Nothing like a 1-2 finish to start the year. Congrats to Sam Bush and Marlee Starliper for helping our Pack get off to a strong start. pic.twitter.com/Cb6oGK2r1B

— Pack Track & Field and Cross Country (@Wolfpack_TFXC) September 17, 2022

The women's side swept the podium as Bush combined with junior Marlee Starliper and redshirt senior Mariah Howlett for first, second and third place, respectively. With Bush clocking in at 16:14.5, Starliper at 16:20.1 and Howlett at 16:37.5, each of the Pack's top three set personal bests, though Starliper's time was her first in a collegiate 5k.

"It was nice to get the rust busted," Bush said. "I didn't really know what to expect so it's nice to just get some results from the whole team."

The Wolfpack dominated the standings with seven of the top-eight finishers hailing from NC State, including graduate Savannah Shaw, junior Gionna Quarzo, freshman Grace Hartman and sophomore Brooke Rauber taking fifth through eighth place, respectively.

Redshirt junior Shannon Sefton, junior Alyssa Hendrix and freshman Olivia Haas just missed out on the top 10, finishing 11th through 13th, respectively. Freshman Briley Bickerstaff rounded out the Wolfpack finishers in 16th.

"We were really happy with the depth we showed today," said head coach Laurie Henes. "[We're] getting started and really excited to go to Notre Dame and step it up a notch."

If the fact that all of NC State's runners finished in the top 16 didn't give it away, the women ran away with the competition. Though Hartman and Bickerstaff ran unattached and thus did not count towards the team standings, the Wolfpack finished with just 17 points, boasting a nice cushion of 69 points over the second-place Charleston Southern Buccaneers at 86.

Though the Pack cruised to victory in this season-opener, the Adidas XC Challenge is more or less a tune-up for future meets. As the Wolfpack women come off a national championship in 2021, the school's first team title since 1983, the pressure is on as the quest for a repeat begins.

"I feel like we all feel really or at least I feel a little bit of pressure coming into the season," Bush said. "I was just trying to be like, 'it's a whole new team, a whole new aspect to look at this season.'"

On the flip side, others feel that the impact of that 2021 championship remains significant even as a new season rolls around.

"On the women's side, they're not defending anything," Geiger said. "That was last year and last year is over. We talked about this all the time: they're defending nothing. I know they've won a national title but they're not defending it. That trophy is not gonna go away."

The Wolfpack's next opportunity to make some noise will come on Friday, Sept. 30 at the Joe Piane Invitational hosted by Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

https://www.technicianonline.com/sports/nc-state-cross-country-runs-away-with-top-spots-at-adidas-xc-challenge/article_095010d2-362b-11ed-8494-17e9ebebdf85.html

Some big positives yesterday from the Adidas Challenge. Sam Bush (16:14) and Marlee Starliper (16:20) ran extremely well, and actually better than Tuohy did last year when she won this same race in 16:30. Mariah Howlett also ran very well yesterday (16:37), which from what I can find is over 30 seconds better than her previous best collegiate 5k XC time of 17:12. If that can translate to a 6k distance, then Howlett will be a key player this season, likely as either the 5th or 6th runner.

Tuohy, Chmiel, Seymour, Heather Holt, and Nevada Mareno were held out of the race...but that is likely not an indication of an injury with Tuohy and Seymour (or Chmiel). A lot of the top programs are now resting their best runners in the early season races. As mentioned previously, the "rumor" is that Chmiel is slowly regaining her fitness after coming off an injury in the outdoor track season and the coaches may not race her until the ACCs or Nationals. But she is currently practicing with the team and running with the top group, and will likely be near top form by the time the ACC Championships and Nationals come in late October and November.

Shaw ran a pretty decent time of 16:53 and so did Quarzo at 16:59, and hopefully they can improve on that a little and provide solid depth at the 7 or 8 spots. A slight negative is that Brooke Rauber finished 7th among Wolfpack runners yesterday, in the exact same time (17:12) that she ran last year in this same race.

Assuming that Chmiel gets totally healthy and based on last years results and the results yesterday, it looks like our top 7 is: Tuohy, Chmiel, Bush, Starliper, Seymour, Howlett, and Shaw (or Holt, Moreno or Quarzo). That top 4 is looking to be phenomenal, with all of them having a real shot at finishing top 15 at nationals. Hopefully our #5, likely Seymour (or Howlett), is close to that top 4, and this team will be unbelievable. Two of Howlett, Shaw, Heather Holt, Quarzo, and Mareno would provide excellent quality depth at the 6 and 7 spots.

