Waves Travel To Eugene for NCAA West Regionals
11/6/2007 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
UPCOMING — The Waves will travel to Eugene, Ore., on Saturday, Nov. 10, to compete in the NCAA West Regionals.
NCAA WEST REGIONALS — The NCAA West Regionals get underway on Saturday with the men’s race starting at 11 a.m. and the women’s race beginning at 12:15 p.m.
Eugene / Springfield is one of nine host sites across the nation that will automatically advance the top two team finishers and the the top four individuals from non-qualifying teams to the NCAA Championships to be held on Monday, Nov. 19, at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana.
WCC CHAMPIONSHIPS: Pepperdine men’s cross country runner Chris Ogle took 10th place at the West Coast Conference Championships on Saturday and earned All-WCC honors for his efforts.
Ogle (Tucson, Ariz./Mountain View HS/Arizona), a senior in his first year with the Waves, ran the 8k Crystal Springs course in 25:39. He led the Pepperdine men to a fifth-place finish, one spot better than the Waves ended up in 2006. Freshman David Williams (Manhattan Beach, Calif./Mira Costa HS) was the second Pepperdine runner to finish, as he was 33rd in 26:58.
Pepperdine’s women finished in fifth place for the second straight year. The Waves were led by junior Brie Carroll (Pusan, South Korea) and junior Courtney Young (Encinitas, Calif./La Costa Canyon HS), who finished the 6k race one second apart, 22:39 and 22:40, for 21st and 22 place, respectively.
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 Waves 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.
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.
