If you want to add a little bit more excitement to your football-Saturday experience this weekend when the Missouri football team takes on Nevada, check out the Missouri Cross Country Challenge that will be held that morning at A.L. Gustin Golf Course. High school junior varsity races will start at 8 a.m., but the main event, the collegiate men's 8k race will begin at 10 a.m., with the women to follow in a 5k at 10:40. Mizzou will take on Kansas, Murray State, and Lincoln University in the squads' only home meeting of the season.
The 2008 season starts anew for the Missouri Cross Country teams with a sense of anticipation of what is to come. With a men's team full of veterans and a women's squad that has many of the same keys from last season, the Tigers look to have a sizeable impact this season on the Big 12 Conference and beyond.
The Missouri cross country squads began its 2008 campaign on Friday in Carbondale, Ill., with the SIU Early Bird, which amounted to a head-to-head dual with Southern Illinois. The women squad nearly swept the Salukis 18-41 while the Tiger men, holding out most of the team's headliners in the early-season tune-up, was topped by SIU 23-32.
It's certainly been a banner year for Missouri Athletics and on the heels of strong showings from Tiger Baseball, Softball and Men's Track and Field at the national level this spring, Missouri finished 38th in the final U.S. Sports Academy's Directors' Cup standings (formerly known as the Sears Directors' Cup) released Thursday afternoon by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
Columbia, Mo. - After receiving the fourth at-large bid in four years for a Tiger runner, Missouri sophomore Dan Hedgecock (St. Louis, Mo.) finished 125th at the 2007 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Hedgecock finished the race in 31:21.2. The race was Hedgecock's first appearance at the NCAA Championships.
Mizzou (5-1, 1-1) travels to Austin, Texas, where they'll take on the nation's #1-ranked Texas Longhorns (6-0, 2-0) Saturday night at 7 p.m. The game will be shown nationally on ABC.
Mizzou Basketball hosted its inaugural Douglass Park Basketball Clinic on Saturday Oct. 11 and better than 40 area youths turned out for the two-hour camp.
Missouri opened play in the Price's Give `em Five on Monday in Las Cruces, N.M. and stands in a tie for 10th place. Junior Julia Potter had the best round of the day for the Tigers, carding a one-over-par 73 on Monday to put her in a tie for fifth place.