The NC State men's and women's cross country teams opened the 2022 season in dominating fashion Friday evening with both teams claiming five of the top-six finishing positions in their respective races at the Adidas XC Challenge held at the WakeMed Soccer Park Cross Country Course in Cary.

The women dominated the field in their race, finishing with 17 points while the men took home second through sixth place in their race to finish with 20 points.

Women's 5K Recap
Sam Bush took home her first career collegiate individual title, running the course in 16:14.5. She was closely followed by Marlee Starliper (16:20.1) who was competing for the Pack's cross country team for the first time in her career.

Mariah Howlett was next for the Pack in third place (16:37.5) as NC State took home the first three finishing positions.

Savannah Shaw was next for the Pack in fifth (16:52.8) while Gionna Quarzo was sixth (16:59) to round out the Pack's scoring crew.

Brooke Rauber finished eighth (17:12.1), Shannon Sefton 11th (17:24.5) and Alyssa Hendrix closed in 12th (17:37.2)

Running unattached, Grace Hartman finished in seventh (17:06.5), Olivia Haas was 13th (17:43.4), Briley Bickerstaff was 16th (17:52.8).


Up Next
The Pack returns to action Friday, Sept. 30 when it competes at the Joe Piane Invitational in South Bend, Ind.

https://gopack.com/news/2022/9/16/pack-opens-2022-cross-country-season-friday-at-adidas-xc-challenge.aspx

Here are the top-5 teams in Week 2 of the @NCAATrackField DI Women's Cross Country National Coaches' Poll! #NCAAXC

1. @Wolfpack_TFXC
2. @UNMLoboXCTF
t3. @CUBuffsTrack
t3. @run4okstate
5. @StanfordXCTF

CHECK OUT THE REST!

ustfccca.org/2022/09/featur…

Here are the top-5 teams in Week 2 of the @NCAATrackField DI Women's Cross Country National Coaches' Poll! #NCAAXC

1. @Wolfpack_TFXC
2. @UNMLoboXCTF
t3. @CUBuffsTrack
t3. @run4okstate
5. @StanfordXCTF

CHECK OUT THE REST!https://t.co/4xgI8pCuWb pic.twitter.com/8hiaErG0d0

— USTFCCCA (@USTFCCCA) September 20, 2022

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Here are the top-5 teams in Week 2 of the @NCAATrackField DI Women's Cross Country National Coaches' Poll! #NCAAXC

1. @Wolfpack_TFXC
2. @UNMLoboXCTF
t3. @CUBuffsTrack
t3. @run4okstate
5. @StanfordXCTF

CHECK OUT THE REST!

ustfccca.org/2022/09/featur…

Here are the top-5 teams in Week 2 of the @NCAATrackField DI Women's Cross Country National Coaches' Poll! #NCAAXC

1. @Wolfpack_TFXC
2. @UNMLoboXCTF
t3. @CUBuffsTrack
t3. @run4okstate
5. @StanfordXCTF

CHECK OUT THE REST!https://t.co/4xgI8pCuWb pic.twitter.com/8hiaErG0d0

— USTFCCCA (@USTFCCCA) September 20, 2022

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Wolfpack and the Lobos leading the way. A whole Pack of Wolves!

Here is some light on Chmiel's status for this XC season, with this quote from Henes in this article previewing the top 10 women's teams for this season:

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2022/09/2022-ncaa-xc-womens-top-10-nc-state-is-still-the-team-to-beat/

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Kelsey Chmiel, 9th and 6th at the last two NCAA XC meets, is also back after a foot injury sidelined her during the outdoor season. As a result, NC State coach Laurie Henes plans to be cautious with Chmiel this season.

"We want to limit the amount of time she spends in spikes," Henes says. "…And so we may not run all of the races but I believe we're going to be able to run the important races at the end of the season."

The thing is, NC State is so good that they could lose Tuohy or Chmiel and still be #1 in the country. This is a team that qualified five women to NCAAs in the 5,000 last spring, with four of them returning this fall: Tuohy (15:14), Marlee Starliper (15:36), Samantha Bush (15:42), and Savannah Shaw (15:33). Add in Tennessee grad Sydney Seymour, who ran in the 5000 as well (15:34 pb), Gianna Quarzo (NCAA qualifier in the 10k), Nevada Mareno (NCAA qualifier in the 1500), and Mariah Howlett (68th at NCAA XC in '19) and it will be a battle just to make the Wolfpack's top seven.

