Women's X/C Heads To Princeton Invitational on Friday

Saturday, October 19

Princeton, N.J.

10:45 AM (ET)

Rutgers University

Princeton Invitational

Photo by: Scott Bruhn

Women's X/C Heads To Princeton Invitational on Friday

Oct 18 | Women's Cross Country

Meet Information Live Results

Scarlet Knights Race in Final Tune-Up Before B1G Championships

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Fresh off the first place performance at the 2019 Metropolitan Championships, the Rutgers women's cross country team gets ready for its final tune-up before the Big Ten Championships with the short trip down Route 1 to race at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday.

ABOUT THE MEET

The women's 6K race gets underway at 10:45 a.m. at the West Windsor Fields.
The Scarlet Knights will be one of nearly 30 teams entered into the competition including 11 regionally ranked squads.
Among the entries are No. 1 Penn, No. 3 Princeton, No. 7 La Salle, No. 8 George Washington and No. 13 Delaware from the Mid-Atlantic Region, No. 2 Columbia, No. 10 Boston University, No. 13 Marist, No. 14 UConn and No. 15 Iona from the Northeast Region and No. 9 Alabama from the South Region.

LAST TIME OUT

Rutgers took the 2019 Metropolitan Cross Country Championship title scoring with three top 10 finishes and all seven entries among the top 25.
Junior Olympia Martin, who was named Big Ten Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week, led the Scarlet Knights with a runner-up performance and clocked in with a new PR of 18:19.5. The Ridgewood, New Jersey native was .4 seconds off the individual champion Sofia Camacho of Columbia. The top RU finisher for the eighth race in-a-row dating back to last season topped her previous best of 18:33 set at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown back on Sept. 22, 2017.
Senior Stephanie Mauer raced to a seventh place finish with a time of 18:58.9, also a new personal best. She bested her previous top 5K finish of 19:23 also set at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown in 2017.
Senior Lou Mialhe gave RU its third top 10 finish of the day crossing the finish line in eighth place with a time of 19:11.7. Her time was another RU personal best surpassing her previous best of 19:40.0 set at the 2017 running of the Metropolitan Championships.
Also scoring for the Scarlet Knights were seniors Emma Bergman (19:39.3) in 15^th place and Nadia Saponara (19:56.1).