{"id":10312,"date":"2019-09-20T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:13:09","slug":"cross-country-ready-to-focus-at-greeno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/10312","title":{"rendered":"Cross country ready to focus at Greeno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Mackenzie Bennett–<\/strong>Morningside’s cross country teams are headed to Lincoln, Nebraska, to compete in the Woody Greeno Invitational Saturday, Sept. 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The teams are looking forward to the meet. Senior Clare Kortlever, who competed in the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship, said, \u201cWe had a great first race, and we are really starting to put things together to have a shot to compete in the conference on both sides.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Connor Ritz, who competed in the NAIA National Cross Country Championship, said the team has been feeling good and they\u2019re ready to \u201cfocus at Greeno.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being unranked, Morningside Cross Country and Track Coach Dave Nash is excited for the races to come. \u201cWe think it\u2019s going to be the best team we\u2019ve had in half a decade,\u201d Coach Nash said about the men\u2019s team.

This year the men\u2019s cross country team has received two transfer students: Ro Paschal a transfer from Adam\u2019s State in Colorado, and Miles Scott from the University of South Dakota.\u00a0

As for the women, Coach Nash said, \u201cWe think we can exceed our expectations.\u201d

The Mustang women graduated three seniors, two of whom went to Nationals in 2018. Despite this loss, the women\u2019s cross country team gained Payton Boer and Emalee Funderman, both all\u2013Americans in track. The women\u2019s team is looking stronger and stronger every passing day according to several members of the team.\u00a0

Looking to the future, past Woody Greeno, Coach Nash said, \u201cI think that our ability to treat every athlete as an individual based on their strengths and weaknesses will pay off in the end.\u201d

In the GPAC, the Dordt men’s team is ranked eighth. On the women\u2019s side, Dordt is ranked 11th and Northwestern is ranked 22nd.

Although none of the ranked GPAC teams are racing at Woody Greeno, Doane’s men will be represented. The team has received votes in national rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Mackenzie Bennett–Morningside’s cross country teams are headed to Lincoln, Nebraska, to compete in the Woody Greeno Invitational Saturday, Sept. 21. The teams are looking forward to the meet. Senior Clare Kortlever, who competed in the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field National Championship, said, \u201cWe had a great first race, and we are really starting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}