CARR MOTORS IN AT 107 IN NCAA MEN\'S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
TERRA HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 21, 2005 – James Madison senior Allen Carr (Yorktown, Va./York) placed 107th in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Cross Country Championships hosted today by Indiana State University.
Carr covered the 10,000-kilometer course in 30 minutes and :00.1 seconds to cross the finish line in front of 146 other entries in the field of 253 runners. Carr earned his ticket to the event by placing fifth in the Nov. 12 NCAA Southeast Regional, earning All-Region honors. He\'s the first JMU harrier to compete in the national race since Mike Fox ran in the 2000 NCAA Championships.
Wisconsin, the 2005 Great Lakes Regional Champions, placed three runners in the top nine to take the team title. UW's Simon Bairu earned individual honors for the second consecutive season with a race time of 29:15.9, the third-fastest 10K time ever posted at the LaVerne Gibson Championship Course.
This is the third time in the last four seasons that Indiana State University has hosted the national championship race.
After a dry week of weather leading up to race, this year's winning time is just over 45 seconds faster than the top times posted in 2004 following a week of rainy weather. In 2005, it was sunny but cold as the race get off under mostly sunny skies and with the temperature hovering near 40 degrees.
SAUNDERS 96TH AT NCAA NATIONAL WOMEN\'S CROSS COUNTRY MEET
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 21, 2005 – James Madison senior Shannon Saunders (Forest, Va./Jefferson Forest) finished 96th at the NCAA National Women\'s Cross Country Championships, hosted by Indiana State at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course Monday afternoon.
She completed the 6,000-meter course in 21 minutes, 6.6 seconds.
Northern Arizona junior Johanna Nilsson won the individual title with a time of 19:33.9, beating out second-place finisher Columbia-Barnard senior Caroline Bierbaum, who was clocked in 19:46.0.
Some 253 runners completed the race.
Stanford placed three runners in the top 20 and easily won the team championship with 146 points. Colorado was second with 181 and Duke placed third with 185.