Waves Travel To Arizona
10/3/2007 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
UPCOMING — The Pepperdine men’s and women’s cross country team will compete in the 22nd Arizona State Invitational in Tempe, Arizona this Friday (Oct. 6).
ARIZONA STATE INVITATIONAL: Friday, Pepperdine’s women will run the first race of the meet (5k) at 5 p.m. at Kiwanis Park. The men will follow in the 8k at 5:30 p.m.
PEPPERDINE INVITATIONAL — The Waves men placed 10th at the Pepperdine Invitational while the women placed 11th in the 6k race.
Leading Pepperdine, was freshman Seth Allison (Canyon, Texas/ Canyon HS) finishing 41st with a time of 26:33. Freshman Isaiah White (Thousand Oaks, Calif./ Thousand Oaks HS) was 47th in 26:47, followed by freshman Tom Verdone (Anaheim, Calif./ Canyon HS) finishing 65th in 27:25, freshman Eric Magana (Whittier, Calif./ La Serna HS) finished in 68th place with a time of 27:36 and finishing in 87th place was senior Josh Stutzman (Newberg, Ore./ Newberg HS) in 30:46.
Junior Marissa Kerby (Riverside, Calif./ Ayala HS) was the top women finisher for Pepperdine in 83rd place with a time of 23:58. Just one place back in 84th place was junior Ashley Burt ( Boise, Idaho/ Boise HS) coming through the chute in 24:00, followed by freshman Mary Stutzman (Newberg, Ore./ Newberg HS) finishing 89th in 24:31. Senior Lauren Carfioli (Coto de Caza, Calif./ Santa Margarita HS) was the 100th runner to cross the line in a time of 26:30 and sophomore Liz Lyons finished 104th with a time of 26:54.
HEAD COACH— Robert Radnoti begins his second season as head coach of the Pepperdine men’s and women’s cross country program. Radnoti previously coached at Thousand Oaks High School where his girls’ team won the Division I state cross country title in 2005. Radnoti brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the program.
ASSISTANT COACHES — Four-time Olympian and U.S. national 800-meter record holder Johnny Gray joins the Pepperdine cross country program this season. Gray will work primarily on speed and technique. Dick Kampmann, the former Wave’s cross country coach for 17-years, returns as a volunteer coach. Jan Radnoti, who has coached alongside her husband at Thousand Oaks High School, also begins her first year with the Waves as a volunteer assistant.
CROSS COUNTRY PHOTO GALLERY — The men's and women's cross country now has a photo gallery on their website. Click on the blue button marked photo gallery to access the most recent pictures of the Waves during competition.
PEPPERDINE HISTORY —Pepperdine’s cross country program dates back to the 1960s when Ron Pettigrew and Harry Skandera were both All-American runners. The program was dropped when Pepperdine moved its campus to Malibu. However, men’s and women’s cross country was reinstated in the mid-1970s. This year’s women’s squad is the largest in the history of the Pepperdine program.