Indeed, one of Henes' biggest challenges will be making sure her top women don't get overly excited at practice and run each other into the ground.

"Anytime you have a group this talented and this deep, my job seems like a lot of holding people back," Henes says. "But they're doing a good job of that this year. We have enough people with enough experience that they realize this is a long season and you don't need to do anything heroic in training in September to be ready to go in November."

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We had a sort of domineering personality on the mens side who was very talented but liked to party a lot, then later on would admonish his proteges for drinking too much and being **** offs. And Craig Engels trashing the program after he left didn't help. The last few years have been difficult for coach Geiger as far as some of the peripheral crap. I think that culture has been flushed out thankfully and we've got some kids committed to getting better. Geiger hasn't forgotten how to coach and what he's done with Shanklin and this new crop is impressive.

While an early season meet is never going to tell the true story, especially since some teams are still holding out runners (as we likely will continue to do with Chmiel, Tuohy more likely to race), we'll know a lot more about how good this NC State team is this saturday. The Joe Piane Invitational is one of three "premier" regular season races that give a strong national level field to test teams before the post season starts. Last year 7 of the top 15 teams from the women's national meet were at this meet to give you an idea of the strength of the field. Should be a fun race to follow.

Interestingly Kelsey Chmiel is registered for the meet this weekend. 15 runners are registered and only 8 can run in the main race, so they may just use this as a workout for her under race conditions in the Open race. But maybe she's farther along than we thought?

Interview with the creator of the Wood Report, previewing the remainder of this XC season. He says that this NC State women's team has the chance to be "the greatest women's team ever":

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qYL1bee2KDHaYEWA9HvKZ?si=1463d4626bbd4024&nd=1

The Stride Report did a group prediction for the Joe Piane Invitational this saturday with 3 writers.

All 3 writers projected the NC State women to win. The individual projections (they did the top 10) were as follows:

Writer 1: 2. Katelyn Tuohy (NC State) 5. Marlee Starliper (NC State) 8. Samantha Bush (NC State) 10. Kelsey Chmiel (NC State)

Writer 2: 2. Katelyn Tuohy (NC State) 3. Kelsey Chmiel (NC State) 5. Samantha Bush (NC State) 10. Sydney Seymour (NC State)

Writer 3: 2. Katelyn Tuohy (NC State) 4. Kelsey Chmiel (NC State) 6. Samantha Bush (NC State)

They all had Mercy Chelangat from Alabama finishing first, which isn't too suprising considering she won the 2020 national title (held in spring 2021) and finished runner up last fall, as well as winning the 10k title on the track last spring, so her cross country resume is impeccable.

They all had New Mexico finishing 2nd in the race, and they are probably our stiffest competition in the whole country so getting an early race to test ourselves against them is awesome.

MEET DAY‼️

⏰ 10:30am (women) / 11:15 am (men)
📍 Joe Piane Invitational (South Bend, Ind.)
📊 https://t.co/FJCzebhLOO pic.twitter.com/Q8ZrGnkoK4

— Pack Track & Field and Cross Country (@Wolfpack_TFXC) September 30, 2022

Current national rankings at Joe Piane today:
Alabama - 10
Boise State
Bradley
Butler
Charlotte
Florida State - RV (31)
Liberty - RV (34)
NC State - 1
Navy
New Mexico - 3
Notre Dame - 8
Oregon State - 27
Penn State - RV (35)
Purdue
SMU
San Francisco - RV (42)
Southern Utah
Toledo - RV (36)
UC Santa Barbara
Vanderbilt

Good win for State

Tuohy in 1st place, 12 seconds over 2-time NCAA champion Chelangat. 1 second lead at 4k, 12 second win at 5k. Strong finish.

Sam Bush 2nd on the team

Transfer Sydney Seymour 3rd on the team

No Chmiel in the lineup today. If she returns to form by the end of the season, this team will be smashingly good.

Nc state women win scoring 55 points to beat New Mexico (68) and Alabama (70). This was without Kelsey chmiel.

Katelyn tuohy takes home the win in 15:50 with an impressive 12 second margin over Mercy Chelangat.

The timing site is having a ton of issues but I believe Samantha bush finishes 5th, Sydney Seymour 6th, Marlee starliper 12th and Gionna quarzo 31st to round out the scoring

Wow, that sounds like an incredible performance! Thanks for sharing with us.

