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Sports News: Fall 2001

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

MORAVIAN WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RANKED 1ST IN NATION 
FOR FOURTH CONSECUTIVE WEEK

The Moravian College women's cross country team remained the top team in the nation for the fourth straight week in the NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Poll released Wednesday.

The Greyhounds, who have won four of five meets they have run in this season and they placed third at the Paul Short Invitational last Saturday, defeating two other schools ranked in the top 25 last week and one school ranked in the NCAA Division I Top 25.

Moravian has placed three of its top five runners in the top 25 of each race this season and all five have been in the top 50 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 four 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 will compete in the university division of the DeSales Invitational hosted by DeSales University on Saturday, October 13th.

Rank Team (first place votes) Region Points Last Week

1.

Moravian (PA) College (6)

Mideast

198

1

2.

Middlebury (VT) College (2)

Northeast

193

2

3.

Calvin (MI) College

Great Lakes

185

3

4.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Midwest

172

10

5.

Luther (IA) College

Central

166

5

6.

University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse

Midwest

158

4

7.

Wartburg (IA) College

Central

156

6

8.

Williams (MA) College

Northeast

146

8

9.

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Midwest

133

7

10.

The College of New Jersey

Atlantic

126

9

11.

Amherst (MA) College

Northeast

122

11

12.

Nebraska Wesleyan University

Central

103

13

13.

SUNY-Geneseo

Atlantic

102

12

T14.

Baldwin Wallace (OH) College

Great Lakes

94

14

T14.

Claremont-Mudd Scripps Colleges

West

94

17

16.

Ithaca (NY) College

Atlantic

72

T15

17.

Washington (MO) University

Midwest

70

T15

18.

Carleton (MN) College

Central

64

19

19.

Dickinson (PA) College

Mideast

57

21

T20.

Brandeis (MA) University

Northeast

36

18

T20.

Haverford (PA) College

Northeast

36

NR

22

Hamilton (NY) College

Atlantic

33

20

23.

Willamette (OR) University

West

32

22

24.

Emory (GA) University

South

19

NR

25.

St. Olaf (MN) College

Central

18

24

Others receiving votes:Trinity (CT) College (10); University of Puget Sound (2); St. Lawrence (NY) University (2); Bowdoin (ME) College (1).