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Tar Heels Head To Charlottesville For NCAA Southeast Regional
November 9, 2017 | Cross Country
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The University of North Carolina cross country teams will compete in the NCAA Southeast regional on Friday, Nov. 10 at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Va. The women's 6k final opens the competition at 10:30 a.m., followed by the men's 10k championship at 11 a.m.
The top-two finishing teams will advance to the NCAA Championships held one week later on Nov. 18 in Louisville, Ky. Additionally, the top-four individual finishers whose teams do not place in the top two will qualify for the NCAA Championship meet.
This is the first time Carolina has been to Charlottesville this season, but last raced the course in the NCAA Southeast Regional in 2016.
HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG
Live results will be available online at flashresults.com.
Fans can also follow @UNCTrack_Field on Twitter throughout the morning. A meet recap and results will be posted on GoHeels.com following the completion of competition.Â
THE FIELD
Women - App State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Charlotte, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Davidson, Duke, East Carolina, Eastern Kentucky (23), Elon, Furman (12), George Mason, High Point, James Madison, Kentucky, Liberty, Louisville, Morehead State, Murray State, NC State (5), North Carolina, Northern Kentucky, Redford, Richmond, South Carolina, UNCA, UNCG, USC Upstate, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, William & Mary, Winthrop, Wofford
Men - App State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Duke, East Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, Elon, Furman (7), George Mason, High Point, Kentucky, Liberty, Louisville, Morehead State, Murray State, NC State (23), Norfolk State, North Carolina, Northern Kentucky, Redford, Richmond, UNCA, UNCG, USC Upstate, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech (9), Wake Forest, William & Mary, Winthrop
TAR HEEL LINEUP
North Carolina Men - Jeremy Brown, Logan Carroll, Jake McEneaney, Brodie Modini, Mark Myers, Mitch Resor, and Matt Thornton.
North Carolina Women - Caroline Alcorta, Emma Astrike-Davis, Mady Clahane, Erin Edmundson, Casey Greenwalt, Morgan Ilse, Lindsey Lanier.
NCAA SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NOTES
• Top-25 finishers earn All-Region honors
• The top-two teams advance to the NCAA Championships held in Louisivlle, Ky., Nov. 18
• The top-four individual finishers whose teams do not finish in the top two will qualify for the NCAA Championship meet
• Caroline Alcorta earned All-Region honors in 2015 after finishing 14th at the Southeast Regional held in Charlottesville, Va. She narrowly missed earning All-Region honors her freshman year (2014) after finishing 26th at the regional meet held in Louisville, Ky.
• In 2016, the Tar Heel men finished 12th and the women finished 14th at the Southeast Regional held in Charlottesville, Va.
MORGAN ILSE AND CAROLINE ALCORTA NAMED ALL-ACC
Junior Morgan Ilse earned All-ACC honors for the second time in her career and Caroline Alcorta earned the distinction for the third time as the two finished 11th (20:26.3) and 12th (20:27.6), respectively, at the 2017 ACC Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Ky., on Oct. 27. The men's and women's squads both finished 11th in the meet.
The duo ran aggressively from the start, jumping out to the front at the gun and sticking with the lead pack through the first two kilometers. The leaders would eventually separate, but Alcorta, a native of Springfield, Va., and Ilse, a native of Dunwoody, Ga., stuck together and kept pushing one another down the stretch.
Jeremy Brown continued to lead the Tar Heels on the men's side as he finished 50th in 24:35.4.
ALCORTA NAMED ACC PERFORMER OF THE WEEK
North Carolina's Caroline Alcorta was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Cross Country Performer of the Week on Oct. 18.
Alcorta, a senior from Springfield, Va., finished fourth out of 177 runners in a field that included four ranked teams at the Penn State National on Oct. 13. She notched a 6k personal best of 20:26 in what was just her second meet of the season.
