Women’s Cross Country: Ohio Northern (10-0 Overall) at All-Ohio Championships and Rochester (N.Y.) Invitational

September 15, 2022

Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, 8:25 p.m. – Elvin R. King Cross Country Course, Cedarville, Ohio

Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, 11 a.m. – Genesee Valley Park, Rochester, N.Y.

Weekend Preview: The Ohio Northern women's cross country team is competing as a split squad on Friday and Saturday … Junior varsity team members will run at the All-Ohio Championships on Friday … The women's 5k begins at 8:25 p.m. … The race is being held under the lights for the first time in its history … The meet will be scored four different ways: overall, NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II/NAIA and NCAA Division III … ONU's varsity runners will compete at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Yellowjacket Invitational on Saturday … The women's 6k begins at 11 a.m. … The Polar Bears are ranked No. 32 nationally in this week's USTFCCCA Division III poll after earning a No. 33 ranking in the preseason poll … Northern is ranked No. 4 in the Great Lakes Region … The Polar Bears have won each of their first two meets of the season and are coming off Saturday's Wittenberg Invitational … ONU placed first of 10 teams at the Wittenberg Invitational, scoring 40 points … Fifth-year senior Tessa Pitcovich led a group of four Polar Bears who finished in the top 10 at the 6k race … Pitcovich finished with a time of 23:31 … Junior Olesya Mertz was sixth in a career-best time of 23:50, freshman Kennedy Rader was seventh in 23:59, and junior Megan Vapenik was ninth in 24:23.

Head Coach Jason Maus: Maus is in his 14th year as head coach of the ONU men's and women's cross country teams and is the winningest coach in school history for both programs … Over 13 seasons at ONU, he has guided the men's team to a 1,280-334 record, a winning percentage of .793, and four OAC titles and the women's team to a 1,079-449 record, a winning percentage of .706, and three OAC championships.