November 16, 2011
2011 Season - Vikings finish 25th in final poll
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| Augustana finished the 2011 men's cross country season ranked 25th in NCAA Division III. |
Augustana finished in the top 25 in the NCAA Division III national cross country rankings in the final regular season poll. The Vikings finished 7th out of 39 teams in the very tough NCAA Division III Midwest Regional meet hosted at Saukie Golf Course in Rock Island, Illinois on November 12th.
Augustana accumulated 78 points in the poll, released today by the United States Track & Field/Cross Country Association, dropping from 19th to 25th place.
Veteran head coach Paul Olsen's team managed to stay in the top 25 all season, with a highest ranking of 10 th in early October. After starting the season ranked 20 th , the Vikings moved up to 12 th for two weeks and jumped to 11 th after a win at the 33-team Brissman-Lundeen Invitational in late September. The following week was their highest ranking, after which Augustana dropped to 12 th on October 12th, and fell to 19t h the week after, where it has been the past three weeks.
The final regular season poll is littered with teams from the Midwest Regional, with nine teams ranked in the top 35 in the nation. Five of these teams are ranked in the top 11 spots, including Augustana's College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin rival North Central, which is ranked first. Washington (3 rd ), Wisconsin-Oshkosh (6 th ), Wisconsin-LaCrosse (9 th ) and another CCIW rival Wheaton (11 th ) join North Central near the top. Also in the top 35 are Wisconsin Stevens Point (19 th ), Augustana (25 th ), Wisconsin-Platteville (28 th ) and Chicago (32 nd ).
The Vikings will send one runner, Mike Tisza (Hersey HS, Prospect Heights, Ill.) , to the Division III National Championship held at Lake Breeze Golf Course in Winneconne, Wisconsin this Saturday, November 19th. The race is hosted by Wisconsin-Oshkosh, with the women's championship race being held at 11:00 AM and the men's championship race starting at 12:00 PM.
USTFCCA WEEKLY POLL #9 (as of 11/14/11)
|
RANK |
SCHOOL |
POINTS |
REGION |
CONFERENCE |
LAST WEEK |
|
1. |
North Central (8) |
280 |
Midwest |
CCIW |
1 |
|
2. |
Haverford |
270 |
Mideast |
Centennial |
2 |
|
3. |
Washington |
260 |
Midwest |
UAA |
3 |
|
4. |
Calvin |
259 |
Great Lakes |
MIAA |
4 |
|
5 |
Williams |
239 |
New England |
NESCAC |
7 |
|
6. |
UW-Oshkosh |
235 |
Midwest |
WIAC |
8 |
|
7. |
St. Lawrence |
227 |
Atlantic |
Liberty |
11 |
|
8. |
Middlebury |
218 |
New England |
NESCAC |
16 |
|
9. |
UW-LaCrosse |
215 |
Midwest |
WIAC |
12 |
|
10. |
SUNY-Geneseo |
205 |
Atlantic |
SUNYAC |
9 |
|
11. |
Wheaton (Ill.) |
188 |
Midwest |
CCIW |
5 |
|
12. |
Dickinson |
186 |
Mideast |
Centennial |
6 |
|
13. (tie) |
Bates |
183 |
New England |
NESCAC |
10 |
|
13. (tie) |
Wabash |
183 |
Great Lakes |
NCAC |
22 |
|
15. |
NYU |
182 |
Atlantic |
UAA |
13 |
|
16. |
Bowdoin |
170 |
New England |
NESCAC |
14 |
|
17. |
Nebraska Wesleyan |
149 |
Central |
GPAC |
21 |
|
18. |
Allegheny |
137 |
Mideast |
NCAC |
33 |
|
19. |
UW-Stevens Point |
132 |
Midwest |
WIAC |
20 |
|
20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. |
SUNY-Cortland St. Olaf Tufts Colorado College Occidental AUGUSTANA Hamline Johns Hopkins UW-Platteville Rochester MIT Elizabethtown Chicago Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Manchester Brandeis |
123 110 98 96 89 78 72 69 66 52 48 47 45 42 23 21 |
Atlantic Central New England West West Midwest Central Mideast Midwest Atlantic New England New England Midwest West Great Lakes New England |
SUNYAC MIAC NESCAC SCAC SCIAC CCIW MIAC Centennial WIAC UAA NEWMAC MAC UAA SCIAC HCAC UAA |
27 29 24 NR 26 19 25 RV 18 32 17 23 14 31 35 27 |
