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HIGHLIGHTS:
* Recent Events: Men Incomplete, Women 17th at Bowles Invitational
* Coming Up: Final Regular Season Meet at Santa Clara Invitational
* George Fox to Host NWC Championships on Oct. 27 at Willamette Mission
* Ware, Giffey-Brohaugh HM for NWC Runner Honors Again
* Bruin Men Stay 8th in Latest USTFCCCA Regional Rankings
* Personal Bests: Two New 5K Marks, One 8K Mark Set in Salem
RECENT EVENTS: Men Incomplete, Women 17th at Bowles Invitational
* Sept. 29 - Charles Bowles Invitational at Bush's Pasture Park, Salem, Ore.
--- Men - incomplete / Women - 17th of 26
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COMING UP: Final Regular Season Meet at Santa Clara Invitational
Sat., Oct. 13 - Santa Clara Bronco Invitational at Baylands Park, Sunnyvale, Calif.
--- 9:00 a.m. - Women's 5K Open / 10:30 a.m. - Men's 8K Invitational
A total of 42 teams -24 women's and 18 men's - are entered in the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational, which will be the final regular season event of the fall for the George Fox Bruins. The day's events begin with a Fun Run at 8:15, followed by the Women's 5K Open at 9:00 a.m., the Women's 5K Invitational at 9:45 a.m., and the Men's 8K Invitational at 10:30 a.m.
The Bruin women will compete in the Women's Open. which will be composed of small college teams, while the mahjor college teams will compete in the Women's Invitational. Due to a smaller field, the men's teams from all divisions will be entered in one race, the Men's Invitational, so the Bruins will find out how they stack up against some of the nation's best runners.
Following this meet, the Bruins will have a week off to prepare for the Northwest Conference Championships on Saturday, Oct. 27. George Fox will host the NWC races at their new course at Willamette Mission State Park near Brooks, Ore.
THE COACHES:
Head coach John Smith (George Fox '96) is in his second year as the head coach of all George Fox track and field and cross country programs. After eight years as an assistant, he took over in the summer of 2006 upon the retirement of 19-year veteran coach Wes Cook. Smith was a two-time NAIA All-American in the decathlon for the Bruins and still holds the GFU decathlon record (7,138 points). Click here for the complete bio on Coach Smith.
One of John Smith's first acts as the new head coach of the George Fox cross country and track and field programs was to name Mike Hickey (Washington State '98) as associate head coach for cross country. Hickey, now in his second year at George Fox, was head cross country and assistant track coach at Clackmas Community College (1998-2001) and an assistant in both sports at Portland State University (2001-2005) prior to joining the Bruins. Click here for the complete bio on Coach Hickey.
BRUIN BITS:
* George Fox to Host NWC Championships on Oct. 27 at Willamette Mission
George Fox University will host the 2007 Northwest Conference Championships for men's and women's cross country on Saturday, Oct. 27, on the Bruins' new home course at Willamette Mission State Park.
The women's 6,000 meter race will be held first at 11:00 a.m., followed by the men's 8,000 meter race at 12:00 noon. The two races alternate going first each year.
George Fox last hosted the NWC Championships in 1997 at Champoeg State Heritage Area near St. Paul, Ore. The Bruins changed home courses this year because of a growing scarcity of available dates at Champoeg and to develop a more spectator-friendly course.
Willamette University has won the men's title each of the last six years, and the women's title five years in a row. With both teams in the top 10 nationally again this year, they will be the favorites to defend their crowns. Last year's individual champions, Ian Batch and Sarah Zerzan of Willamette, are back with eyes on repeating.
A web site for NWC Championship details and results linked from the George Fox cross country home page will appear shortly.
* Ware, Giffey-Brohaugh HM for NWC Runner Honors Again
Jordan Ware for the third time and and Rachel Giffey-Brohaugh for the fourth time received honorable mention for Northwest Conference Runners of the Week for Sept. 24-30 after their performances in the Charles Bowles Invitational on Sept. 29 at Bush's Pasture Park in Salem, Ore.
Ware posted the best time for the Bruins with a 26:09.81 in the 8K race, only five seconds off his personal best. He placed 75th out of 268 runners in the race. The Bruins as a team took an incomplete, with only four members of the team competing.
In the women's 5K race, Giffey-Brohaugh set a new personal record at that distance by 16 seconds with a time of 18:43.90. She was 33rd overall out of 265 runners and 32nd for team scoring. The Bruins placed 17th out of 26 teams in the event.
* 2007 Honors:
Paul Rapet
- Bruin Athletic Association Men's Athlete of the Week (Aug. 27-Sept. 2)
- NWC Men's Runner of the Week (HM, Aug. 27-Sept. 2)
Rachel Giffey-Brohaugh
- Bruin Athletic Association Women's Athlete of the Week (Aug. 27-Sept. 2)
- NWC Women's Runner of the Week (HM, Aug. 27-Sept. 2; HM, Sept. 10-16; HM, Sept. 17-23; HM, Sept. 24-30)
Jordan Ware
- NWC Men's Runner of the Week (HM, Sept. 10-16; HM, Sept. 17-23; HM, Sept. 24-30)
* Bruin Men Stay 8th in Latest USTFCCCA Regional Rankings
In the latest rankings of NCAA Division III cross country teams by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) of Oct. 9, the George Fox men were 8th in the West Region, the same spot they have held for the last three weeks. In fact, the West Region rankings did not change from Oct. 2 to Oct. 9: Willamette University (4th nationally), Occidental College (24th), Colorado College (30th), Linfield College, Whitworth University, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, the University of Puget Sound, George Fox, Whitman College, and Pomona-Pitzer Colleges.
For complete national and regional rankings, visit the USTFCCCA web site.
* Personal Bests: Two New 5K Marks, One 8K Mark Set in Salem
Rachel Giffey-Brohaugh and Bethany Adams both set new personal records for the women's 5K in the Charles Bowles Invitational at Bush's Pasture Park in Salem, Ore., on Sept. 29. Giffey-Brohaugh ran an 18:43.90, topping her previous best of 19:00.35 by 16 seconds, while Adams' time of 19:39.70 surpassed her previous best of 19:43.95 by four seconds.
For the Bruin men, Adam Haldorson recorded a new personal mark in the Charles Bowles 8K with a time of 29:21.45, edging his previous beset of 29:22 which he had achieved earlier this season in the Sundodger Invitational on Sept. 15 in Seattle, Wash.