2017 Cross Country Schedule Features Three Home Meets, Highlighted By Big West Championships

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Riverside–Earlier this week Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Nate Browne released the UC Riverside 2017 Cross Country meet schedule.The Highlanders host three events, and will see the Big West Championships return to the AgOps course after a one-year absence. The conference event is scheduled for Saturday, October 28."Coach Hansen and I are excited about our schedule this year." said Browne.UC Riverside heads to Mammoth Lakes for high-altitude training in mid-August, before gun officially goes off on the 2017 season in Nevada at the Nature's Bakery Twilight Classic on Friday night, September 1. Following the Twilight Classic, both teams return to Mammoth to complete their high-altitude training. See the 2016 Facebook albumOn Saturday, September 16, the blue and gold welcomes runners to the Inland Empire for the 37th annual UC Riverside Invitational.Two weeks later, Coach Browne takes his squad to Fayetteville, AR for the Chili Pepper Festival on Saturday, September 30. "With Stanford forgoing their large invite for a year, it created an opportunity to do something different. The Chili Pepper meet in Arkansas, gives our kids have a great chance to run against some teams they've never seen and on a course that's brand new to them."The 6th annual Highlander Invitational on October 14 serves as the final tune-up on the AgOps course before the Big West Championships. "We're always happy to see the Big West meet return to our place. This is a great meet schedule for this XC group in Coach Hansen's second season.", Browne added.See the full 2017 Cross Country schedule


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