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Nate Moller | Friday, May 21, 2021
It was a bizarre year for cross country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with the national meet taking place at the beginning of March rather than its usual November date. Despite this, the men’s cross country team managed to finish second in the country, which was good for their best finish since 1957.
Nate Moller | Thursday, May 6, 2021
Notre Dame track and field will be back in action in a week and a half in the biggest outdoor meet of the year so far at the ACC Championships in Raleigh, North Carolina. For the first time since the pandemic began, the whole team will be competing in one place, and head coach Matt
Nate Moller | Thursday, April 22, 2021
Although the Irish only had two athletes competing this weekend at the Gibson Invitational at Indiana State University, junior pole vaulter Colton Crum and freshman heptathlete Jadin O’Brien made a statement by performing well and winning their respected events. Crum cleared a height of 5.21 meters, which is good for the fifth-best outdoor mark in
Nate Moller | Thursday, April 15, 2021
The Notre Dame track and field team participated in the Joe Walker Invite at Ole Miss this past weekend. There were solid performances all around, especially in the throws and the heptathlon. Head coach Matt Sparks explained how the success of senior thrower Rachel Tanczos last year led many graduate students to transfer to Notre
Nate Moller | Friday, April 9, 2021
Track and field will be back in action this weekend with a group of athletes heading down to the Joe Walker Invitation at the University of Mississippi. The outdoor track season started off well for the Irish a couple of weeks ago with their first outdoor meet at North Carolina State University. At that meet,
Nate Moller | Tuesday, February 9, 2021
The men’s and women’s cross country programs both returned to action this past week with the men heading down to Las Vegas to compete in the Silver State Collegiate Challenge last Monday and the women competing in the Florida State Winter XC Classic in Tallahassee this past Friday. The women’s team came in 8th place
Nate Moller | Monday, November 2, 2020
The men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at the ACC Championships this past Friday in Cary, North Carolina. The men took first, bringing home their second title in three years, and the women’s team tied for fifth. On the women’s side, the Irish finished with 116 points, trailing NC State (47), Georgia Tech (99),
Nate Moller | Monday, November 2, 2020
Although Molly Seidel won a plethora of titles on the track and on cross country courses during her time at Notre Dame, she has shown over the past several months that she is one of the best female marathon runners in the country. Seidel, a 2015 Notre Dame graduate, ran her first ever marathon this
Nate Moller | Friday, October 30, 2020
The Notre Dame women’s and men’s cross country teams will compete in the ACC Championships in Cary, N.C. on Friday in their last meet of the season. Both teams are nationally ranked and will head into the meet with high expectations. Head women’s coach Matt Sparks talked about how his team has responded well to
Nate Moller | Wednesday, October 7, 2020
The Notre Dame women’s cross country team remained undefeated on the season by winning its second meet of the season at the Louisville Classic on Saturday. The Irish placed first in the seven-team meet with 47 points, beating out SEC teams Ole Miss (54), Kentucky (76) and Tennessee (93). Head coach Matt Sparks said he