Tar Heels Head Back To Panorama Farms For NCAA Regional

Friday, November 15

Earlysville, Va.

10:30 a.m.

North Carolina

NCAA Southeast Regional Championships

Photo by: Tom Connelly

November 14, 2019 | Cross Country

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EARLYSVILLE, Va. – The University of North Carolina cross country teams are headed back to the University of Virginia's Panorama Farms for the NCAA Southeast Regional on Friday morning.

The women's 6K will begin at 10:30 a.m. with the men's 10K scheduled for 11:30 a.m. The top two teams in each race will receive an automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. as well as the top-four individual finishers whose teams do not advance to the final stage. Those four individuals must also finish among the top 25 at their respective regional meet to advance to the championships.

THE FIELD
North Carolina Men — Jeremy Brown, Jesse Hunt, Alex Milligan, Ian Moini, Mitch Resor, John Tatter, Marshall Williamson

North Carolina Women — Mady Clahane, Erin Edmundson, Emmeline Fisher, Lizzy Harding, Paige Hofstad, Morgan Ilse, Alex Morris

Ranked teams include NC State (#5), Furman (#14) and Virginia Tech (#23) on the women's side while the men face-off against top-30 teams Virginia (#21), Virginia Tech (#22) and Eastern Kentucky (#26).

NCAA SOUTHEAST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Date: Friday, Nov. 15
Women's 6K: 10:30 a.m.
Men's 10K: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Earlysville, Va.
Course: Panorama Farms

NCAA SOUTHEAST REGIONAL NOTES
• Top-25 finishers earn All-Region honors
• The top-two teams advance to the NCAA Championships held in Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 15
• The top-four individual finishers who finish in the top 25 and whose teams do not receive automatic bids will qualify for the NCAA Championship meet
• In 2018, the Tar Heel women finished 14th and the men finished 11th at the Southeast Regional held in Rock Hill, S.C.
• Enyaeva Michelin earned All-Region honors as a freshman at the 2018 NCAA Southeast Regional with a 12th-place finish.

HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG
Both championships will be shown live on FloTrack and live results will be available online.

Fans can follow @UNCTrack_Field on Twitter to receive information as results are made available. A meet recap and results will also be posted on GoHeels.com following the completion of competition.

POSTSEASON RECAPS

• HOFSTAD FINISHES FIFTH AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS / Nov. 1, 2019 •
Senior Paige Hofstad led the North Carolina cross country teams with an All-ACC finish at the 2019 ACC Cross Country Championships on Friday. Hofstad finished the women's 6K race in 20:54.1 for fifth in the individual competition, making her Carolina's first top-five finisher since Annie LeHardy finished fourth in 2014.

With 196 points, the women's team placed eighth in the team standings to earn their best team finish since 2015. The men's team, led by senior Alex Milligan, finished 10th with 298 points.

Adding to the women's score, senior Mady Clahane made the most her return to ACC cross country competition after battling injury during the 2018 season. Clahane clocked 21:40.6 for 33rd place, the best individual finish of her career. Freshman Alex Morris opened her ACC career with a 44th-place time of 21:57.3 and senior Erin Edmundson followed in 51st with a time of 22:04.7. Junior Emmeline Fisher, who transferred from UNCW in 2018, finished 74th in 22:31.0 in her first ever ACC Championships.

In the men's 8K race, Milligan led the Tar Heels with his highest career finish at the ACC meet. The State College, Pa. native crossed the line in 25:05.3 for 27th, just one year after placing 32nd in his ACC Cross Country Championship debut.

The Tar Heels' team score was rounded out by junior Jesse Hunt in 66th (25:38.6), senior Jeremy Brown in 77th (25:57.7), sophomore John Tatter in 80th (26:04.0) and Brandon Tubby in 87th (26:14.3).