Season Begins for Women's Cross Country at USF Invitational

Season Begins for Women's Cross Country at USF Invitational

MEET INFO

  • USF Invitational: Live Stats
  • When: Saturday, Sept. 3, 2021 | 6k at 10:45 a.m.
  • Where: Golden Gate Park | San Francisco, California

SANTA CLARA ENTRIES

NOTES

  • Santa Clara took first in the open category at the annual Bronco Invite last season.
  • Santa Clara finished fifth at the 2021 West Coast Conference Championships.
  • Abbey Meck was the first Bronco to finish and took 27th with a time of 21:49.9. Also scoring was JJ Escalera (30th, 22:02.9), Kinsey Hall (38th, 22:25.9), Hannah Covington (44th, 22:37.5), and Kaitlyn Twadell (47th, 22:45.8). Adelaide Vergnolle, Luciana Lenth, Hannah Aguirre, Irene Nagasaka, and Maiya Fujiwara also raced. All racers return except Covington and Twadell.
  • JJ Escalera (20:38 at Bronco Invitational), Abbey Meck (20:41 at Bronco Invitational), and Kinsey Hall (21:18 at Bronco Invitational) all cracked the program's top-10 6k list last year. The whole list can be found here.
  • Santa Clara welcomes eight freshmen to the team this season. Read more about them here.
  • SCU in WCC Preseason Poll: 5/10

 

QUOTABLE
"We have had some really good practices since reporting a couple weeks ago. This first meet is our chance to see how those practices translate to racing and see where we stand with a couple months to go until our conference championships."

Head coach Pete Cushman

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