Women's Cross Country to Compete at Penn State Friday, Gettysburg Saturday

Friday, October 12

University Park, Pa.

10:45 a.m.

Bucknell University

Penn State National Open

Photo by: Marc Hagemeier

Women's Cross Country to Compete at Penn State Friday, Gettysburg Saturday

10/11/2018 11:44:00 AM | Women's Cross Country

The Penn State National Open Includes Five Nationally-Ranked Teams

Setting the Scene
(Friday, Oct. 12 – 10:45 a.m.)
What: Penn State National Open
Where: Blue-White Golf Course (University Park, Pa.) – 6k
Bucknell Runners: Nora Bennett, Ashley Blair, Colleen Buckley, Payton Capes, Emily Deschler, Emma Dolen, Jenna Farmer, Lauren Hazzard, Madeleine Hunt, Christine O'Kane, Margaret Thomson

(Saturday, Oct. 13 – 11:30 a.m.)
What: Gettysburg Invitational
Where: Gettysburg College Cross Country Course (Gettysburg, Pa.) – 6k
Bucknell Runners – Sarah Bain, Hope Beyer, Kelsey Bordash, Anna Chiodo-Ortiz, Olivia Dyer, Jamie Falla, Lauren Gronbeck, Samantha Killiany, Lucie Kubinski, Madison Narr, Morgan Price, Ashley Ramos, Kaitlin Ryan, Tia Tardy, Tabitha Wismer

About the Bison
• Bucknell will send 11 runners to the Penn State National Open on Friday and 15 runners to the Gettysburg Invitational on Saturday.
• The Bison took 10th out of 17 teams at the Penn State National Open last season, finishing ahead of Buffalo, William & Mary, Akron, Lehigh, UC Davis, Kent State, and Loyola (Md.).
• Colleen Buckley finished 24^th out of 177 runners. Other current members of the team to finish in the top 100 were Jenna Farmer (58^th), Margaret Thomson (87^th), and Lauren Gronbeck (98^th).
• Bucknell last competed at the Gettysburg Invitational in 2014. The Bison won the team title.
• The Bison's last competition was the Paul Short Run on Sept. 29. Jenna Farmer was the team's top runner in 69th.

About the Penn State National Open
• The participating teams are Akron, Boston College, Brown, Bucknell, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duquesne, Eastern Kentucky, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Iona, James Madison, Kentucky, Lehigh, Loyola, Michigan State, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio University, Penn, Penn State, Pitt, Princeton, Rutgers, Utah, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia.
• The field will include five nationally-ranked teams – No. 14 Michigan State, No. 19 Penn State, No. 26 Georgia Tech, No. 27 Utah, No. 29 Princeton. Additionally, Dartmouth and Georgetown are receiving votes in the national poll.
• Penn State won the team title last year. Villanova's Bella Burda was the individual champion.

Bucknell Head Coach Kevin Donner Quotes
• On Penn State – "This meet may be one of the most competitive regular season meets we have ever been to, and we are excited to see how we handle this type of pressure. We are running our top 11, so this will also determine our league roster."
• On Gettysburg – "This is a great opportunity for our developmental runners to get some valuable experience on a course similar to our league course, and some of these runners will be trying to make the league roster."

Up Next
• Bucknell will host the Bison Tuneup on Friday, Oct. 19.