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Nov. 3, 2004
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Miami Finishes Sixth at MAC Championship: For the fourth time this season, Freshman Carol Eckerly finished first among her teammates as she finished seventh overall with a time of 18:30.20 at the MAC Championship in Toledo on Saturday, earning herself second-team all-MAC status. Freshman Jennie Stoll continued her streak of finishing in the top two in all six races this season, placing 19th overall in 18:56.00. It was the fourth time this season that all five scoring runners are in their first year in a Miami cross country uniform, as junior Kristen Proach took 29th overall in 19:07.60, freshman Tricia Frisella finished 36th in 19:17.10, and Sarah Henize took 43rd in 19:28.50.
Come One, Come All: The RedHawk distancers visit the campus of Eastern Michigan for the NCAA Great Lakes regional on Nov. 13. Miami is one of 34 schools in the Great Lakes region to sponsor women's cross country and be eligible to compete in the event. The region encompasses all Division I schools from Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Six nationally-ranked teams in the FinishLynx national poll call the Great Lakes region home, including No. 4 Michigan, No. 6 Notre Dame, No. 13 Michigan State, No. 16 Illinois, No. 27 Indiana and No. 30 Butler.
Last Year's NCAA Regional Meet: Miami took 14th of 30 schools at the 2003 NCAA Great Lakes regional. Of the five Miami scorers at last year's NCAA Regional meet, held at Indiana State, three do not return this season. Andrea Kremer took sixth overall, while Kristin Wrede was 49th and Kylee Studer was the 90th woman across the tape. None of the three return this year, though Abbey Reeser, who finished 105th overall, is on this year's squad, as is 124th-place finisher Kelly Ardelean. Miami's other two participants, Jen Taylor and Leslie McCue are back as well, but of the four, only Ardelean has scored in a meet this year.
It's A Guessing Game: The MAC Preseason poll was taken back in August, and it was two-and-a-half months later that the prognosticating coaches had the chance to see how accurate their predictions were. The MAC releases only the top six finishers in the poll, and Miami's finish was the only one predicted correctly. Preseason MAC favorite Toledo and fifth-place poll finisher Kent State flip-flopped, as did second-place poll finisher Akron and third-ranked Ball State. The only one of the six released preseason poll schools not to finish in the top six was fourth-ranked Western Michigan, which finished eighth on Saturday.
Ranked RedHawks: Miami is in 13th place this week in the Great Lakes Regional Poll after being ranked 10th in the last poll, released Oct. 17.
Talented Rookies: Though Andrea Kremer, an all-American during her career and the most accomplished athlete in Miami women's cross country history was the top Miami finisher in all of her races during her freshman season in 2000, Miami seems to be following a similar strategy this season. Four times this year, all five of Miami's scorers have been in their first year with the program, and in all six races, a true freshman has been Miami's top finisher. Jennie Stoll and Carol Eckerly have been the first and second Miamians across the tape in all six races, Eckerly first four times and Stoll first twice. Though the RedHawks have the potential for five true freshmen to score, with Sarah Henize, Tricia Frisella and Mia Fiegelist all straight out of high school, academic junior Kristen Proach, in her first year with the program, has scored in five of the six meets. Among the true freshmen, Frisella has always finished third or fourth, Henize has scored four times and Fiegelist once.
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