Cross Country: Owls hosting Rice Invitational
9/15/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
Both teams are the defending Western Athletic Conference champions and are the WAC coaches' preseason favorites to repeat. In the South Central Regional Coaches Cross Country Polls released this week, both teams were picked to finish in the top five in the region. The teams were scheduled to begin the season with the Rice Relays on Sept. 1, but the races were cancelled due to bad weather.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Sam Houston State, Lamar, Texas Southern, Prairie View A&M, the University of Houston women and the Rice alumni team will compete against the Owls. The 5K men's race will begin at 8:40 a.m., followed by the 2.3-mile women's race at 9:05 a.m.
The meet will begin at 7:40 a.m. with the two-mile Yahoo race open to all runners. All high school races are two miles, starting with the big high school boys' varsity race at 8 a.m., followed by the girls at 8:20 a.m. The small high school boys' varsity and the junior varsity boys' races will start at 9:25 a.m., followed by the small high school girls at 9:45, the girls' junior varsity at 10:05 a.m. and the boys' freshmen will conclude the meet at 10:35 a.m. The one-mile intramural race begins at 10:25 a.m.
Over 1,000 runners from seven universities and 39 high schools are expected to compete in the meet. All races will start and finish at the Rice lacrosse field.
Awards will be given to the first 10 places in the varsity and university divisions, the first place team award in each division and the first five place in the freshman boys and junior varsity divisions. Also, every high school competitor will receive a complementary ticket to the Rice-Tulsa football game at 2:30 p.m. at Rice Stadium.
