Cross Country Concludes Season at NCAA Regional Championships

Oglethorpe closed the curtain on its 2009 cross country season on the rain-soaked muddied course over the Guilford College campus in Greensboro, North Carolina on Saturday afternoon.  The weather by race time was beautiful - if not overly warm.  But the day's dawning had done little to dry out the hurricane-scarred race course.

Thirty-six colleges from the South/Southeast Region, which stretches from Virginia to Texas, sent team representatives to compete in the women's 6k championship.  Despite sidelining OU's number one runner with injury, the women's team managed to finish 27th.  Leading the scoring for Oglethorpe was senior co-captain Avery Livingston.  She was followed by Sherry Blystone, Michelle Chelemer, Sarah Foster and Bekky Strom.

In the men's 8k championship thirty schools entered contestants.  Oglethorpe's men finished 22nd.  Senior co-captain Enrique Sanchez led the team - as he has for four years - and sadly missed All-Region by one second.  He was followed by co-captain Luis Zimbron, Jay Russell, Ellis Jones, Sean Lovett and Alex Van Zandt. 

Other than Livingston and Sanchez, Jay Russell is the only senior on the 2009 squad.