Women Take Seventh, Men 14th In Wisconsin

Friday, October 13

Madison, WI

TBD

University of Washington

Wisconsin Invitational

October 13, 2017 | Cross Country

Women Championship Results Men Championship Results Women 'B' Race Results Men 'B' Race Results

By: UW Athletic Communications

MADISON, Wisc. – Both Husky cross country squads saw progress today in one of the biggest events of the year, the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course. The UW women's team took care of business with a seventh-place finish, positioning itself well for nationals down the line, and the men also outran eight top-30 teams with a 14^th-place finish in a loaded field.

The huge Wisconsin fields featured 16 of the top-30 nationally ranked women's squads and 20 of the top-30 men's teams. Third-ranked New Mexico won the women's race with 87 points. The 11^th-ranked Huskies tied for sixth with 257 points but lost a tiebreaker to Furman, thus finishing seventh. That was ahead of fifth-ranked Stanford which placed eighth with 292 points, and the Dawgs also beat out No. 14 Indiana, No. 17 Wisconsin, No. 18 Iowa State, and five more teams ranked between No. 20 and No. 28.

The men's team was 14^th overall with 445 points. The Dawgs entered unranked but finished ahead of No. 13 Iona, No. 14 Iowa State, No. 15 Boise State, No. 16 Illinois, No. 18 Virginia, No. 21 Indiana, No. 25 Wisconsin, and No. 30 Columbia. Only one unranked team finished higher than the Huskies, Minnesota, finishing 12^th. No. 1-ranked Northern Arizona got the win with 50 points.

Leading the way for the women once again was senior Amy-Eloise Neale as she earned her second straight top-15 finish at Wisconsin. Neale placed 14^th today in 20:06, leading UW for the seventh meet in a row. Senior Izzi Batt-Doyle was the second Husky across in 43^rd overall in 20:34. Sophomore Kaitlyn Neal was next in 50^th-place in 20:42.

Senior Anna Maxwell finished in 20:59 for 73^rd place and junior Emily Hamlin completed the top-five scorers in 77^th-place in 21:00. Sixth for UW was freshman Allie Schadler, taking 93^rd overall in 21:15, and Nikki Zielinski was seventh in 177^th-place out of a field of 227 competitors.

Gardner had one of the best regular season races of his career with a 37^th-place finish today in a time of 24:13. That was an improvement of 54 places from a year ago for the senior from Spokane. Along with Gardner's strong run, the Huskies got a huge effort from sophomore Andy Snyder today, who was eighth on the squad two weeks ago at the Dellinger but was second today, finishing 91^st overall in 24:39. Snyder had only run in the top-five once before, at the season-opening Sundodger where he was the No. 5 scorer. Last year at Wisconsin, Snyder finished 180^th overall.

Seniors Johnathan Stevens and Colby Gilbert finished side by side in 99^th and 100^th-places, respectively. Freshman Tibebu Proctor completed the top-five in 118^th-place in 24:53. Junior Mahmoud Moussa crossed in 176^th-place and sophomore Charlie Barringer was 185^th out of the field of nearly 250 competitors.

In the women's "B" race, freshman Erica Schroeder led the way with a 13^th-place finish out of a field of 101 runners with a time of 21:27. Freshman Camila David-Smith was 30^th in 21:55 and freshman Kiera Marshall was 33^rd in 22:02.

Redshirt freshman Gavin Parpart was the leader in the men's "B" race coming through in 23^rd-place in a time of 25:11. Just a couple seconds behind was redshirt frosh Nate Beamer in 27^th in 25:13, then Nick Laccinole was three seconds back in 30^th-place in 25:16. Julius Diehr placed 39^th overall in 25:26 and David Strome was 82^nd in 26:41.

Washington will now roll right into the championship half of the season, beginning with the Pac-12 Championships in two weeks in Springfield, Ore. on Oct. 27.