Alcorta has racked up honors from the conference throughout her career. She was named the performer of the week in 2016 after winning the Adidas XC 5k Challenge with a time of 16:42.4, she was All-ACC in 2015 after finishing 12th at the ACC Cross Country Championships and she was named ACC Freshman of the Year in 2014 after helping lead the Tar Heels to their first ACC Championship in 11 seasons where she finished 17th.Â
PENN STATE NATIONAL RECAP
Caroline Alcorta and Morgan Ilse finished four-five out of 177 runners at the Penn State National on Oct. 13 in State College, Pa. Both had 6k personal bests on the day with Alcorta finishing in 20:26 and Ilse right behind in 20:29. They led the University of North Carolina women's cross country team to a 9th-place finish out of 17 teams. The men's squad also finished 9th out of 14 teams.Â
In the final regular-season meet, both Alcorta and Ilse looked to be nearing peak form just two weeks out of the ACC Championships. It was Ilse's second-straight top-10 finish in a nationally-competitive meet, and Alcorta looked to be in the best shape of her career since finishing All-ACC and All-Region in 2015.Â
Jeremy Brown was the top finisher for the men in 32nd with a time of 26:11.Â
LOUISVILLE CLASSIC RECAP
Morgan Ilse finished ninth out of 328 runners in 16:51.17 at the Louisville Classic on Sept. 30 in Louisville, Ky., a race billed as the nation's largest cross country meet. Ilse helped the University of North Carolina women's cross country team to a 14th-place finish out of 37 teams. The men's squad finished 15th out of 30 teams.
The meet lived up to the billing with 328 runners competing in the women's 5k race and 262 running in the men's 8k.
Caroline Alcorta made her season debut in the race, finishing 33rd in 17:18.07. However, it was Morgan Ilse who stole the show with a 40-second 5k personal best and a top-10 finish in one of the nation's most competitive regular-season races of the season. Ilse won the Mountains to Sea Open two weeks prior, leading the Tar Heels to a team victory in the meet.
On the men's side, Jeremy Brown led the Tar Heels, finishing in 72nd with a time of 24:50.20.
MITCH RESOR NAMED ACC FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK
North Carolina's Mitch Resor was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Cross Country Freshman of the Week on Sept. 20th.
Resor, a redshirt freshman from Charlotte, N.C., had his second top-five finish in as many meets as he led the Tar Heels to a 49-point victory in the Mountains to Sea Open on Sept. 16 He finished the 8k race in 25:33.61, taking second place. In his first meet, Resor finished fifth in 18:30 at the Elon Opener, and in both meets Resor was the top Tar Heel finisher.Â
Resor is the first Tar Heel to earn the award, now in its second year.Â
MOUNTAINS TO SEA OPEN RECAP
The University of North Carolina men's and women's cross country teams each claimed impressive top finishes at the Mountains to Sea Open in Boone, N.C., on Sept. 16. The men won by 49 points, and the women won by 33 points.
The Tar Heel women were led by junior Morgan Ilse, who won the 5k meet with a time of 17:13.61 in her first time racing this season. Redshirt freshmen Mitch Resor, Jeremy Brown and Mark Myers went 2-3-4 in the 8k race, helping the men to an easy victory in their last local meet before facing national competition at the Louisville Classic in two weeks.Â
Resor finished in 25:33.61, Brown finished just a second behind in 25:34.64 and Myers finished in 25:36.12. Veteran Logan Carroll took eighth in 25:43.48, and Matt Thornton completed the dominate win as he finished ninth in 25:44.40.
ELON OPENER RECAP
The University of North Carolina men's and women's cross country teams finished second at the Elon Opener in Elon, N.C., on Sept. 2. The men faced a talented Campbell team but were able to run a controlled race, and the women showed their ability despite competing without their top two runners, Caroline Alcorta and Morgan Ilse.Â
Mitch Resor, a sophomore from Charlotte, N.C., led Carolina in his first cross country meet as a Tar Heel, running 18:30 and finishing 5th in the 6k race. Junior Logan Carroll (Gig Harbor, Wash.), sophomore Brandon Tubby (Hillsborough, N.J.) and sophomore Alex Milligan (State College, Pa.) all finished just behind Resor to take seventh, eighth and ninth places. Carroll ran 18:45, Tubby finished in 18:53 and Milligan ran 18:56. Sophomore Matt Thornton (Cary, N.C.) rounded out the scoring for the Tar Heels, finishing 12th in 19:06.Â
On the women's side, Mady Clahane, a sophomore from Mechanicsburg, Pa., finished fifth in 14:57 to lead the Tar Heels in the 4k race.Â
