The Drake University men's and women's cross country teams continue their 2016 season at the Oz Memorial on Friday, Sept. 9.
The Oz Memorial, hosted by the University of Minnesota, is named in honor of former Bulldog head coach, Gary Osborne. The women's 6-kilometer race will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by the men's 4-mile race at 7 p.m. on the Les Bolstad Course in Falcon Heights, Minn. Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota State are among those in attendence expected to challenge the Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs are finishing up their second week of hard training with the Oz Memorial serving as another step in preparing the young team to compete through training and build fitness for the championship portion of the season.
Last week, senior
Reed Fisher's (Minnetonka, Minn.) second place finish with a time of 17:59.5 at the Hawkeye Invitational earned him the Missouri Valley Conference Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Week honor. Fisher was also named the Eagle Bank MVC Men's Student-Athlete of the Week.
Junior
Bailee Cofer (Overland Park, Kan.) led the young women's team with an 11
th place finish followed by three freshman, including
Mykaela Cole (Urbandale, Iowa) who finished 35th in her first collegiate race.
Both the men and women finished eighth as a team in the season-opening outing.
Following the Oz Memorial, members of the team will compete in the Grand View Invitational in Des Moines and the Woody Greeno/Dirksen Invite in Lincoln, Neb. Both invitationals are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17.
