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OKLAHOMA STATE CROSS COUNTRY Media Relations Contact: Austin Chappell | [email protected] | Cell: 214-674-6762 | Office: 405-744-7714 Media Relations Contact: Sean Maguire | [email protected] | Cell: 405-401-7907 | Office: 405-744-7714 okstate.com | @OSUAthletics | @Run4Okstate | #okstate OKLAHOMA STATE SCHEDULE/RESULTS THIS WEEK Date Event Location Time/Result 8/30 Hurricane Festival Tulsa, Okla. 8 a.m. 9/13 Bluegrass Invitational Lexington, Ky. 9:30 a.m. COWBOY 9/27 Cowboy Jamboree Stillwater, Okla. 8 a.m. 10/18 Santa Clara Bronco Invite Sunnyvale, Calif. 11 a.m. JAMBOREE 10/18 NCAA Pre-Nationals Terre Haute, Ind. 10 a.m. 9:15 a.m. CT | Sept. 27, 2014 | Stillwater, Okla. 11/1 Big 12 Championships Lawrence, Kan. 10 a.m. 11/14 NCAA Midwest Regional Peoria, Ill. 11 a.m. 11/22 NCAA Championships Terre Haute, Ind. 11 a.m. THE BASICS The Oklahoma State men's and women's cross country On the women’s side, the Cowgirls registered a THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS - MEN teams will host the Cowboy Jamboree on Saturday, Sept. third-place team finish behind top-20 runs from Gintare 27, at the OSU Cross Country Course in Stillwater. Zenkeviciute, Emily Helms and Glenn, whose fifth-place Anthoney Armstrong - RS Fr. Luis Martinez - RS Fr. time of 17:02.50 shattered her previous personal best by Fabian Clarkson - Jr. Shane Moskowitz - RS Sr. FOLLOW THE MEET over a minute. Kirubel Erassa - RS Jr. Chad Noelle - Jr. Fans can attend the meet in person or follow the action Natalie Baker (17:31.70) and Savannah Camacho Matthew Fayers - So. Craig Nowak - Jr. live on Twitter by following @run4okstate for updates. (18:15.30) also recorded individual bests, with Camacho’s Noah Gade - RS Fr. Vegard Oelstad - Jr. Final results will be published on www.okstate.com. performance coming in her first cross country appearance Brian Gohlke - RS Jr. David Osborn - RS Sr. Brigham Hedges - RS Fr. Justin Vilhauer - RS Jr. Admission is free to the public. since the 2013 Cowboy Jamboree. Baker and Camacho Alexander Johansson - RS Fr. made their 2014 cross country debuts in Saturday’s race, MEET SCHEDULE while freshman Abbie Hetherington recorded a 27th-place THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS - WOMEN Saturday's Cowboy Jamboree will begin with the time of 17:43.40 in her first appearance in collegiate Natalie Baker - RS So. Abbie Hetherington - Fr. College/JUCO women's and men's races at 8 a.m. and competition. Anna Boyert - Jr. Adela Hofmannova - RS Sr. 8:35 a.m., respectively. The Oklahoma State women's Savannah Camacho - So. Monika Juodeskaite - Sr. squad will hit the course for the University women's ASST. COACH BOBBY LOCKHART - Kaela Edwards - So. Janelle Martinez - RS So. competition at 9:15 a.m. After the Cowgirls complete their MEET COMMENTS Caileigh Glenn - Sr. Clara Nichols - RS So. 5K run, the Cowboys will take the starting line for their 10K On the Cowboy Jamboree serving as a stepping stone Kristine Helle - So. Natalja Piliusina - RS Sr. trek, set to begin at 9:45 a.m. for OSU’s up-and-coming talent: Emily Helms - RS Fr. Gintare Zenkeviciute - So. “I guess for the younger guys, yes, it is a stepping stone A LOOK BACK - 2013 COWBOY JAMBOREE THE FIELD because it’s either their first or second race. That was a Last year's Cowboy Jamboree was dominated by big reason why we raced out in Kentucky, since these School Rank (M/W) Squads Competing the Oklahoma State distance crew, as the Cowboys and guys haven’t raced cross country in quite some time. We Oklahoma State 4/19 Men's and Women's Cowgirls each recorded their fourth-consecutive team feel, with a couple more races under their belt, that they’ll Abilene Christian NR Women's victory at the event. After a two-hour weather delay, do a little bit better at the end of the season. This is a big Belmont NR/NR Men's and Women's the Cowgirls delivered the highest team score behind a one for them. Most of our team, minus one guy, will be Cameron NR* Men's second-place finish from Monika Juodeskaite (17:30.73) racing, so it’ll be their first true test of kind of seeing where Colby CC NR** Men's and top-15 finishes from Kate Kujawa (ninth), Natalie they are on the team and how they rank. Of course, this Creighton NR/NR Men's and Women's Baker (11th), Kristine Helle (14th) and Anna Boyert (15th). is also the coaches’ first opportunity to see the guys really Eastern New Mexico NR/NR* Men's and Women's The Cowboys were matched up against a slew of tough open it up and see where they are on the team, which will Incarnate Word NR/NR