Hal Falls

This is part of an inside joke but enjoy! Hal has a great sense of humor and got up and finished well in the race. He is ready for regionals and then nationals!

National XC Rankings

The Augustana Vikings women are ranked 4th and men 7th nationally going into the regional competition this week.   New rankings will be out this week! Click on the links below to check it out!

Regional Rankings

National Rankings 

This past year on flotrack

Here are some video's from this past year covering some of our athletes. Enjoy!


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XC Conference Championship Races 2011

 Men's XC Conference Championship Race



Women's XC Conference Championship Race

Weeeeeeeeeeee Are The Champions!!!

    Exciting news for the Augustana XC programs this past weekend.   Both men and women came out of the conference meets with the titles.   The XC gods were good to us with a beautiful sunny warm day in October which made the race that much better.  
     The women were first up and it proved to be a good race.   University of Mary was ranked closely behind us at both the national and conference level.    Our girls needed a good effort, and they all performed well.    Runa Falch's winning effort was more than eight seconds better than the runner-up performance by teammate Kyle Blakeslee.  Falch navigated the 6,000-meter course in 20:38.30, while Blakeslee came in at 20:46.40.  After the first two going number one and two in the race, Augie kept pouring it on with Leah Hansen placing fourth in a time of 20:54.60, Kelly Kougl finishing seventh in 21:26.50, and Kristin Brondbo collected eighth-place honors (21:30.20).   The Vikings were able to place 7 in the top 20 runners with Annie Pfeifle (22:05.20) placing 14th, and Miriam Hovda (22:19.30) 18th.  The women finished 13 points ahead of second place Mary.  This rivalry will continue through the Regional and National competition.
    Next up was the mens race.   With the debut of Tom Karbo joining the already strong men's team, it proved to be a fun race to watch.   Four of Augustana's men finished in the top-five. Yak beat teammate and second-place finisher Ryan Evans by more than 17 seconds, cruising through the 8,000-meter course in 24:28.80.  Evans finished in 24:46:00.   Karbo, who won the race last year, placed third (24:51.40), and Adam Braun (24:56.60) checked in at fifth.  Augie rounded out the top 20 with Jordan Slusser (25:27.30) placing 13th and Halvard Lange (25:31.90) at15th (All-NSIC second team).  The men's team finished 28 points ahead of second place Mankato.   The men's team will be fun to watch going into regionals and nationals.  
     Coach Tracy Hellman continues his dominant streak with now 5 women's championhips in a row, and 3 in the row for the men.   Hellman picked up coach of the year accolades for both men and women and is running out of space for awards in his office!
     The Vikings head to Denver, CO for the regional XC race on the 5-6th of Nov, and upon qualifying will head to Spokane, WA for the national meet on the 19-20th of Nov.

Exciting Times Ahead!

     Since this weekend is Vikings Days the cross country teams are off.   Last weekend we competed down at Briar Cliff and swept both titles!   It was a very flat course and some fast times were put down.   Travis Beniak (unattached) was crowned champion for the men while Kristin Brondbo was the top finisher for the Viking women.   The regular season for the cross country season this year has been relatively quiet with many of our top runners sitting out.   Its championship season now, and Augie is going to bring out all the stops!
     We have the conference meet next weekend Oct. 21-23 in Moorhead, MN.   Both men and women are defending champions and will be tough to beat again this year!   Stay tuned for results!

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