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2009ACC Cross Country Championships 2009 Results - ACC Cross Country Championships
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2009 Results ACC Championships official site CARY, N.C. - With six of the top 23 runners in the field, NC State won the Atlantic Coast Conference cross country championship Saturday, edging two-time defending champion Virginia for the men’s title. Florida State, meanwhile, placed seven runners in the top 20 and rolled to the women’s team championship over runner-up Duke. Virginia’s Emil Heineking won the individual championship in the men’s race, running the 8K course at the Wake Med Soccer and Cross Country Complex in a time of 23:15.49. Cavalier teammate Ryan Collins was second at 23:17.74. Two-time defending women’s champion Susan Kuijken was an easy repeat winner, running the 6K course in a time of 19:39.3. NC State, which won its 14th men’s championship and its 11th in the last 15 years, was paced by senior John Martinez and sophomore Ryan Hill, who ran third and fourth, respectively. Redshirt-freshman Patrick Campbell placed eighth for the Wolfpack, which won the championship with a team score of 56 points.
In winning its third straight ACC championship, Florida State thoroughly dominated the women’s race. In addition to Kuijken, junior Pilar McShine was third (20:06.4), junior Pasca Cheruiyot was sixth (20:16.6), sophomore Jennifer Dunn was 13th (20:37.8) and freshman Jessica Perry was 14th (20:40.7), giving the Seminoles five runners on the all-conference team. FSU won with a team score of 37 points, easily outdistancing runner-up Duke (71 points) and third-place Virginia (84). NC State finished fourth in the women’s race with 109 points, followed by North Carolina (5th, 137 points), Boston College (6th, 144), Maryland (7th, 192), Wake Forest (8th, 204), Clemson (9th, 221), Virginia Tech (10th, 284), Georgia Tech (11th, 312) and Miami (12th, 380). The men’s race was one of the closest in the history of the event. Heineking and Collins were well-ahead of the Wolfpack’s Martinez and Hill, but the field was tightly bunched after that. NC State won thanks in large part to its fourth, fifth and sixth runners finishing ahead of Virginia’s fourth-place finisher. Florida State’s Matt Leeder finished fifth at 23:33.66. Duke’s Bo Waggoner was sixth (23:34.04), Virginia Tech’s Will Mulherin seventh (23:34.36), NC State’s Patrick Campbell eighth (23:35.03), FSU’s Daniel Roberts (23:36.37) and Ciaran Olionaird (23:38.80) ninth and 10th, respectively. The biggest suspense in the women’s race turned out to be Kuijken’s final margin of victory. She eased across the finish line a full 16 seconds ahead of runner-up Catherine White of Virginia, who ran the course in an impressive time of 19:55.9. FSU’s McShine was third at 20:06.4, 11 seconds behind White. FSU’s top seven runners all finished in the top 20. Morgane Gay of Virginia took fourth at 20:06.6, with Duke’s Carly Seymour (20:14.8), Florida State’s Pasca Cheruiyot (20:18.6), NC State’s Emily Pritt (20:22.9), North Carolina’s Ashley Verplank (20:23.4), Clemson’s Kim Ruck (20:26.1) and Duke’s Juliet Bottorff (20:34.6) rounding out the top 10. Florida State’s Wes Rickman was men’s ACC Rookie of the Year after running the men’s race in a time of 24:16.16. He was the top true freshman in the race, finishing 24th. In the women’s race, Duke’s Bottorff was women’s ACC Rookie of the Year.
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