Men's and Women's competition, including second-ranked Northern Arizona, ultimately determine our championship team at the end of Metro State RV/5* Men's and Women's but four top-ten finishes helped Oklahoma State grind the year." Oklahoma Baptist 9** Women's out a meet-winning score. Kirubel Erassa's second- On how Luis Martinez and the rest of the team’s redshirt Oral Roberts NR/NR Men's and Women's place time of 24:28.16 led the way for the Pokes, while Shadrack Kipchirchir (third), Tom Farrell (sixth) and Joseph freshmen have performed this year: Southwestern Oklahoma NR/NR* Women's Manilafasha (seventh) followed close behind. “Luis has had a great season so far. Of course, he Texas Wesleyan 19** Women's hasn’t seen much with the competition, but he was running Wayland Baptist 25/25** Men's and Women's LAST TIME OUT - BLUEGRASS INVITATIONAL with some of the top guys from Eastern Kentucky, who I West Texas A&M 11* Men's Luis Martinez and Caileigh Glenn each recorded top- think is ranked 20th in the country right now. Seeing him ten finishes in their respective races to lead the Oklahoma be able to battle with those guys as a redshirt freshman * - Reflects the USTFCCCA Division II Rankings State men’s and women’s cross country teams at the is pretty promising, mainly in terms of the team’s depth, ** - Reflects the USTFCCCA NAIA Rankings Bluegrass Invitational in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, Sept. but also with how far these redshirt freshmen have 13. come along in a year. They looked fantastic at Kentucky, Martinez’s sixth-place time of 24:15.73 marked the especially with running stride-for-stride against one of the fastest of three top-ten times for the Cowboys, as David country’s top-20 teams. For Luis and some of the younger Osborn (24:21.59) and Anthoney Armstrong (24:30.94) guys, it’ll really be their first chance to run in a competitive finished the 8K competition in seventh and 10th, environment.” respectively. Noah Gade’s 12th-place mark of 24:34.01 rounded out a trio of redshirt freshmen in the top 15, helping the men’s side to a narrow second-place finish as a team. OKSTATE.COM | @OSUATHLETICS | @RUN4OKSTATE | #OKSTATE OKSTATE.COM | @OSUATHLETICS | @RUN4OKSTATE | #OKSTATE MEET NOTES/TEAM INFORMATION On the importance of winning the Cowboy Jamboree: OKLAHOMA STATE “We want to win, for sure. The competition this year isn’t what it has been in the last USTFCCCA IN 2013-14 couple of years, but the mindset is the same. We want to go out and win in front of the Cross Country home crowd, which is really, really cool considering we don’t have a lot of competitions Rankings MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY here. It’s important for us. More often than not, we’ve won it, but we want to keep winning, Week Two for sure." • Third place at NCAA Championships (9/23) (Fifth-straight Top 3 finish) On OSU’s leaders competing in their first race of the season: • Big 12 Champions (Sixth-Straight) “We sort of know what we’re going to expect from those guys, especially guys like Men • USTFCCCA Men’s All-Academic Team Kirubel [Erassa], Shane [Moskowitz] and David [Osborn]. They’re all seniors, so they’ll 1. Colorado (12) • NCAA Midwest Regional Champions be patient for the first half of the race. What we’re really looking forward to is seeing the 2. Northern Arizona • Cowboy Jamboree Champions second half of the race and the last 3K, where we can see how they kind of run off of the 3. Oregon • Hurricane Festival Champions base, initially, and then see if the youngsters can make a move and go with them. I think 4 . Oklahoma State • Dave Smith - USTFCCCA Midwest Region Coach of those guys will run exceptionally well.” the Year 5. Stanford • Dave Smith - Big 12 Coach of the Year 6. Portland • Tom Farrell and Shadrack Kipchirchir - All-Americans THE STARS EMERGE 7. Indiana This weekend's Cowboy Jamboree will see several of Oklahoma State's top 8. Syracuse runners make their season debuts. Four Cowboys (Craig Nowak, Kirubel Erassa, Brian 9. Villanova MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD Gohlke and Shane Moskowitz) will make their first appearance since last year's NCAA 10. BYU • Big 12 Indoor Champions Championships, while newcomer Vegard Oelstad will run in his first race as a Cowboy. 11. Wisconsin • Kirubel Erassa named USTFCCCA Midwest Region On the women's side, Monika Juodeskaite, Adela Hofmannova and Kristine Helle will 12. Iona Track Athlete of the Year, Big 12 Performer of the Year sport OSU colors for the first time this season, and Natalja Piliusina will join the Cowgirls 13.