{"id":11337,"date":"2019-11-16T01:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2019-11-16T01:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:51:41","slug":"knapp-out-of-sight-cruisin-into-the-ncaa-cross-country-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/knapp-out-of-sight-cruisin-into-the-ncaa-cross-country-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Knapp out of sight, cruisin\u2019 into the NCAA Cross Country Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Hannah Greene<\/strong> | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Saturday, Nov. 9, ÀÖ²¥ÊÓƵ held the NCAA Division II West Regional at Ash Creek \u2014 both the men and the women competed for the Wolves racing to get top positions overall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The final results of the race were not as expected with Grace Knapp, a senior in her last cross country season, taking the sixth overall spot out of 187 other racers \u2014 only eight seconds away from placing second. The men on the other hand didn\u2019t have a single finisher in the top 10, and their first racer, Andy Muha, a transfer junior, came in 45th place overall \u2014 just four seconds away from finishing in the top 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The women\u2019s team placed 17th overall while the men placed 13th overall, out of 27 teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Knapp has officially qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Nov. 23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was the final race for both the cross country teams, but the training doesn\u2019t end there; with indoor track season on the horizon, the cross country team will hang up their running shoes and flex their spikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:hgreene18@wou.edu\">hgreene18@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Greene | Sports Editor On Saturday, Nov. 9, ÀÖ²¥ÊÓƵ held the NCAA Division II West Regional at Ash Creek \u2014 both the men and the women competed for the Wolves racing to get top positions overall. The final results of the race were not as expected with Grace Knapp, a senior in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}