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For Immediate Release October 25, 2011 ~ Arizona State Media Relations Contact: Jeremy Hawkes Office: (480) -965-9544 ~ Cell Phone: (520) 403-0121 ~ Fax: (480) 965-5408 Email: [email protected] ~ www.thesundevils.com THIS WEEK IN ASU CROSS COUNTRY Meet #6 at Pac-12 Championships - hosted by the Arizona State University 2011 Cross Country Saturday, Oct. 29 | Wigwam Golf Resort | Litchfield Park, Ariz. Men’s 8,000m (9 a.m. MST) | Women’s 6,000m (10 a.m. MST) 2011 SUN DEVIL SCHEDULE ASU Set to Host First-Ever Pac-12 Championship Date Meet Location The Sun Devil cross country teams will be looking for their first conference S 3 at George Kyte Invitational Flagstaff crowns this weekend in Litchfield Park, Ariz. S 16 at Dave Murray Invitational Tucson S 24 at Roy Griak Invitational Minneapolis The first-ever conference title of the Pac-12 era will be decided Saturday O 8 at Grand Canyon Invite Goodyear TEMPE-- O 14 at Wisconsin Invite Madison in Phoenix as Arizona State is set to host the Pac-12 Cross Country Champion- ships on Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Wigwam Golf Resort in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Nine O 29 Pac-12 XC Championships Litchfield Park N 12 at NCAA West Region Champs. Palo Alto men’s teams and 12 women’s teams will vie for the honor of being the first confer- N 21 at NCAA XC Championships Terre Haute ence champion in the conference formerly known as the Pac-10, which now plays host to squads from the University of Colorado and the University of Utah. The Pac-12 Championships will be held at the Wigwam Golf Resort. men’s 8,000-meter race will kick off the competition at 9 a.m. MST and the women’s 6,000-meter run will follow at 10 a.m. The awards ceremony is slated to take place at 11 a.m. 2011 ASU QUICK FACTS Territorial Cup Series Location ................................................... Tempe, Ariz. Enrollment ....................................................... 68,064 The State Farm Territorial Cup Series returns for it third year during the 2011-12 aca- Nickname / Mascot ..................... Sun Devils / Sparky demic season and points are up for grabs this Saturday between Arizona State and Colors ................................................. Maroon & Gold Arizona. Based upon who finishes ahead of the other at the Pac-12 Cross Country Conference ...................................................... Pac-12 Championships, one point will be awarded to the winning team’s overall total with two University President ....................... Dr. Michael Crow points available (one for the men and one for the women). Saturday’s matchup will be Vice President/Athletics ............................. Lisa Love the first points available this season towards the annual award Team Information Head Coach (Men) ............. Louie Quintana (8th year) Previewing the Field: Men Alma Mater ...................................... Villanova, 1996 Perhaps no sport in the new Pac-12 conference is as affected by the addition of the Head Coach (Women) ................ Ryan Cole (5th year) Alma Mater .................................... Wisconsin, 2006 new members as cross country. The men’s side of things welcomes No. 6 Colo- Grad. Asst. ............... Andy Ponce de Leon (2nd year) rado to the mix, a perennial national powerhouse and dark horse to win this year’s Alma Mater ........................ Long Beach State, 2006 national crown as well. The Colorado men have won three national titles in the last Grad. Asst. ........................... Lauren Saylor (1st year) decade (‘01, ‘04, ‘06) and are looking for another one this season. They will have Alma Mater .................................. Washington, 2011 to fight their way through No. 4 Stanford on Saturday though in what could be the Dir. of Track & Field ................ Greg Kraft (16th year) Alma Mater ............................... Cal Poly SLO, 1978 matchup of the weekend. No 20 UCLA, No. 23 Oregon and No. 25 Arizona State also sit in the national top 25 this week and will be looking to mix things up as well. XC/TF Office Phone ........................... (480) 965-0016 Look for runners Chris Derrick and Jake Rielly (Stanford), Lawi Lalang (Arizona), XC/TF Office Fax ................................ (480) 965-8149 Assistant Athletic Trainer ............. Frank Perez, ATC Luke Puskedra (Oregon), Joe Bosshard and Andy Wacker (Colorado) to make a Graduate Athletic Trainer ..................... Nicole Lopez go at the first-team All-Conference honors with ASU’s own Darius Terry and Nick Happe in the mix as well. Media Relations Information Contact ............................................. Jeremy Hawkes Email ............................................ [email protected] Information Super Highway Phone (Office) .................................... (480) 965-6592 Anyone looking to follow along with Saturday’s action can tune in to the Pac-12 Phone (Cell) ...........................................520-403-0121 Website by visiting THIS LINK. There you will find links to live results, preview vid- Fax ...................................................... (480) 965-5408 eos, history and rrecords and more. Previewing the Field: Women Perhaps the most cutthroat competition in all the conference championships this 2010 SEASON REVIEW weekend will come from the Pac-12 women’s race. Five of the top 11 teams in the 2010 Women’s Championship Performances nation and and six of the top 16 teams will be duking it out for the team crown and Pac-10 Conference ...................... 7rd ...... 188 points none have established themselves as a favorite quite yet. The No. 2 Washington NCAA West Region ..................... 13th ...... 372 points women are riding the momentum from a victory at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational NCAA Championships ..................... - ..................... - 2010 Men’s Championship Performances FOLLOW US! Pac-10 Conference ....................... 5th ...... 143 points NCAA West Region ....................... 5th ...... 179 points FACEBOOK.COM TWITTER.COM NCAA Championships .................... - ..................... - Sun Devil Track & Field/Cross Country @SunDevilTFXC www.TheSunDevils.com 2010 SUN DEVIL CROSS COUNTRY 1 Coach Quintana / Notes MEN’S HEAD COACH two weekends ago, but the No. 5 Arizona, No. 8 Stanford, No. 10 Cal, No. 11 LOUIE QUINTANA Oregon and No. 16 Colorado teams all will want to make their own case for the conference title. Jordan Hasay (Oregon), Deborah Maier (Cal), Jen Berg- Louie Quintana, the head coach of the Sun Devil cross country program and an man and Elvin Kibet (Arizona), Kathy Kroeger (Stanford), Emma Coburn and assistant coach (distance/mid-distance) Shalaya Kipp (Colorado) will be right up at the front. ASU newcomer Shelby for the track & field program, is entering his eighth season with the Arizona State Houlihan could be the top freshman in the field. harriers this fall. In his time with ASU, his women have captured two NCAA trophies Meet History: Pac-12 Championships (fourth place in 2005 and 2007) while six runners have combined to earn nine All-America honors. On the track, his athletes have The men will be competing in the Pac-12 Championships for the 28th time this won four national titles, 41 All-America accolades and 14 Pac-10 year while the women will run for the 26th time since the Sun Devils joined the Conference individual championships. His distance runners also Conference in 1979, but began competing in the cross country event in 1984 have helped the women’s track & field team to three Pac-10 titles, two NCAA West Region titles and three NCAA Championships and 1986, respectively. While neither team has won the Conference crown, both while his men were instrumental in helping ASU to its first indoor have come close as the men have finished as the meet runner-up twice (the last NCAA crown. In 2011, Quintana will give up the reins of the women’s cross country team to his assistant of several years, Ryan coming in 2004) and the women have done so seven times (the last coming in Cole, but will continue to lead the men’s squad as head coach. 2006). Overall, the men have finished the Top 3 four times while the women ASU’S FINISHES UNDER QUINTANA have done so 10 times. On an individual basis, only one Sun Devil has ever Pac-10 Region NCAA been crowned the Pac-12 Champion and that was Amy Hastings, who won the Year M W M W M W 2004 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 8th 9th race at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 2004. 2005 5th 2nd 3rd 2nd 17th 4th 2006 4th 2nd 11th 3rd -- 13th 2007 5th t-3rd 6th 3rd 26th 4th Last year, Ben Engelhardt earned second-team All-Conference honors at the 2008 8th 4th 8th 4th -- 14th 2009 3rd 3rd t-5th 4th 19th 24th conference meet, placing 14th overall and leading the team to a fifth-place fin- 2010 5th 7th 5th 13th - - ish. Lindsey Prescott was the top woman last year, also earning second-team NCAA CHAMPIONS UNDER QUINTANA All-Conference honors by finishing ninth at the conference championship in Se- Kyle Alcorn ......................................... 3,000m SC ........................ 2008 attle as the team finished seventh overall. Alcorn ................................................ • 3,000m ........................ 2008 Amy Hastings ......................................... • 5,000m ........................ 2006 Victoria Jackson ..................................... 10,000m ........................ 2006 Last Time Out ALL-AMERICANS UNDER QUINTANA In what may have been the most competitive non-championship race in recent Aaron Aguayo ................................ Cross Country .....................