@Chile Pepper in Fayetteville
http://www.ucasports.com/news/2016/10/2/uca-women-10th-men-11th-at-chili-pepper-festival.aspxThis is a NCAA certified course and is the site of the D1 Regionals next month. The course runs a little fast as it has few hills and when the wind is calm as it was Saturday.
This meets runs a D1 division and D2 and Others division together but scores separately. That makes for a very big and crowded field of runners. The men's race had 63 teams and a total of 301 finishers. The women's race had 310 finishers and 40 teams.
UCA's top runners did well. Brigitte Caruthers was 22nd (excellent) in 17:31 which is very solid. Marcus Scweikert was 32nd in 24:57 for 8k and Bill Kemboi was 38th in 25:08 both of which should show well at SLC meet.
Other than Arkansas, UCA defeated the other Arkansas D1 teams who competed (UALR, ASU).
Men's D1 Team Results
32 Arkansas
115 Wichita State
115 Mizzou
132 Texas Tech
149 Villanova
Interestingly Samford was 6th.
The overall winner was Vincent Kiprop of D2 Missouri Southern who ran a fabulous 23:04 for 8k (about 4.9 miles) for a stout 4:42 per mile average. He led from about he 200 meter mark and never looked back.
Women's D1 Team Results
22 - Arkansas
72 - Mizzou
127 - TCU
134 - Wichita State
156 - Samford
UCA was 10th of 18 at 294.
The overall winner was Karissa Schweizer of Mizzou in a very fine 16:09 for 5k (3.1 miles). I have seen Karissa run many times in indoor and outdoor track and when she is "on" she puts on a vicious surge the last third of the race which she did Saturday. Her time is about 5:10 per mile.