Iowa runners Nick Trattner (left) and Noah Healy (proper) compete within the Hawkeye Invite meet on the Ashton Cross Nation Course on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.
Conditioning has been a spotlight for each Iowa males’s and girls’s cross nation this season, particularly because the race distances for the crew enhance.
Iowa kicked off the 2021-22 season by internet hosting the Hawkeye Invitational on the Ashton Cross Nation Course in Iowa Metropolis on Sept. 3. The occasion featured a males’s 6,000-meter and girls’s 4,000-meter race.
The Iowa males gained the 2021-22 Hawkeye Invitational, and the ladies completed third.
The stakes had been ratcheted up at Iowa’s subsequent meet — the Dirksen-Greeno Invitational in Lincoln, Nebraska. The College of Nebraska-hosted outing boasted an 8,000-meter race for males and a 5,000-meter for girls.
The Hawkeye girls gained the invitational and the lads positioned third.
After the Dirksen-Greeno Invitational, Iowa head coach Randy Hasenbank mentioned the Hawkeye males struggled as a result of they lacked expertise. Hasenbank added that solely a handful of his athletes had participated in an 8,000-meter race earlier than.
The Hawkeye males’s cross nation crew’s 17-runner roster options 11 freshmen.
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