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Cowboys Finish 16th At NCAA Cross Country Championships
November 22, 1999 | Cowboy Cross Country & Track
Nov. 22, 1999
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Chuck Sloan finally received the honor that was missing from his trophy case - an All-America award in cross country.
Sloan, who had won All-America honors in both indoor and outdoor track (distance medley relay once and 3,000-meter steeplechase twice), finished the NCAA Championships in 43rd place here at the IU Golf Course today.
His time of 31:23.00 in the 10-kilometer race was less than one minute, 17 seconds off the pace set by champion South Alabama's David Kimani. The top 44 runners of the 248 that competed at the meet received All-America honors.
"He went out fine in the beginning, and he moved up at the 5,000-meter mark," OSU coach Dick Weis said. "But he started going too fast and ran out of gas. He got All-America status, and you can't complain about that."
The Cowboys finished 16th as a team in their seventh straight appearance at the national meet. Arkansas won the team honors, while Wisconsin finished second.
"It was outstanding," Weis said. "This was not the most talented team in the past seven years, but it was one that never gave up. During those seven years, we have never finished worse that 16th. We finished 16th at the beginning of the seven years too. I'm happy for what we've done.
"This is a real credit to a great bunch of kids who worked hard and overcame a lot of adversity. This rivals the year when we finished fourth here (1996). It's fantastic."
Jerry Rainey, who was the second Cowboy to cross the finish line, completed the race in 21:55.60, good enough for 84th place.
"Jerry did a tremendous job," Weis said. "It was his best race here at OSU. They all did well."
This was the last meet for the Cowboys this season. OSU will lose only Sloan for next year's team. All members of the cross country team will compete on OSU's track and field team as well. The indoor season begins January 2000.
"I'm really excited for the kids," Weis said. "We will return six of the seven runners to the team next year. We should be back up where we belong - in the top seven or eight."
Team Results
| 1. | Arkansas | 58 |
| 2. | Wisconsin | 185 |
| 3. | NC State | 201 |
| 4. | Stanford | 223 |
| 5. | Michigan | 282 |
| 6. | Oregon | 306 |
| 7. | Colorado | 307 |
| 8. | Notre Dame | 312 |
| 9. | Iona | 338 |
| 10. | Arizona | 346 |
| 11. | Georgetown | 354 |
| 12. | Northern Arizona | 370 |
| 13. | William & Mary | 371 |
| 14. | Arizona State | 391 |
| 15. | Minnesota | 392 |
| 16. | Oklahoma State | 419 |
| 17. | Villanova | 424 |
| 18. | Weber State | 450 |
| 19. | Providence | 458 |
| Princeton | 458 | |
| 21. | Southern Utah | 466 |
| 22. | Texas A&M | 487 |
| 23. | Alabama | 501 |
| 24. | Dartmouth | 502 |
| 25. | South Florida | 517 |
| 26. | Portland | 535 |
| 27. | James Madison | 544 |
| 28. | Missouri | 556 |
| 29. | Cal Poly | 607 |
| 30. | Brigham Young | 717 |
| 31. | Rice | 824 |
OSU Results
| 43. | Chuck Sloan | 31:23.00 |
| 84. | Jerry Rainey | 31:55.60 |
| 126. | Bruce Wright | 32:23.70 |
| 130. | Ben Lake | 32:27.20 |
| 149. | Junior Vasquez | 32:40.90 |
| 200. | Staffan Stegmark | 33:27.50 |
| 233. | Trey Vernon | 34:26.90 |
