Wolverine Women Ready for NCAA Championships

Wolverine Women Ready for NCAA Championships

THIS WEEK

Saturday, Nov. 20 — at NCAA Cross Country Championships (Tallahassee, Fla.), 10:20 a.m.

TV: ESPNU | Live Results | Live Video

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For the 20th season in a row and the 28th time in the past 30 seasons, the national No. 17-ranked University of Michigan women’s cross country team is preparing to battle for its spot among the nation’s best at the NCAA Cross Country Championships to be held Saturday morning (Nov. 20) at Florida State.

National team glory and individual honors will be on the line as the Wolverine women race six kilometers (3.73 miles) around the Apalachee Regional Park Cross Country Course in Tallahassee, Fla., starting at 10:20 a.m.

For the second year in a row, the Wolverines will run in front of a national television audience as part of the ESPNU broadcast of the national meet. Michigan also will be represented in the men’s 10-kilometer (6.21-mile) race at 11:10 a.m. with its national No. 14-ranked squad.

The lineup that will be looking to secure its seventh top-10 finish in the past 10 editions of the NCAA meet will include seven runners among All-American Ericka VanderLende; All-America challengers Katelynne Hart and Kayla Windemuller; returning top-100 NCAA finishers Anne Forsyth and Samantha Tran; Alice Hill; Samantha Saenz; Julia Vanitvelt; Aurora Rynda; and Lucy Petee.

Conditions are expected to be dry with moderate winds between 5-10 mph. The projected high temperature for the day is 67 degrees, with the thermometer likely reading in the 50s at race time.

Live results will be available through Primetime Timing. Comprehensive in-race updates will be provided at each kilometer split checkpoint on both the team’s official Twitter and its official Instagram Stories.

Things to Know: NCAA Championships

• The NCAA Championships are scored by standard NCAA rules, with the top five runners for each team accumulating points that correspond to their finishing place relative to other full teams in the field (there are also teams that have fewer than five runners at the NCAA Championships; their runners do not factor into the team scoring). The lower the team score, the better. Sixth and seventh runners’ points do not directly…