The Toledo Inter-Regional Bubble Buster will take place tomorrow at historic Ottawa Park Golf Course.
I have created a Flotrack coverage page which has interviews, video, and other such things. You can access meet info, parking, course maps, and so on at UTRockets.com. The results will be available at Delta Timing.
The above graphic shows you who is coming, but you might not be familiar with all the various team logos. Below are some of the notes I’ve worked up, with each team’s rankings, head coach, conference affiliation and other information.
MEN
#13 Syracuse
#2 Northeast region
Head coach: Chris Fox
Big East Conference (4th last year)
15th at the NCAA Championships last year
Eastern Michigan
#8 Great Lakes region
Head coach: John Goodridge
Mid-American Conference (defending champs)
Led by Terife Ejigu, who narrowly missed qualifying to last year’s NCAAs
San Francisco
#15 West region
Head coach: Helen Lehman-Winters
West Coast Conference (3rd last year)
Ohio University
Head coach: Clay Calkins
Mid-American Conference (5th last year)
Toledo
Head coach: Kevin Hadsell
Mid-American Conference (6th last year)
Charlotte
Head coach: Ed Schlichter
Atlantic 10 Conference (9th last year)
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This is the race that will be very competitive, with four of the nation’s top twenty-five teams, and two of last year’s top 40 individuals at the NCAA Championships.
#18 Toledo
#3 Great Lakes region
Head coach: Kevin Hadsell
Mid-American Conference (defending champions)
A young team (only one senior on tomorrow’s start list); last year’s top two runners graduated
Megan Vogelsong & Kaylin Belair the top returners
21st at last year’s NCAA Championships
#22 Syracuse
#3 Northeast region
Head coach: Chris Fox
Big East Conference (=4th last year)
17th at last year’s NCAA Championships
#23 San Francisco
#5 West region
Head coach: Helen Lehman-Winters
West Coast Conference (defending champions)
25th at last year’s NCAA Championships
Laura Suur, 38th at last year’s NCAA Championships, is not on the start list
#25 West Virginia
#5 Mid-Atlantic region
Head coach: Sean Cleary
Big East Conference (=4th last year)
8th at last year’s NCAA Championships
Running only one athlete from last year’s NCAA team (Jordan Hamric)
Iowa
#4 Midwest region
Head coach: Layne Anderson
Big Ten Conference (6th last year)
BYU
#4 Mountain region
Head coach: Patrick Shane
West Coast Conference (2nd last year)
Portland
#6 West region
Head coach: Ian Solof
West Coast Conference (3rd last year)
Navy
#6 Mid-Atlantic region
Head coach: Karen Boyle
Patriot League (defending champions)
Butler
#7 Great Lakes region
Head coach: Matt Roe
Atlantic 10 Conference (new to the conference in 2012)
Lipscomb
#7 South region
Head coach: Bill Taylor
Atlantic Sun Conference (defending champions)
Columbia
#8 Northeast region
Head coach: Willy Wood
Heps (runners-up last year)
Led by star runner Waverly Neer, 40th at NCAA in 2011 – the nation’s top freshman runner last year
Ohio University
#10 Great Lakes region
Head coach: Clay Calkins
Mid-American Conference (4th last year)
Led by star runner Juli Accurso, 36th at last year’s NCAA
Charlotte
#13 Southeast region
Head coach: Ed Schlichter
Atlantic 10 Conference (3rd last year)
Eastern Michigan
Head coach: Sue Parks
Mid-American Conference (5th last year)
Victorio Voronko was 4th in MAC as a freshman in 2011