Saturday, September 23
Charlottesville, VA
5:45 AM
University of Washington
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Virginia Invitational
Huskies Prep For Opening Run At NCAA Course
September 21, 2023 | Cross Country
Virginia Invitational
Charlottesville, Va. | Panorama Farms
Saturday, Sept. 23
Live Results
5 a.m. -- Men & Women Combined Open 5k
5:45 a.m. -- Men's 8,000-meters
6:30 a.m. -- Women's 5,000-meters
Coming down from their preseason camp in the Cascades, the Husky cross country team goes fully across the country for its season-opener this Saturday. Washington's 13th-ranked women and 18th-ranked men are traveling to Charlottesville, Virginia to race in the Virginia Invitational and also get a look at this year's NCAA Championship course.
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The Dawgs will hope to be back in Virginia come November when the season reaches its conclusion on Nov. 18. The championship race will be on the same Panorama Farms course that the Huskies will see Saturday morning.
Race times are bright and early on the East Coast, meaning not-so-bright and even-earlier for fans following from Seattle. There is an open men and women combined 5k race at 8 a.m. Eastern/5 a.m. Pacific time. The men's collegiate 8,000-meters then starts at 8:45 a.m. ET/5:45 a.m. PT. The women's 5,000-meters goes at 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT.
The fields are loaded. The men's race will feature six of the Top-10 teams: No. 1 Northern Arizona, No. 3 BYU, No. 4 Stanford, No. 6 North Carolina, No. 7 Colorado, and No. 10 Virginia plus several other ranked squads. The women's field includes four Top-10 squads: No. 2 Northern Arizona, No. 5 Colorado, No. 9 Stanford, and No. 10 North Carolina plus No. 11 Virginia and No. 12 Georgetown.
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The UW women's team is full of new faces, with runners looking to begin breakout campaigns, and others looking to start big comeback seasons. Returners set to race this weekend include senior Naomi Smith, and sophomores Ella Borsheim and Chloe Foerster, along with third-year sophomore Julia David-Smith, who is now healthy and set for her return after suffering an ACL injury at the 2022 Pac-12 Track meet. Rosalie Fish is also expected to run her first cross country race for the Dawgs.
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Joining the pack are four transfers: Samantha Friborg, Tori Herman, and twin sisters India and Kosana Weir. Herman was an All-American at Kentucky but is working her way back after an injury ended her 2022-23 season. Friborg has had the most success over the 800-meter distance, including a PR of 2:03.83 this past June, but will look to extend out to the 5k distance, as will senior returner Marlena Preigh, a DMR All-American for the Dawgs.
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Sophie O'Sullivan, who has been posting sensational track times all summer long, will be with the squad to train on the course but is not expected to race quite yet.
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The youthful men's team is traveling a squad of seven, only two of which have donned the Husky singlet more than once. Those two are the duo of NCAA Mile Champion Luke Houser and Leo Daschbach, coming off a track season where he scored at Pac-12s in the 5k and 10k and made West Prelims in the 10k.
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New and "almost new" men include a pair of redshirt freshmen who all ran well unattached last year: James Crabtree, and Jamar Distel, plus sophomore Evan Jenkins who raced just once in uniform last fall before running well unattached during the track campaign. The Huskies will get a debut from transfer Eric Gibson, joining the Dawgs from Dartmouth. And the one true freshman set to jump right in to collegiate competition is Tyrone Gorze, who had a sensational senior year at Crater High School in Central Point, Oregon.
Charlottesville, Va. | Panorama Farms
Saturday, Sept. 23
Live Results
5 a.m. -- Men & Women Combined Open 5k
5:45 a.m. -- Men's 8,000-meters
6:30 a.m. -- Women's 5,000-meters
Coming down from their preseason camp in the Cascades, the Husky cross country team goes fully across the country for its season-opener this Saturday. Washington's 13th-ranked women and 18th-ranked men are traveling to Charlottesville, Virginia to race in the Virginia Invitational and also get a look at this year's NCAA Championship course.
Β
The Dawgs will hope to be back in Virginia come November when the season reaches its conclusion on Nov. 18. The championship race will be on the same Panorama Farms course that the Huskies will see Saturday morning.
Race times are bright and early on the East Coast, meaning not-so-bright and even-earlier for fans following from Seattle. There is an open men and women combined 5k race at 8 a.m. Eastern/5 a.m. Pacific time. The men's collegiate 8,000-meters then starts at 8:45 a.m. ET/5:45 a.m. PT. The women's 5,000-meters goes at 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT.
The fields are loaded. The men's race will feature six of the Top-10 teams: No. 1 Northern Arizona, No. 3 BYU, No. 4 Stanford, No. 6 North Carolina, No. 7 Colorado, and No. 10 Virginia plus several other ranked squads. The women's field includes four Top-10 squads: No. 2 Northern Arizona, No. 5 Colorado, No. 9 Stanford, and No. 10 North Carolina plus No. 11 Virginia and No. 12 Georgetown.
Β
The UW women's team is full of new faces, with runners looking to begin breakout campaigns, and others looking to start big comeback seasons. Returners set to race this weekend include senior Naomi Smith, and sophomores Ella Borsheim and Chloe Foerster, along with third-year sophomore Julia David-Smith, who is now healthy and set for her return after suffering an ACL injury at the 2022 Pac-12 Track meet. Rosalie Fish is also expected to run her first cross country race for the Dawgs.
Β
Joining the pack are four transfers: Samantha Friborg, Tori Herman, and twin sisters India and Kosana Weir. Herman was an All-American at Kentucky but is working her way back after an injury ended her 2022-23 season. Friborg has had the most success over the 800-meter distance, including a PR of 2:03.83 this past June, but will look to extend out to the 5k distance, as will senior returner Marlena Preigh, a DMR All-American for the Dawgs.
Β
Sophie O'Sullivan, who has been posting sensational track times all summer long, will be with the squad to train on the course but is not expected to race quite yet.
Β
The youthful men's team is traveling a squad of seven, only two of which have donned the Husky singlet more than once. Those two are the duo of NCAA Mile Champion Luke Houser and Leo Daschbach, coming off a track season where he scored at Pac-12s in the 5k and 10k and made West Prelims in the 10k.
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New and "almost new" men include a pair of redshirt freshmen who all ran well unattached last year: James Crabtree, and Jamar Distel, plus sophomore Evan Jenkins who raced just once in uniform last fall before running well unattached during the track campaign. The Huskies will get a debut from transfer Eric Gibson, joining the Dawgs from Dartmouth. And the one true freshman set to jump right in to collegiate competition is Tyrone Gorze, who had a sensational senior year at Crater High School in Central Point, Oregon.
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