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Monday,
November 6, 2000
BLUE
HOSE CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERS FORRESTER & BRADEN NAMED TO
NCAA DIVISION II SOUTHEAST ALL-REGION TEAMS
GREENSBORO,
NC Presbyterian College cross country runners freshman
Tanith
Forrester (Lexington, SC) and senior Zach
Braden (Covington, GA) were named to the NCAA
Division II Southeast All-Region teams announced over the
weekend.
Braden, a product of Newton
High School, ended his collegiate running career in
dramatic fashion. Braden won two meets, the Lenoir-Rhyne
Invitational and the 2000 South Atlantic Conference
Championships en route to the 2000 SAC Player of the Year
honors and helped his team to a program-best second place
finish. He led the team to two meets wins this season,
another program-record, and a seventh place finish at the
NCAA Division II Southeast Regional. Braden finished 13th
at this past weekends NCAA regional to earn All-Region
honors.
The mens and womens cross country teams are
under the direction of third-year head coach Leigh Irwin. Irwin and assistant coach Mike Rosolino helped lead the program to its most successful
season ever. The program started five years ago as a club
sport and now has become one of the top up and coming
programs in NCAA Division II.
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