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Women’s cross country places 10th: Mwamba leads team with fourth-place finish at meet

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Junior transfer Adeh Mwamba placed fourth Saturday to lead the ACU women's cross country team to a 10th-place finish at the Missouri Southern State University Stampede in Joplin, Mo. Mwamba was the No. 1 Wildcat finisher, covering the 5,000-meter course in 16:55.57. The next ACU finisher was sophomore Olha Kryv'yak, ... [Read More…]

Cross country teams sweep meet: Manirakiza, Mwamba finish first in their respective races

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer ACU swept the men's and women's team titles at its own meet Friday, also claiming the top two individual titles at the ACU Classic. Bernard Manirakiza won his fourth straight Classic title, covering the four-mile course in 20:13.31. Adeh Mwamba won her second-straight individual title, running the three-mile course in ... [Read More…]

Cross Country relies on 1-2 punch of veteran runners

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer ACU senior Bernard Manirakiza wants to be the Division II national champion in cross country. So does junior Martin O'Kello. But don't assume any malevolent competition between the two African-born Wildcat runners. In fact, they are pushing and training each other for a shared goal: to finish 1-2 at this year's NCAA ... [Read More…]

Three Wildcats to represent ACU at UTA Open

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Most of the men's and women's track and field athletes will rest and train this weekend, a week before the Lone Star Conference Championships, while three athletes compete at the University of Texas-Arlington Open. Sophomore Delt Cockrell, who has been unable to qualify for nationals in the 200-meter dash because of ... [Read More…]

Wildcats face No. 5-ranked Belles in four-game series

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer In one of the biggest weekends for track and field in the United States, ACU athletes in two locations qualified for nationals either provisionally or automatically in seven new events. Several standout athletes represented ACU at the prestigious Penn Relay Carnival in Philadelphia, an event witnessed by more than ... [Read More…]

Column As I Saw ‘Em: If I had a dollar for every…

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By Steve Holt, Opinion Editor My dad taught me a game that his mom taught him when he was a kid. It's called "If I had a dollar." It goes something like this: If I had a dollar ... * ... for every time I asked head track and field coach Jon Murray, "How did you feel about our athletes' performances this weekend?" * ... every time someone left ... [Read More…]

Small group makes trip to Philadelphia’s Penn Relay Carnival

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer A handful of track and field athletes are in Philadelphia competing in the prestigious Penn Relay Carnival. The meet, which began Tuesday with the heptathlon and de-cathlon, will run through Saturday at Franklin Field on the University of Penn-sylvania campus. The 2004 Penn Relays are the 108th running of the event, ... [Read More…]

Mwamba nabs automatic bid: ACU rookie leads pack of qualifiers at Baylor Invite

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By Steve Holt, Sports Writer With two weekends to go before the Lone Star Conference Championships, the men's and women's track and field teams added eight new qualifiers for the national meet at the Michael Johnson Classic in Waco on Saturday. Four men and four women added their names to the provisional lists with their performances Saturday, ... [Read More…]

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