Pac-10 Cross Country / Track Championships, October 30, 2009 | Long Beach, CA Options

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THE COURSE . . . The men’s course will cover 8,000 meters at Sky Links Golf Course, Long Beach, Calif.. The women, meanwhile, will run a course of 6,000 meters.  The flat terrain for both the men’s course and women’s course will be run over grass, with short sections run across cart paths.

MEN’S RACE (41st annual). . . STANFORD and OREGON each won their respective races at the NCAA Pre-Nationals and enter the Pac-10 Championships ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the latest USTFCCCA polls... Look for senior Dylan Fitzpatrick and junior Mohamud Ige to pace ARIZONA at this year’s championships... ARIZONA STATE veteran runners senior Brandon Bethke and junior Ben Engelhardt will keep the Sun Devils in contention. Bethke finished sixth (23:49.4) in the White Race at the NCAA Pre-Nationals... CALIFORNIA will count on junior Kari Karlsson and freshman Collin Jarvis to lead the Golden Bears... OREGON, the defending Pac-10 and NCAA champions, are coming off a successful NCAA Pre-National showing with a first-place finish in the Blue Race. Sophomore Luke Puskedra, who took individual honors (23:40.2) in the Blue Race, junior Danny Mercado and senior Andy Klotz will lead the Ducks... STANFORD, currently the top-ranked team in the nation, was equally as impressive at the NCAA Pre-National meet with a first-place finish in the White Race. Sophomore Chris Derrick, who took top honors (23:27.1) in the White Race, will be joined by juniors Elliott Heath and Justin Marpole-Bird in leading the Cardinal... Senior Marlon Patterson was the top Bruin at the NCAA Pre-National, and will be joined by fellow seniors Marco Anzures and Alex Crabill in leading UCLA’s charge at the Pac-10 Championships... WASHINGTON seniors Jake Schmitt and Colton Tully-Doyle have led the 13th-ranked Huskies this season and will look to contend in Long Beach... WASHINGTON STATE was impressive at the NCAA Pre-Nationals with a seventh-place finish in the Blue Race. The Cougars entered the latest polls ranked No. 26 and will look to sophomore Jono Lafler and junior Dan Geib to score well at the Pac-10’s.

LAST YEAR (MEN) . . . OREGON won its third consecutive Pac-10 title and 16th overall with a 19-point margin of victory over STANFORD. The Ducks then went on to successfully defend their national title with the sixth NCAA title in school history. Oregon senior Galen Rupp swept postseason titles by capturing his second Pac-10 title (22:55), took top honors at the NCAA West Region (27:41) by more than 50 seconds, then won his first NCAA individual title (29:04). For his efforts, Rupp was named the Pac-10 Athlete of the Year, as well as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year. Freshman teammate Luke Puskedra was tabbed Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year after placing second at the Pac-10’s (23:32), sixth at the NCAA West Region (28:45), and fifth at the NCAA Championships (29:28).   Oregon coach Vin Lananna was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year, then picked up national honors when he was awarded the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I National Coach of the Year.

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We are doing a soft releasing, in partnership with GoDucks.com the official fan site of the 2009 Pac-10 Track and Field Championship site later tonight!

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Another big weekend for the pac-10! Add your own videos/photos if you got any from the meets. Here is what we got...
Oregon Pepsi Invite (Race Videos, Photos, Coverage site)
Arizona Jim Click Shootout (Race Videos, Coverage site)

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Many of you have already seen the new site, but now we are official! Expect new content often as we lead up to this year's Pac-10 Track and Field Championships! Feel free to post any pac-10 related updates to help cover this year's pac-10 conference action!

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Another amazing weekend for pac-10 competition! Mt. Sac Relays... And three close dual meets (Oregon-UCLA Dual and the women/men Stanford-Cal Dual). It doesn't get much better than that! 100s of race videos are up from Mt. Sac HERE, Oregon-UCLA Race/Field Event/Interview videos HERE and HERE, Stanford-Cal Results HERE.

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USC vs UCLA Dual meet photos by Kirby Lee are up - HERE

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Don't miss a special LIVE broadcast of Oregon's attempt to break Michigan's collegiate 4xMile record of 16:04.54, Saturday night at 8:30pm PST! Watch it LIVE on the Pac-10 fan site.

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100+ Pac-10 Hep/Dec Day 1 Photos are HERE

[shane]

With one event left in Heptathlon, Theisen leads with 5087 pts, followed by Ali - 5025 and McFadden - 4871

[shane]

Theisen wins Heptathlon with 5986, McFadden wins the 800 and finishes 2nd overall with 5780, Ali in 3rd- 5681

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Entries are in!

[cnick]

I'm not a big fan of have the Dec/Hep a week before the rest of the meet. What's the reasoning behind having it early?

[shane]

I think its good, that way the Hep/Dec athletes can still compete in the individual events like everyone else gets to.

[Guest_Cardinal Fan_*]

Will RunnerSpace be showing live race videos?

[cari]

especially since each team is limited to a 24 man/woman roster. your hep or dec athlete can contribute considerably more to the team score with a two weekend format.

[cnick]

I think its good, that way the Hep/Dec athletes can still compete in the individual events like everyone else gets to.

That seems like a way to create fake depth instead of using what you have over a single weekend.

[ross]

There will be no live feed of the meet because it is getting broadcast on Fox sports this Thursday. We will be doing live updates throughout both days though

[kevin]

So that means get your butts down to the track, buy a ticket and support the sport! It's a b-e-a-utiful day! 1500 predictions anyone?

[Guest_Guest_*]

so are there not live updates for prelims?

[RunTiff]

Rupp wins Heat 2 of the mens 1500 with a 3:46