Timing site seems to be fixed

https://live.pttiming.com/XC-PTT.html?mid=5219

Here's Katelyn coming to the finish, 12 seconds ahead of Chelangat. Apparently this (15:50) is a new course record. Extrapolating that time to a 6k, I think Katelyn would beat the NCAA record for a 6k course.

https://instagr.am/p/CjIoogiJUqq

Freshman Grace Hartman wins the women's open race in 16:45 which would have placed her 6th on the team in the main race. Alyssa Hendrix finishes 5th and Shannon Sefton finishes 8th in 17:13 and 17:28 respectively.

Some interesting notes comparing last years win at this meet to this years:

Katelyn Tuohy improved her time over last year from 16:23 to 15:50 and place from 8th to 1st.

Sam Bush improved her time from 16:42 to 16:11 and place from 19th to 5th

Gionna Quarzo massively improved her time from 17:31 to 16:42 and went from our 4th best finisher in the Open race last year to 31st in the main event

Mariah Howlett went from 17:12 to 16:50 and similarly to Quarzo went from our #2 in the Open race to 37th in the main event

Everyone that raced in both this and last year improved their time and place in this meet.

The only worrisome part is that a gap is exposed here in our scoring as our #5 was 21 seconds behind the #4, and that kind of gap can cause points to add up quickly at the deeper national championship meet. New Mexico only had 21 seconds between their #1 and #7 runners for example and all 7 of those runners were across the line before Quarzo as our 5th. Obviously this shouldn't matter ideally as Kelsey Chmiel should be healthy which gives us 5 incredibly strong runners, and Savannah Shaw and Heather Holt are other options that could potentially be stronger 6th/7th runners. But it does put some pressure on people staying healthy and not having a bad race at the wrong time.

The NC State women's cross country team, led by sophomore Katelyn Tuohy, got off to a hot start at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational Friday morning in South Bend, Ind.

The Wolfpack women's team got the day going with a first-place finish in the Women's Blue 5000m, thanks in large part to Tuohy's first-place finish. NC State (55 points) finished ahead of New Mexico (68) and Alabama (70) in the event. It was the first race for the Wolfpack since the Adidas XC Challenge on September 16 in Cary.

The NC State women's cross country team finished with three runners in the top 15. The leader of the Pack was Tuohy, who crossed the finish line at 15:50, ahead of Alabama's Mercy Chelangat. Tuohy's teammates Samatha Bush (16:11.7) finished fifth and Sydney Seymour (16:11.9) finished sixth. Marlee Starliper was just outside the top 10, coming in 12th with a time of 16:21.9.

Ian Shanklin was NC State's top finisher in the men's Blue 5 mile, finishing seventh with a time of 23:25.2. As a team, the Pack finished ninth overall. Brett Gardner (23:51.0) and David Vorbach (24:08.1) rounded out N.C. State runners in the top 50, finishing 21st and 43rd, respectively.

Shannon Sefton finished eighth in the women's open 5000m, with a time of 17:13.2.

In the men's open five mile, Matthew Bogdan (25:12.9) finished 30th.

Up next: The Nuttycombe Invitational in Madison, Wisc. and the ECU Pirate Invitational.

https://gopack.com/news/2022/9/30/cross-country-wolfpack-women-earn-a-first-place-finish-at-joe-piane-invitational.aspx

Look at Katelyn as she crosses the finish. Doesn't even appear winded. If she gives a 100% effort, you have to believe she could shatter some XC 6k course records this season, including setting the top NCAA 6k time for any course.

https://instagr.am/p/CjO2FnhMUn6

https://instagr.am/p/CjOBOsrA-wt

The Stride Report has updated their team and individual rankings for midseason.

In Team rankings, the women remained at #1 with the writeup being fairly similar to my comments after the Joe Piane writeup. No real reason to worry as the pack beat the #2 team in the country by close 11 point margin but are still racing without Kelsey Chmiel, and would have won over that #2 ranked team by a very convincing 30+ point margin if Chmiel raced and was healthy. However you can never take health for granted so until Chmiel shows us what form she's in its fair to point out that our #5 was well behind the top 4 and could be a weakness if Chmiel doesnt recover or race as expected.

In Individual rankings there was some movement from our ladies. Marlee Starliper comes in at #29, largely the same as her preseason #28 ranking, which seems fair enough as she's met her high expectations but probably not exceeded them at this point. Sydney Seymour shot up from a preseason #29 ranking to #18 after an impressive 6th place finish at Joe Piane last weekend. Kelsey Chmiel sits at #10, down from #6 in the preseason, which seems fair enough as it remains respectful of her immense talent while recognizing there is somewhat of a question mark there. Samantha Bush shot up from preseason #17 to #8 after her big 5th place finish last weekend to back up her very impressive track season last spring. Tuohy also moved to #1 after being #2 and convincingly beating the preseason #1 Chelengat by 12 seconds last weekend.

