Sports News: Fall 2001

Wednesday, October 17, 2001

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

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

The Greyhounds, who have won five of six meets they have run in this season and they won the DeSales University Invitational last Saturday, defeating two other schools ranked in the top 25 last week.

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, the NYU Invitational and the DeSales Invitational.  Kim Jaick (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh HS) won the Lehigh Valley Championship and has been second for the Greyhounds in four of the other five races.  The other seniors are Emily Shertzer (Hummelstown, PA/Lower Dauphin HS) and Erin Boyle (Philadelphia, PA/Nazareth Academy HS), who was second for the squad last weekend.  Moravian's other top finisher has been freshman Chelsea Mullins (Jim Thorpe, PA/Jim Thorpe HS).

The Greyhounds will be off this week as the team prepares to win its ninth straight Middle Atlantic Conference title on October 27th at Messiah College.

NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Poll, Released October 17, 2001

Rank Team (first place votes) Region Points Last Week

1.

Moravian (PA) College (5)

Mideast

197

1

2.

Middlebury (VT) College (3)

Northeast

195

2

3.

Calvin (MI) College

Great Lakes

184

3

4.

University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse

Midwest

174

6

5.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Midwest

166

4

6.

Wartburg (IA) College

Central

164

7

7.

Luther (IA) College

Central

149

5

8.

Williams (MA) College

Northeast

147

8

9.

Amherst (MA) College

Northeast

121

11

10.

Nebraska Wesleyan University

Central

114

12

T11.

Dickinson (PA) College

Mideast

109

19

T11.

Claremont-Mudd Scripps Colleges

West

109

T14

13.

Baldwin Wallace (OH) College

Great Lakes

108

T14

14.

The College of New Jersey

Atlantic

105

10

15.

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Midwest

103

9

16.

SUNY-Geneseo

Atlantic

89

13

17.

Washington (MO) University

Midwest

66

17

18.

Ithaca (NY) College

Atlantic

65

16

19.

Haverford (PA) College

Northeast

57

T20

20

Hamilton (NY) College

Atlantic

37

22

21.

Carleton (MN) College

Central

34

18

22.

Emory (GA) University

South

28

24

23.

Willamette (OR) University

West

24

23

T24.

Trinity (CT) College

Northeast

18

NR

T24.

St. Olaf (MN) College

Central

18

25

Others receiving votes: Allegheny (PA) College (11); Brandeis (MA) University (4); University of Puget Sound (2); Bowdoin (ME) College (4)