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The 2010 Great Lakes Valley Conference Cross Country Championshps will be held on Saturday, Nov. 6, in Somers, Wis. The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will host the event for the second time. UW-Parkside also hosted in 2002.
The 2010 Cross Country Championships will open with the 32nd annual men's 8,000-meter run at 10:30 a.m. CT. The 27th annual women's 6,000-meter run will follow at 11:30 a.m. The meets will be conducted on the Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course on the campus of UW-Parkside.
The Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course was the site of the 2009 NCAA Midwest Regional Cross Country Championships and has hosted numerous national meets over the years.
The top-placing men's and women's teams will be named the 2010 GLVC Cross Country Champions, respectively. In addition, the top 15 men individual finishers and the top 15 women individual finishers will be named All-GLVC and the medalist of each race will be named the GLVC Runners of the Year. The top finishing freshmen on the men's and women's side, respectively, will garner GLVC Freshman of the Year honors.
The University of Southern Indiana swept the championships in 2009 in Louisville. It marked the fifth consecutive men's title for the Eagles and their league-best 17th overall. It was the third straight women's title for USI and the Eagles' sixth overall. Bellarmine (1), Indianapolis (1), Lewis (10) and former GLVC-member Ashland (1) have also claimed men's titles. Lewis (3), UW-Parkside (8) and Ashland (9) have each claimed women's crowns.
Drury senior Jaime Villa Zapatero has claimed been the men's individual champion the past two seasons, while the reigning women's individual champion is former USI student-athlete Mary Ballinger.
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