Preview of Nuttycombe this Friday, which is the most prestigious regular season meet in the country:

https://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=news&news_id=648257

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Timing could be right for Wolfpack to demonstrate might

After capturing its first NCAA Division 1 women's cross country title last year, North Carolina State has the potential to produce two more memorable achievements at 12:20 p.m. CDT in the women's 6-kilometer championship race.

North Carolina State is still seeking its first Nuttycombe title in program history, in addition to the Wolfpack looking to become the first women's program at the meet to secure victory the year after winning a national championship.

Four schools have won Nuttycombe and a Division 1 women's national title in the same year, with New Mexico achieving the feat twice in 2015 and 2017, joining Arkansas in 2019, Colorado in 2018 and Michigan State in 2014.

But no defending NCAA women's champion has ever triumphed at Nuttycombe the following season, which North Carolina State has the potential to accomplish at the Thomas Zimmer Championship course.

Katelyn Tuohy, the reigning Division 1 outdoor 5,000-meter champion, led the Wolfpack placing four athletes in the top 12 on Sept. 30 at the Joe Piane Invitational at Notre Dame's Burke Golf Course to produce a 55-68 victory over New Mexico.

New Mexico is the reigning women's champion at Nuttycombe, earning its third all-time victory last season, in addition to wins in 2015 and 2017.

North Carolina State, which also had Samantha Bush, Marlee Starliper and Tennessee transfer Sydney Seymour finish in the top 12 at Joe Piane, placed second in 2016 and again last year, finished third in 2017 and 2019, along with fourth in 2015 at Nuttycombe.

The Wolfpack entered last year's meet as the top-ranked team after prevailing against New Mexico at Joe Piane, but didn't compete with their top lineup and placed runner-up against the Lobos by a 93-102 margin.

Kelsey Chmiel, who secured second overall last year, hasn't raced this fall for North Carolina State. Although she is listed among the entries for the Wolfpack, it is uncertain if coach Laurie Henes will have Chmiel compete, much like she decided to rest All-American Hannah Steelman during last year's meet.

North Carolina State still possesses the depth to overcome Chmiel's absence with a roster that also includes Gionna Quarzo, Mariah Howlett, Nevada Mareno, Brooke Rauber and Savannah Shaw, but with a field featuring the top nine teams from last year's Division 1 final and 24 ranked programs overall, securing a first Nuttycombe title without her would definitely be a challenge.

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another preview of Nuttycombe from the stride report

It was a group chat similar to the Joe Piane Invitational discussion i posted excerpts from

relevant sections to NC State women

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Q: What percent chance would you give the NC State women to win this race on Friday?

Maura: 90%.

Tuohy, Bush, Seymour and Starliper are just so. darn. good. Top-25 finishes aren't out of the question for that quartet. Their fifth scorer is obviously just as important as their first, so whoever takes over that roll this weekend, be that Kelsey Chmiel, Savannah Shaw, Gionna Quarzo or Mariah Howlett, gives the Wolfpack plenty of options to quickly close-out their top-five.

Either Chmiel or Shaw, likely the former, will be this team's fifth runner, although we don't exactly know what to expect from them, especially Chmiel who has potentially dealt with (unconfirmed) rumors of a foot issue.

Still, it's hard to see how this team loses.

Gavin: 85%. I'm about as bullish as Maura is, but it's difficult to give a team a near-definite chance of winning when we don't know for certain that they will be at full strength...although it is encouraging to see Chmiel and Shaw in the entries.

Still, that probably doesn't matter anyway given that the Wolfpack won the Joe Piane Invitational without Chmiel to begin with. New Mexico's depth does make the Lobos more of a factor in an even larger field, but NC State is very clearly the better team.

Garrett: Give me 92%.

NC State is just the best team in this field. If you want to beat them, you likely have to match their firepower, rather than their depth...and that's really hard to do.

With both Chmiel and Shaw returning, the New Mexico women will need to have multiple runners have the best races of their career to even come close to matching the Wolfpack during Friday's race.

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They seem to be bullish that Chmiel is returning for this one. I would have figured she'd return for ACC's, but i guess we'll see.

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Q:Finish the sentence: Katelyn Tuohy will win by _______ seconds on Friday.

Maura: 17 seconds.

