Carolina Set For NCAA XC Southeast Regional

Friday, November 9

Rock Hill, S.C.

Women - 11 A.M. | Men - 12 P.M.

North Carolina

NCAA Southeast Regional

Photo by: Tom Connelly

November 7, 2018 | Cross Country

Regional Meet Notes Live Stats

ROCK HILL, S.C. - The University of North Carolina cross country teams will compete in the NCAA Southeast regional on Friday, Nov. 9 at the Winthrop University Recreation Complex in Rock Hill, S.C. The women's 6k final opens the competition at 11 a.m., followed by the men's 10k championship at 12 p.m. noon.

The top-two finishing teams will advance to the NCAA Championships held one week later on Nov. 17 in Madison, Wis. Additionally, the top-four individual finishers whose teams do not place in the top two will qualify for the NCAA Championship meet.

The Tar Heels will face a new challenge in the regional competition as the last three NCAA Southeast Regional meets have been held at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Va.

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.

THE FIELD
Women - App State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Charlotte, Citadel, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Davidson, Duke, East Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, Elon, Furman (#16), Gardner-Webb, George Mason, High Point, James Madison, Kentucky, Liberty, Longwood, Louisville, Morehead State, NC State (#11), North Carolina, Northern Kentucky, Presbyterian, Radford, Richmond, South Carolina, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Greensboro, USC Upstate, VCU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Western Carolina, William & Mary, Winthrop, Wofford

Men - App State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Charlotte, Citadel, Clemson, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, Davidson, Duke, East Carolina, Eastern Kentucky (#16), Elon, Furman (#20), Gardner-Webb, George Mason, High Point, Kentucky, Liberty, Longwood, Louisville, Morehead State, NC State (#26), North Carolina, Northern Kentucky, Presbyterian, Radford, Richmond, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Greensboro, USC Upstate, VCU, Virginia (#28), Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, Western Carolina, William & Mary, Winthrop

TAR HEEL LINEUP
North Carolina Men - Jeremy Brown, Nick Golebiowski, Alex Milligan, Brodie Modini, Ian Moini, Luke Peterson, Mitch Resor and Matt Thornton

North Carolina Women - Charlotte Bassett, Olivia Bene, Erin Edmundson, Casey Greenwalt, Lindsey Lanier, Enyaeva Michelin, Camryn Petit and Ashley Smith

NCAA XC SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NOTES
• Top-25 finishers earn All-Region honors
• The top-two teams advance to the NCAA Championships held in Madison Wisc., Nov. 17
• The top-four individual finishers whose teams do not finish in the top two will qualify for the NCAA Championship meet
• In 2017, the Tar Heel women finished 13th and the men finished 16th at the Southeast Regional held in Charlottesville, Va.

ENYAEVA MICHELIN EARNS ALL-ACC HONORS
Enyaeva Michelin captured her first All-ACC accolades at the 2018 ACC Cross Country Championships in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Michelin's promising conference performance led the Tar Heel women to another 11th-place team finish with 294 points while the men moved up two spots from the 2017 competition, placing ninth of 15 with a score of 232 points.

Though Michelin was only 27th after the first 1.5k, the freshman made up ground in the next 3k to pass 11 other competitors. In the final four-minute stretch, Michelin overtook four more student-athletes to capture that 12th-place finish and second-team All-ACC honors.

After Michelin finished 12th with a time of 20:45.2, the remaining four scorers on the women's side either bested their Penn State National times or finished within a second of their previous 6k. Casey Greenwalt ran 21:56.2 for 62nd and Erin Edmundson finished 76th with a time of 22:06.5. Ashley Smith and Camryn Petit clocked times of 22:11.1 and 22:12.4 in the event and contributed to Carolina's final score with 82nd- and 83rd-place finishes.

For the men, Jeremy Brown was Carolina's top finisher at the ACC Cross Country Championship meet for the second year in a row. Brown led the Tar Heels with a 31st-place time of 24:28.1 with Alex Milligan right on his heels clocking in 24:28.8 for 32nd. Nick Golebiowski finished 36th with a time of 24:32.4 and Matt Thornton and Ian Moini were Carolina's final two scorers, running 24:58.8 and 25:03.1, respectively, for 71st and 75th.

