Moravian College Athletics

Sports News: Fall 2001

Wednesday, September 26, 2001

MORAVIAN WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RANKED 1st IN NATION
FOR 2nd CONSECUTIVE WEEK

BETHLEHEM, PA --- the Moravian College women's cross country team remained the top team in the nation in this week's NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Poll released Wednesday.

The Greyhounds, who have won all four invitationals they have run in this season, won the New York University Invitational last Saturday and defeated four other schools ranked in the top 25 this week.

Moravian has placed three of its top five runners in the top ten of each race this season and all five have been in the top 35 of each event. The four top finishers have all been seniors led by Heidi Wolfsberger (Moosic, PA/Riverside HS), who won the Kutztown Invitational to open the season and the NYU Invitational. Kim Jaick (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh HS) won the Lehigh Valley Championship and has been second for the Greyhounds in the other three races. The other seniors are Emily Shertzer (Hummelstown, PA/Lower Dauphin HS) and Erin Boyle (Philadelphia, PA/Nazareth Academy HS). Moravian's other top finisher has been freshman Chelsea Mullins (Jim Thorpe, PA/Jim Thorpe HS).

The Greyhounds are off until they compete in the Paul Short Invitational hosted by Lehigh University on Saturday, October 6th.

NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Poll, Released September 26, 2001

Rank	Team (first place votes)	Region	Points	Last Week
1.	Moravian (PA) College (8)	Mideast	200	1
2.	Middlebury (VT) College	Northeast	192	2
3.	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	Midwest	181	3
4.	Calvin (MI) College	Great Lakes	175	5
5.	Luther (IA) College	Central	172	4
6.	University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse	Midwest	157	8
7.	University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point	Midwest	138	10
8.	Wartburg (IA) College	Central	131	9
9.	The College of New Jersey	Atlantic	130	18
10.	Williams (MA) College	Northeast	126	11
11.	SUNY-Geneseo	Atlantic	120	7
12.	Amherst (MA) College	Northeast	109	T12
T13.	Baldwin Wallace (OH) College	Great Lakes	102	T12
T13.	Ithaca (NY) College	Atlantic	102	6
15.	Nebraska Wesleyan University	Central	99	14
16.	Claremont-Mudd Scripps Colleges	West	65	16
17.	Brandeis (MA) University	Northeast	64	21
18	Hamilton (NY) College	Atlantic	63	15
19.	Carleton (MN) College	Central	46	20
20.	Dickinson (PA) College	Mideast	43	19
21.	University of Chicago	Midwest	41	T24
22.	Willamette (OR) University	West	38	NR
23.	Bowdoin (ME) College	Northeast	28	NR
24.	Washington (MO) University	Midwest	19	22
25.	Allegheny (PA) College	Mideast	14	NR

Others receiving votes: Connecticut College (13), Wheaton (IL) College (13), Trinity (CT) College (11), Emory (GA) University (9), Elmhurst (IL) College (1)