Kentucky Cross Country to Compete in North Alabama Showcase

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The Kentucky males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups will face a big subject of opponents once they journey to Huntsville, Ala., for the North Alabama Showcase on Friday.

Held at John Hunt Park, the boys’s crew will run an 8,000-meter race starting at 8:30 a.m. EDT (7:30 Central time in Huntsville), whereas the ladies will toe the road for a 5K race that begins at 9:15 a.m. EDT (8:15 a.m. Central time in Huntsville). The Kentucky males can be amongst 37 groups competing within the occasion, whereas the Wildcat girls face a good bigger subject that totals 44 groups.

UK assistant coach Hakon DeVries is dealing with coaching and technique for an additional season with the cross nation and distance runners.  He sees the problem of his runners navigating the variety of opponents.

“That is our first bigger invitational meet, which is able to give us a great alternative to work on our crew pack operating,” DeVries mentioned. “The course may be very huge, in order that helps just a little. If we will assert ourselves early within the race, that additionally would assist (keep away from the site visitors).”

“Yearly is a brand new group, new crew and we hope to make use of this meet to begin constructing momentum to undergo the season.”

Race outcomes can be posted right here.

Following this occasion, the following meet for UK will come Sept. 24 on the Cowboy Jamboree, hosted by Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla.

Males’s Workforce Outlook
Ten males are slated to run within the meet – Dylan Allen, Jake Allen, Miles Brush, Blake Byer, Cade Byer, McLean Griffin, Alex Justus, Harper Moore, Jackson Watts and Aaron Withrow.  Jake Allen, Moore and Withrow return from the UK squad that completed sixth ultimately 12 months’s Southeastern Convention Championship.

The Wildcats are projected to complete fifth within the league within the SEC 2022 coaches’ preseason ballot.

Ladies’s Workforce Outlook
Much like the boys’s crew, the Wildcat girls return loads of expertise this season. Friday’s lineup of 13 Wildcats consists of Maggie Aydt, Perri Bockrath, Tori Herman, Kaylie Kenne, Ally Kruger, Bryanna Lucas, DeAnna Martin, Phoebe McCowan, Natalie Molotky, Mollie Roden, Jenna Schwinghamer, Sydney Steely and Julz Williams.  Bockrath and Herman helped the Cats end fourth ultimately 12 months’s SEC meet, highlighted by Herman’s fifth-place particular person end.

Within the SEC’s 2022 preseason ballot, Kentucky is projected to complete fifth within the league.

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