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UC  Davis  Distance:  Fortitudine  Vincimus                          1  

End  of  Season  Awards  

 Teammates  voted,  and  results  are  in  for  2011  Cross  

Country  awards  

       Pg.  2  

Athlete  Blog    Lauren  Wallace  reflects  on  her  first  season  as  a  member  of  the  cross  country  team  

                                 Pg.  3  

Women  finish  8th;  Men  17th  at  NCAA  West  Championships  

 On   a   chilly   November   morning   at   the  Stanford   golf   course,   the   women’s   and  men’s  teams  concluded  the  2011  season  at  the   NCAA   West   Region   Championships.  The   meet   brings   together   schools   from  across  the  west  to  vie  for  bids  to  the  NCAA  Championships,   held   ten   days   later   in  Terre   Haute,   Indiana.   The   women’s   team  finished   8th   overall,   six   points   behind   7th  place   finisher   Arizona   State   University.  The  top  seven  teams  were  selected  to  run  at   the   NCAA   championships,   leaving   the  women  disappointed  but  hungry  to  return  for   another   shot   next   year.   The   women  were  once  again  led  by  Sarah  Sumpter,    

Peterson  qualifies  for  NCAA  Champs  who   finished     28th   overall   and   covered  the   6k   course   in   20:58.   Behind   Sarah,  Alycia   Cridebring   finished   45th,   Krista  Drechsler   finished   51st,   Kristine   Lozoya  finished   57th,     Kristina   Taylor   finished  67th,  Katie  Fry  finished  69th,  and  Shannon  Harcus  finished  134th.       Jon   Peterson   highlighted   the  men’s   performance   with   his   10th   place  showing.  He  put  himself  in  contention  to  earn   an   individual   bid   to   the   NCAA  Championships   early   in   the   race,   and  raced   a   gritty   last   3k   to   secure   the   final  individual  qualifying  position.  He  covered  the  10k  course   in    29:30  and  in  doing  so  earned   his   second   straight   bid   to   the  NCAA  Championships.    

Aggie  Medal  Stand  

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December  Newsletter  

Cross  Country  Newsletter  

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 Peterson  finishes  71st  at  NCAA  Championships    On  Monday,  November  21st,  senior  Jon  Peterson  concluded  his  cross  country  career  as  an  Aggie  at  the  NCAA  championships  in  Terre,  Haute  Indiana.  Peterson  covered  the  10k  course  in  30:34.5  and  finished  71st  overall.  The  trip  marked  his  second  straight  appearance  at  the  NCAA  Cross  Country  Championships,  and  makes  him  the  only  Aggie  in  program  history  make  back  to  back  appearances  at  that  meet  at  the  Division  1  level.  Peterson  will  now  shift  his  focus  to  the  track,  where  he  will  look  to  make  his  first  appearance  at  the  NCAA  Track  and  Field  Championships.  Last  season,  as  a  redshirt,  he  ran  13:41  for  5k  and  3:43  for  1500.  As  he  seeks  to  improve  upon  those  marks  in  the  season  ahead,  he  will  undoubtedly  place  himself  among  the  top  collegiate  distance  runners  in  the  country.    

 2011  UC  Davis  Cross  Country  Awards    

 Men’s  Most  Valuable  

Runner  Jon  Peterson  

 Women’s  Most  Valuable  

Runner  Sarah  Sumpter  

 Men’s  Aggie  Pride  Award  

Axel  Stanovksy    

Women’s  Aggie  Pride  Award  

Sam  Kearney    

Men’s  Impact  Award  Trevor  Halsted  

 Women’s  Impact  Award  

Katie  Fry  Kristine  Lozoya  

 

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Looking back into the spring of 2011, I would have never guessed that I would have come this far. The plan was simple: run cross country in the fall to get in shape for track season in the winter and spring. However, going into cross country camp at Point Reyes the plans started to shift directions. My teammates, acquaintances at the time, were talking about going for the win at the Big West Conference and making an appearance at nationals. Soon enough I started to see my own goals and aspirations parallel with team’s. And slowly but surely, I was no longer just a track runner getting into shape; I was a member of the UC Davis cross country team. My relationship with the team changed dramatically throughout the course of the season. This could be from a number of things: traveling together on Sunday long runs, sweating it out with Katie Fry and Sam Kearney on the course, or from the team abs we did every Monday and Thursday. Regardless, one thing was for certain, these ladies are now my family and I would not let them down. Though I was certainly not a top runner on the team, I was still given an opportunity to run at conference down at Riverside. With all of our hard work that started in the early summer months, we were now able to show everyone what we were made of and walked away champions, something I will never forget. Even though the running portion of my season was now over, a selected few were placed into the regionals pool. But this did not stop the other eleven Aggie women from cheering on our team at the Stanford course the morning of November 12, 2011. This is also a day I and my team, will never forget. Not because of an outstanding performance, but because that was the day we did not make it to nationals. Not to worry though, we are just that much more hungry for it next season.

 

 

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Lauren  Wallace  

UC  Davis  Distance:  Fortitudine  Vincimus  

 

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2011  Cross  Country  Schedule      Aggie  Open           September  2nd     Women  1st;  Men  1st      Hornet  Jamboree         September  10th   Women  1st;  Men  6th    Stanford  Invite         September  24th   Women  2nd;  Men  6th      Bronco  Invite         October  15th     Women  14th  ;  Men  DNS    NCAA  Pre-­‐Nationals       October  16th     Women  6th;  Men  25th      Big  West  Conference  Championships   October  29th     Women  1st;  Men  6th      Doc  Adams  Open         November  5th   Women  2nd;  Men  5th      NCAA  West  Region  Championships   November  12th   Women  8th;  Men  17th      NCAA  Championships       November  21st   Jon  Peterson  71st    

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The U

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ggie Cross Country/Track & Field program

has rich and deep roots both on and off the track. D

ating back to the early days of U

C Davis, w

e have called the corner of Russell and A

Streets home, and today Toom

ey Field and Woody W

ilson Track bear the nam

es of two of the cornerstones of our program

, w

hile we also now

have a dedicated cross country course on the far w

est boundary of campus. A

fter many years of success on

the conference, regional and national levels, 2007 marked a

definitive transition point between the D

ivision II and Division I

eras for all athletic teams at U

C Davis.

W

hile one of the goals of the past several years has been to preserve the core identity of A

ggie XC/T&F, our conference

affiliation, traditional rivals and certain aspects of the program

have changed even as the essence of the excellence that we pursue

remains constant. O

ver the years, Aggie coaches, student-athletes

and alum have represented U

C Davis locally, across the country

and around the world at the collegiate, club, professional and U

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ational Team levels. W

e take great pride in the program’s role in

shaping of excellent scholars, athletes and contributing mem

bers of the U

C and global comm

unities.

The 2011-2012 cross country season has already yielded good results on both the m

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embers of the track &

field team are also hard at w

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paign and the outdoor season that follow

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of our operating budget and portions of some coaching salaries -

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help the Aggies achieve their goals and enjoy the benefits from

participation at the corresponding level. Thanks in advance for your support and G

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