PENN STATE NATIONAL RECAP
Following a stunning finish in Beantown, the men's cross country team came out ready to back up their performances. This time, the men bested not one but two top-30 teams, including Iona (#27) and ACC rival Virginia Tech (#30), with Jeremy Brown leading the pack with a 37th-place time of 25:44.

The Carolina's men's team finished the race together and, for the most part, ended the race together as the top four finishers crossed the line within five seconds of each other. Following Brown, Alex Milligan, Mitch Resor and Nick Golebiowski clocked in mere seconds apart — Milligan in 25:47 for 43rd, Resor in 25:48 for 45th and Golebiowski in 25:49 for 47th. Matt Thornton followed in 59th place and finished the course in 26:01 to round out UNC's score.

On the women's team, Enyaeva Michelin continues to make a name for herself in collegiate cross country as she earned the top spot for Carolina for the third consecutive meet. Michelin finished 14th out of 289 runners in her first ever collegiate 6K competition. The other four scorers for Carolina all crossed the finish line over a 30-second span. Casey Greenwalt ran 21:57 for 104th and Camryn Petit placed 124th with a time of 22:12. Lindsey Lanier clocked in at 22:19 for 136th and Erin Edmundson finished 142nd in 22:26.

BATTLE IN BEANTOWN RECAP
The North Carolina men's team pulled off a big upset over No. 12 Campbell in the men's 8K competition at the Battle in Beantown. Though they finished fifth of 23 teams, the Tar Heel men only finished behind men's programs ranked in the top-30. Missing two of their top performers, the women's team pushed through the 5K course to take 14th out of 24 teams.

Carolina's top two men's finishers, graduate student Nick Golebiowski and redshirt sophomore Mitch Resor, both set new personal records in 8K competition. Golebiowki ran 24:31.9 for 16th in his first race for UNC and Resor clocked in a time of 24:34.2 for 20th-place. Junior Jeremy Brown and redshirt sophomores Brodie Modini and Alex Milligan also contributed to Carolina's fifth-place finish. Brown finished in 27th place with a time of 24:45.3 and Brodie Modini ran a career-best time of 25:03.1 for 41st. Milligan wrapped up the Tar Heels' scoring with a 51st-place finish in his first collegiate 8K appearance, running the course in 25:14.9.

Freshman Enyaeva Michelin was once again the top finisher for North Carolina's women's cross country team. Michelin scored 31 points for UNC after clocking in at 17:52.6 in the women's 5K. Redshirt senior Casey Greenwalt , juniors Erin Edmundson and Ashley Smith and freshman Camryn Petit finished within 20 places of each other. Greenwalt took 83rd with a time of 18:25.5, Edmundson 88th with 18:31.6, Smith 93rd with a personal-best 18:35.2 and Petit 103rd with 18:37.8.

CHARLOTTE OPENER RECAP
Debuting a new roster and a new coach, Carolina managed to take home two second-place finishes after the men scored 38 points and the women tallied 40 at the Charlotte Opener in Concord, N.C.

Mitch Resor, the top scorer for UNC's men's team, clocked in at 15:23.5 to finish third in his first appearance of the season. The other four scorers all crossed the finish line within three seconds of each other. Jeremy Brown, Brodie Modini and Ian Moini earned fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-place honors with respective times of 15:34.1, 15:34.5 and 15:26.1 while Matt Thornton followed closely behind in 11th after running the 5K course in a time of 15:27.1.

In the women's 5K competition, four Tar Heels also finished among the top-10. Freshman Enyaeva Michelin placed fifth with a time of 18:41.4 and teammates Erin Edmundson and Casey
Greenwalt finished in 18:46.1 and 18:46.7 for sixth and seventh place. Camryn Petit also made her collegiate debut, snagging 10th with her time of 18:51.3, and Ashley Smith rounded out scoring with a 14th-place time of 19:05.1.