Saturday, October 1
Louisville, Ky.
Mercer University
vs
Live in Lou Cross Country Classic
School Record, Season Best Performances in the Bluegrass State
10/1/2022 4:04:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country, Athletics Department
Bears had several with personal-best performances
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Bears had a successful showing at the Live in Lou Cross Country Classic, highlighted by a school record team average performance, individual school record, and several personal best performances.
See the full results here.
In the men's race, Vlad Zander-Velloso covered the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park 8000-meter course in an individual school record time of 24:41, a personal best performance by 40 seconds. He led the Bears with his 83rd place finish out of 301 finishers to a school record team average performance of 25:21. Following close behind was sophomore Jonathan Greene, who moved up 50 positions from the 2.1K split to finish to place 127th. His time of 24:59 was a personal record by 60 seconds and was 3rd fastest all time for Mercer. Other highlighting performances were Reece Cato (25:23), Zack Burke (26:10) Yianni Pothoulakis (26:14), and Chinmay Dongari (26:30) who all raced to personal best times to close out the scoring for the Bears. The team finished 27th out of 31 teams in the field of national caliber programs.
In the Women's Blue Race, Mercer finished in 16th out of 47 teams to surge past regional competition to a season's best team average time of 19:17. The time surpassed the Bears previous season best time of 19:39 from the Julius Johnson Invitational home meet. The Bears were led once again by Brianna Teegarden to make this her 3rd time this season at the front for the Bears in a time of 18:51. Her 63rd place finish was also a personal record time. Coming in shortly after in 87th was Giulia Giorgi in a personal time of 19:03, to lower her best time by over 30 seconds. The tight pack of Laney Doster (19:22), Leah Pfaff (19:32) and Iris Porter (19:38) closed out the scoring for the Bears.
"It is hard to be disappointed when you get a team record performance, an individual school record run, and a season's best team performance. We came up to Louisville to get exposure to some of our conference and region competition that we will see again at the championship time of year and are satisfied with our result but know we could have done a little more. We don't expect to be at our best just yet though and we got some valuable experience that we look forward to bringing out for championship season." remarked Head Coach Josh Hayman.
Up Next
The Bears gear up for its final regular season competition as Mercer heads to Spartanburg, SC for the USC Upstate Invitational on October 15th.
In the men's race, Vlad Zander-Velloso covered the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park 8000-meter course in an individual school record time of 24:41, a personal best performance by 40 seconds. He led the Bears with his 83rd place finish out of 301 finishers to a school record team average performance of 25:21. Following close behind was sophomore Jonathan Greene, who moved up 50 positions from the 2.1K split to finish to place 127th. His time of 24:59 was a personal record by 60 seconds and was 3rd fastest all time for Mercer. Other highlighting performances were Reece Cato (25:23), Zack Burke (26:10) Yianni Pothoulakis (26:14), and Chinmay Dongari (26:30) who all raced to personal best times to close out the scoring for the Bears. The team finished 27th out of 31 teams in the field of national caliber programs.
In the Women's Blue Race, Mercer finished in 16th out of 47 teams to surge past regional competition to a season's best team average time of 19:17. The time surpassed the Bears previous season best time of 19:39 from the Julius Johnson Invitational home meet. The Bears were led once again by Brianna Teegarden to make this her 3rd time this season at the front for the Bears in a time of 18:51. Her 63rd place finish was also a personal record time. Coming in shortly after in 87th was Giulia Giorgi in a personal time of 19:03, to lower her best time by over 30 seconds. The tight pack of Laney Doster (19:22), Leah Pfaff (19:32) and Iris Porter (19:38) closed out the scoring for the Bears.
"It is hard to be disappointed when you get a team record performance, an individual school record run, and a season's best team performance. We came up to Louisville to get exposure to some of our conference and region competition that we will see again at the championship time of year and are satisfied with our result but know we could have done a little more. We don't expect to be at our best just yet though and we got some valuable experience that we look forward to bringing out for championship season." remarked Head Coach Josh Hayman.
Up Next
The Bears gear up for its final regular season competition as Mercer heads to Spartanburg, SC for the USC Upstate Invitational on October 15th.
Players Mentioned
/ Men's Cross Country
/ Men's Cross Country
/ Women's Cross Country
/ Women's Cross Country
/ Men's Cross Country
/ Women's Cross Country
/ Women's Cross Country
/ Women's Cross Country
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