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November 18, 2012

Women's cross country takes fifth at NCAA Championship meet

BY JOHN LYNCH

There is only one word to describe Michigan head coach Mike McGuire’s 21-year tenure with the women’s cross country team: dominant.

November 18, 2012

Wolverines struggle, place 23rd at Nationals

BY NATE SELL

Three years. Four seconds. Both explain what separated senior Dan Lowry and freshman Tony Smoragiewicz on Saturday. Lowry stepped to the starting line at NCAA Nationals for the Michigan men’s cross country team in Louisville, Ky. feeling a little under the weather, but not ready to use it as an excuse.

November 11, 2012

Smith leads Wolverines to second-straight Regional title

BY JOHN LYNCH

After finishing third for the No. 6 Michigan women’s cross country team at the Big Ten Championships last week, senior Jillian Smith was determined to make more of a statement in this week’s NCAA Great Lakes Regional race.

November 09, 2012

Wolverines earn Nationals bid at Regionals

BY NATE SELL

In a span of 20 days, the men’s cross country team participates in what it call its “championship season.”
This span includes the Big Ten Championships, Regionals and Nationals. On Friday, coming off their second-place finish at the conference championship, the Wolverines were able to secure one of the two automatic Nationals bids at the Great Lakes Regional in Madison.

October 31, 2012

Beams and Rayyan: From walk-ons to co-captains

BY NATE SELL

Three years later, juniors Mark Beams and Morsi Rayyan are still side by side and have become the driving force of the Michigan cross country team.

October 28, 2012

Lowry leads Wolverines at the Big Ten Championships

BY NATE SELL

EAST LANSING — If linemen and Brady Hoke are tough because they never wearing sleeves, so are the men’s cross country runners who fearlessly stripped down to their normal uniform of short shorts and tank tops as spectators stood shivering in their coats Sunday.

October 22, 2012

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Pasternak ends season on top in EMU Fall Classic

BY JOHN LYNCH

Anna Pasternak went into the EMU Fall Classic on Friday knowing that it would be the last race of her season. As the 10th runner on the No. 7 Michigan women’s cross country team, Pasternak just missed the nine-person varsity lineup for next week’s Big Ten Championship.

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