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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue cross country program is set to face its biggest challenge yet in the Joe Piane Invitational, hosted by Notre Dame on Friday afternoon. The race, held at the Notre Dame Golf Course, will house 14 of the top-ranked men's programs in the nation, including nine placed among the top 19 in the USTFCCCA poll.
The women will take the course first in the Blue Division 5k at 1 p.m. ET. The men are set to follow at 1:45 p.m. ET in the five-mile race.
The men, ranked No. 21 in the nation, will be joined by four Big Ten teams – No. 10 Wisconsin, No. 16 Michigan, No. 19 Indiana and Iowa. The loaded field of competitors will also include five top 15-ranked opponents.
The men are coming off a fourth-place finish at the John McNichols invite, which saw three Boilermakers place in the top 10. The trio of Jaret Carpenter, Brody Smith and Curt Eckstein placed eighth, ninth and 10th-place, respectively. While a total of four top-16 programs ran in the race, the Boilermakers placed the second-most top 10 finishers out of any program in attendance.
In addition to the three, Bailey McIntire and Tyler Bowling are among the nine men's runners included to run at Notre Dame.
Meanwhile, the women's team, which ranks No. 8 in the Great Lakes Region, will run 10 competitors. Among them are returners Jenna Halderman, Megan Slamkowski, Isabelle Sparreo and freshman sisters Ellie and Emma Tate.
Slamkowski is coming off a team-leading time of 17:41.5 at the John McNichols Invite, where she placed 34th in the field. As a whole, four women finished among the top 61 to take home seventh-place in a field that included four of the top 8 teams in the nation.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue cross country program is set to face its biggest challenge yet in the Joe Piane Invitational, hosted by Notre Dame on Friday afternoon. The race, held at the Notre Dame Golf Course, will house 14 of the top-ranked men's programs in the nation, including nine placed among the top 19 in the USTFCCCA poll.
The women will take the course first in the Blue Division 5k at 1 p.m. ET. The men are set to follow at 1:45 p.m. ET in the five-mile race.
The men, ranked No. 21 in the nation, will be joined by four Big Ten teams – No. 10 Wisconsin, No. 16 Michigan, No. 19 Indiana and Iowa. The loaded field of competitors will also include five top 15-ranked opponents.
The men are coming off a fourth-place finish at the John McNichols invite, which saw three Boilermakers place in the top 10. The trio of Jaret Carpenter, Brody Smith and Curt Eckstein placed eighth, ninth and 10th-place, respectively. While a total of four top-16 programs ran in the race, the Boilermakers placed the second-most top 10 finishers out of any program in attendance.
In addition to the three, Bailey McIntire and Tyler Bowling are among the nine men's runners included to run at Notre Dame.
Meanwhile, the women's team, which ranks No. 8 in the Great Lakes Region, will run 10 competitors. Among them are returners Jenna Halderman, Megan Slamkowski, Isabelle Sparreo and freshman sisters Ellie and Emma Tate.
Slamkowski is coming off a team-leading time of 17:41.5 at the John McNichols Invite, where she placed 34th in the field. As a whole, four women finished among the top 61 to take home seventh-place in a field that included four of the top 8 teams in the nation.