STANFORD, Calif. – All five of Stanford's All-Americans were among 16 Cardinal to receive Pac-12 All-Academic honors in cross country.
The Cardinal men's and women's teams each placed fifth at the NCAA Championships on Nov. 17, making Stanford the only school with twin top-five team finishes in each of the past three years. Of those two teams, every scorer (top-5 placer on each team) earned all-academic recognition.
Stanford had two first-team men's selections and one woman. Graduate student Tai Dinger earned his second consecutive first-team honor and sophomore Callum Bolger earned his first. Hannah Long was the only Stanford woman on the first team, earning her first all-academic honor.
Of Stanford's All-Americans, NCAA men's runner-up Grant Fisher was on the second team along with Alek Parsons, with Alex Ostberg on honorable mention. For the women, Elise Cranny and Fiona O'Keeffe were second-team selections.
Here is Stanford's full list of honorees:
Pac-12 All-Academic cross country
Men
First team
Callum Bolger, so., 4.06 (undeclared)
Tai Dinger, grad. 3.99 (management science and engineering)
Second team
Steven Fahy, 5th, 3.74 (human biology)
Grant Fisher, sr., 3.59 (electrical engineering)
Alek Parsons, RS so., 3.77 (environmental systems engineering)
Honorable mention
Blair Hurlock, Alex Ostberg, DJ Principe, Michael Vernau.
Women
First team
Hannah Long, RS jr., 3.99 (psychology)
Second team
Elise Cranny, 5th, 3.87 (human biology)
Fiona O'Keeffe, jr., 3.90 (earth systems)
Honorable mention
Christina Aragon, Julia Heymach, Jessica Lawson, Jordan Oakes.
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McNulty to race on the track
BOSTON – Stanford's Abbie McNulty will race in the invitational 5,000 meters at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday, christening the Cardinal's indoor season.
The race, run on a 200-meter banked track at Boston University's Track and Tennis Center, begins at 1:40 p.m. PT and will be shown live on Flotrack.
McNulty, a fifth-year senior and bioengineering major, had finished her cross country eligibility in 2017, but still has an indoor and outdoor season to go. This will be her first race since running a personal best 15:58.23 in the 5,000 at the outdoor Portland Track Festival on June 10, placing her No. 9 all-time at Stanford.
She was sixth in the 10,000 at the 2018 Pac-12 Championships and her 33:07.41 at that distance in the NCAA West Prelims – she missed NCAA Championships qualifying to two spots – made her the third-fastest in Stanford history.
The women's 5K is loaded, with three NCAA champions: New Mexico's Ednah Kurgat (2017 cross country), Kansas' Sharon Lokedi (2018 10,000), and Boise State's Allie Ostrander (2017 and 2018 steeplechase).
Elise Cranny, who earned her 12th All-America honor at Stanford on Nov. 17 by placing 11th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, begins her post-collegiate career with this race.
Collegiate runners will be seeking times that will stand up throughout the season among the nation's top 16, which earn qualification for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships held March 8-9 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Here is the link to Flotrack's live premium stream.
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Three signees to race at NXN
PORTLAND, Ore. – Three recent Stanford signees -- Liam Anderson, Charles Hicks, and Ryan Oosting -- will race at the Nike Cross Nationals on Saturday at the Glendoveer Golf Course. The boys championship race starts at 11:35 a.m.
Anderson, who lives in Corte Madera and runs for Redwood High in Larkspur, won his second consecutive California Division III championship on Saturday, running the fastest time of the five divisions at Fresno's Woodward Park.
Hicks, of Jacksonville, Florida, and The Bolles School, won the NXN Northeast Regional and will attempt to improve upon his ninth-place finish of a year ago.
Oosting, of Arlington (Mass.) High, recently won his first Massachusetts All-State cross country title and led the Spy Ponders to their first team championship.
Stanford track and field's entire fall signing class will announced in December.
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Distinction for Stanford men's cross country
STANFORD – With the Cardinal men placing fifth at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Nov. 17, the Cardinal earned its fifth consecutive top-five finish. Since 1998 when the field expanded to 31 teams, only seven teams have a streak of five straight top-5, and Stanford joins Colorado and Wisconsin as the only teams to do it twice.
Stanford had a streak of nine from 1995-2003 before the current streak began in 2014. Wisconsin's streak of 10, from 1999-2008 is the record, but the Badgers have only one streak of at least five.
