November 2009
5 posts
Cross Country--Aaron Wood
The Buffalo Nation was in full force this past weekend at Montreat College for the AAC Conference Championships. With all the accolades we received it’s hard to call our performance anything else but a success.
We were treated to the local Asheville hot-spot of Mellow Mushroom the night before for dinner. There is nothing like a lot of pizza, water and a great time with the entire team the night...
Cross Country--Catie McMahon
This past weekend, Milligan ran at Montreat College in North Carolina at the Appalachian Athletic Conference. We traveled to the Montreat campus to look at course on Friday, but found out that we actually needed to be on Black Mountain campus. Coach asked five different people where the athletic fields were and no one knew what he was talking about! Luckily a security guard rescued us and...
Cross Country--Lauren Hubbard
This past weekend the Cross Country team had the special chance to experience the life of an elite runner by going to ZAP Fitness. Nestled in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, ZAP Fitness is a training center for post-collegiate and even Olympic hopeful runners. Acceptance to the center is dependent on running times and an interview—the remote lifestyle requires extreme dedication and is...
Cross Country--Catie McMahon
The annual Black and Orange Dual Meet was held on Monday October 26, 2009. At this 3k race, Coach Layne divided us into two teams, one black and one orange, and we raced each other. It was held down on the loop in perfect running weather and we had a lot of great support from family, friends, and professors there!
Shanna Raines, Lili Zaldana, Heather Exline, Elsa Figueroa, and Danielle...
Cross Country--Aaron Wood
We have had a couple great weeks here on campus; I hope you can say the same. The Black vs. Orange dual meet was a great change of pace for all of the men. After racing so many 8k’s we were ecstatic about the idea of only having to run a 5k. For guys like me, this 5k would be the only chance of the year to run an official 5k all year. The race was initially supposed to be run on Tuesday, but due...