Moravian College Athletics

Sports News: Fall 2001

Wednesday, October 3, 2001

MORAVIAN WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RANKED 1^ST IN NATION
FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK

BETHLEHEM, PA --- The Moravian College women's cross country team remained the top team in the nation again this week in the 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 last 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 will compete in the university division of the Paul Short Invitational hosted by Lehigh University on Saturday, October 6^th.

Rank	Team (first place votes)	Region	Points	Last Week
1.	Moravian (PA) College (5)	Mideast	173	1
2.	Middlebury (VT) College (2)	Northeast	169	2
3.	Calvin (MI) College	Great Lakes	161	4
4.	University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse	Midwest	151	6
5.	Luther (IA) College	Central	149	5
6.	Wartburg (IA) College	Central	139	8
7.	University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point	Midwest	130	7
8.	Williams (MA) College	Northeast	126	10
9.	The College of New Jersey	Atlantic	119	9
10.	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	Midwest	115	3
11.	Amherst (MA) College	Northeast	95	12
12.	SUNY-Geneseo	Atlantic	93	11
13.	Nebraska Wesleyan University	Central	91	15
14.	Baldwin Wallace (OH) College	Great Lakes	79	T13
T15.	Ithaca (NY) College	Atlantic	68	T13
T15.	Washington (MO) University	Midwest	68	24
17.	Claremont-Mudd Scripps Colleges	West	59	16
18.	Brandeis (MA) University	Northeast	58	17
19.	Carleton (MN) College	Central	57	19
20	Hamilton (NY) College	Atlantic	40	18
21.	Dickinson (PA) College	Mideast	35	20
22.	Willamette (OR) University	West	33	22
23.	Bowdoin (ME) College	Northeast	19	23
24.	St. Olaf (MN) College	Central	14	NR
25.	Connecticut College	Northeast	8	NR

Others receiving votes: Emory (GA) University (6); Allegheny (PA) College 5; University of Puget Sound (5); Elmhurst (IL) College (3); University of Chicago (2), Trinity (CT) College (2); DePauw (IN) College (2); Haverford (PA) College (1).