Top men and women collegiate cross-country runners are scheduled to run this Saturday in the 2002 Pacific-10 Conference Championships. The meet, hosted by UCLA, will be held at the Brookside Country Club in Pasadena, adjacent to the Rose Bowl. Scheduled to run for the UCLA women’s team are juniors Lena Nilsson, Valerie Flores and Melissa […]
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Cross country teams step up
The UCLA men’s cross country team had a new member compete last Friday at the CS Fullerton Titan Invitational. Freshman Mohammed Qazi, in his first meet for the Bruins, led the team with a third place finish. Qazi joined the team two weeks ago as a walk-on. His performance, along with sophomore Reggie Oronoz’s ninth […]
Bruins use meets as prep for Pac-10 championships
The UCLA women’s cross country team placed ninth Saturday at the NCAA preview in Terre Haute, Indiana. Despite the ninth-place finish, there was a bright spot for the Bruins ““ junior Lena Nilsson. In her cross country debut, Nilsson placed ninth overall, setting a school record with a time of 20:28.2 on the 6000-meter course. […]
Both squads take home first place finish
The UCLA men and women’s cross country teams returned victorious from the Triton Cross Country Invitational, ran this past Saturday in La Jolla. Both teams took first in the invitational, competing against 29 other schools and a total of 518 runners. The women took first place despite sitting out their top four runners from the […]
Team young, but filled with high expectations
The UCLA cross-country squads started the 2002 season off with high hopes, great races and tons of team spirit. Saturday, Aug. 31, both the men’s and women’s teams competed in the Cal State Fullerton “Season Opener” Cross-Country event held at Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Brea. The meet consisted of seventeen different schools, with 142 […]