (19:27).

On the men's side, a split squad for UCA's men was led by freshman Hunter Henderson in third place (25:28) over the 8K course. Senior Alonzo Pollum finished eighth (25:47.6), followed by freshman Elijah Ankrom in 28th (26:44.4), freshman Brett Borchert in 43rd (27:08.1), senior Brant Cook in 46th (27:11) and freshman Tate Whaley in 48th (27:13).

The teams are now off until the 2018 Southland Conference Championship on Oct. 26 in Lake Charles, La, hosted by McNeese State University

https://ucasports.com/news/2018/10/26/mens-cross-country-uca-men-take-home-first-slc-xc-championship.aspx

New SLC Men's XC champions!!!!!!

Been a long time since Bears last won XC championship........very proud of these guys............not be satisfied with just making a good showing......sounds like they were mentally tougher than the rest...meet 10/26/18 at Lake Charles.....Go Bears!!!

https://ucasports.com/news/2018/10/26/womens-cross-country-ucas-hyde-earns-freshman-honor-at-slc-championship.aspx

Without two top runners, SugarBears finished a respectable 6th.....that may have kept them from winning also looking at meet results......FR Gracie Hyde was 7th for 2nd team All-SLC........Go SugarBears!!

@NCAA South Regional XC
Texas A&M, College Station

https://ucasports.com/news/2018/11/9/mens-cross-country-uca-men-10th-at-ncaa-south-central-regionals.aspx?path=cross

http://flashresults.com/2019_Meets/xc/NCAASC/001-1_compiled.htm

There are 9 D1 regions and each serves as a qualifier for nationals to be held this year at Madison, Wisconsin. Team finishes below........Southland pretty good with 5 of Top 12......Bears #10......this is not the best region overall although it is hard to win with Arkansas and Texas both of which have strong XC programs......

Winning individual was Jamie Crowe of Lamar.

Top UCA was Julien Jeandree in 45th inn 33:19 (5:21 per mile). Our distance crew is really not geared to 10k but more to 800-3000m so running 10k is a bit of a stretch...

FR Gracie Hyde of Benton was the only SugarBear runner to compete and finished 44th in 22:07 (5:55 per mile) for 5k.

Men:
1 Arkansas 59 7
2 Texas 76 7
3 Texas A&M 135 7
4 Rice 141 7
5 North Texas 162 7
6 UT-Rio Grande Valley 183 7
7 Incarnate Word 194 7
8 UT-Arlington 237 6
9 Lamar 242 5
10 Central Arkansas 260 7
11 Stephen F. Austin 264 5
12 McNeese State 337 6
13 Tulane 353 7
14 Houston 372 7
15 LSU 399 7
16 Texas A&M-CC 425 7
17 Sam Houston St. 467 7
18 SE Louisiana 468 5
19 Louisiana Tech 511 6
20 Baylor 515 5
21 Texas Christian 630 7
22 New Orleans 630 7
23 Nicholls State University 670 6
24 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 709 7
Texas State NTS 2
UTSA NTS 4
Abilene Christian NTS 3
Houston Baptist NTS 1