Emily Venters of Utah, Everlyn Kemboi of Utah Valley, Kaylee Mitchell of Oregon State and any of her NC State teammates could challenge Tuohy for the win, but a victory is still in the cards for the national title favorite.

Following her 15:50 (5k) and 12-second win over Mercy Chelangat at Joe Piane two weeks ago, Tuohy has shown us that she can distance herself from the field and still grind away for a fast time.



Gavin: 12 seconds.

Seven of the last eight margins of victory at this meet have come by less than 10 seconds with the exception being Ednah Kurgat in 2017 (16.2 seconds).

I see Tuohy winning comfortably, but running a fast enough time while not being pushed to the line, all while facing an elite field, is hard to do.

Her greatest challenger is probably Everlyn Kemboi, an NC State teammate, or someone from New Mexico or BYU. On paper, nobody in that group stands out as someone who can come within 15 seconds of challenging Tuohy head-to-head over 6000 meters.

Still, it's more likely than not that someone steps up and either separates from the second pack or pushes Tuohy for a decent portion of the race.

Garrett: 17 seconds. I agree with Maura.

I just don't know who is realistically going to come close to Katelyn Tuohy on Friday.

Admittedly, a lot of assumptions about how Tuohy is going to approach this race needs to be made in order to answer this question. But who in this field is going to come within 15 seconds of Tuohy if she was able to beat Mercy Chelangat by 12 seconds, a gap which largely came over the last 1000 meters?

Everlyn Kemboi, Emily Covert and teammate Samantha Bush are all interesting names to monitor, but if Tuohy wants to make a statement, then a 17-second margin of victory sounds realistic.

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The NC State cross country teams are back in action this weekend, heading to Wisconsin for the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational Presented by Under Armour, as well as having select members participate in the ECU Pirate Invitational.

Both events will be held on Friday.

Annually one of the premier events in the nation, the Nuttycombe Invitational, held at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course in Madison, Wis., will feature an 8-kilometer men's race and a 6-kilometer women's race.

The event also includes "B" races for both men and women.

The women's B race will start at noon and the men's B race will start at 12:40 p.m. The women's A race will start at 1:20 p.m., followed by the men's A race at 2 p.m.

The No. 1 NC State women's team will be one of 20 top-25 teams participating in the event.

The Wolfpack women have won both events they've competed in this season, capturing the Adidas XC Challenge in Cary and the Joe Piane Invitational in South Bend., Ind. At the Joe Piane Invitational, junior Katelyn Tuohy set the course record with a winning time of 15:50 to help NC State get past the second-ranked New Mexico Lobs and sixth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide.
Tuohy won National and ACC honors of the week for her effort.

The NC State men's cross country team won the Adidas XC Challenge to open the season before taking ninth place at the Joe Piane Invitational.

https://gopack.com/news/2022/10/13/cross-country-nc-state-xc-closes-regular-season-with-pair-of-competitions-on-friday.aspx

The NC State XC team competes in Wisconsin and Greenville today.

Here are the live streams/results for the Nuttycombe Invitational.

Nuttycombe Live stream: https://t.co/1O5HW23F42

Nuttycombe results: https://t.co/SFj1q5RYqo#GoPack

— Pack Track & Field and Cross Country (@Wolfpack_TFXC) October 14, 2022

Women's B Race is in. We ran Shannon Sefton and Alyssa Hendrix in this race. Sefton finishes 34th in 21.43. Hendrix finishes 59th in 22:10.

jadawson said:

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Women's B Race is in. We ran Shannon Sefton and Alyssa Hendrix in this race. Sefton finishes 34th in 21.43. Hendrix finishes 59th in 22:10.

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thank you

Women's A Race has started. We are in first after 2K (6K total race).

Chmiel is running, she is #22. Starliper appears to be sitting this one out.

We have 66 points, NAU is closest with 131. UNC in third at 150. #2 New Mexico currently in fourth at 183.

For reference we have #1 Bush, #2 Seymour and #5 Tuohy.

At the 4K mark, we continue to lead, but New Mexico has closed the gap a bit moving in to second.

We have 2,6,13,23,35 for a total of 79
UNM has 17,19,22,33,39 for a total of 130.

2. Tuohy
6. Seymour
13. Chmiel
23. Bush
35. Howlett


Top 31 runners are bunched within 5 seconds, so obviously still open race in the last 2K.

Huge 2nd place for Kelsey (behind Katelyn, of course). Great to see her at that level. I kept my expectations at a minimum.
Bit of a disappointment for 4th and 5th, but putting Starliper back in the lineup will fix a lot of that.