Event: Beaver Classic
Host: Oregon State
Dates: October 20, 2018
Location: Crystal Lake Sports Fields, Corvallis, Ore.
Live Stats: None
Video: None
 
Schedule of Events
Women's 6K - 1:00 p.m.
Men's 8k - 8k - 2:00 p.m.
 
THIS WEEK - BEAVER CLASSIC
• The Portland Pilots will compete at the 2018 Beaver Classic in Salem, Ore., at Avery Park on Saturday October 20.
• The men's and women's rosters were unavailable for this event.
• Women's head coach Ian Solof quote: "We will hold out our top people for next week's WCC meet but still run a good group on Saturday. We have a lot of depth and this should be another opportunity for many of our athletes to run near the front of the pack."
• The women's team will compete first at 1:00 p.m., followed by the men at 2:00 p.m.
• There will be no live stats or video for this event.
 
2018 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• The Portland Men opened up the 2018 season by claiming the Portland State Invite. Said Guermali led the Pilots with a first place finish and was named the WCC Runner of the Week for his performance.
• The Portland women won their second meet of the year, the Oregon Preview. The Pilots placed six runners in the top-10, with redshirt sophomore Susan Van Weperen leading the way with a third place finish.
• At the Nuttycombe Invite, the men's team placed third and the women took 12th among stacked fields.
• Nick Hauger was named WCC Runner of the week after Nuttycombe for his 6th place finish. The finish marked the best ever by a WCC representative.
• Lauren LaRocco also earned WCC Runner of the Week honors after finishing 16th overall in Wisconsin.
• At the NCAA PreNational meet in Wisconsin, the Portland men finished 9th overall, led by senior Michael Somers who placed 22nd in his first race in the Portland jersey.
• The Pilot women finished 6th as a team in Wisconsin, led by LaRocco's seventh place finish
• Back in Portland at the Warner Pacific Classic, both the men's and women's teams swept the meet with first place finishes. Redshirt sophomore Lacey Conner claimed the individual title on the women's side and redshirt freshman Evert Silva led the Portland men with a second place finish.
 
PILOTS IN THE POLLS
• Men's Cross Country was picked to finish second to BYU in the 2018 WCC Preseason Poll.
• The women were picked to finish third, behind BYU and San Francisco who tied in the WCC Preseason polls with first place votes.
• LaRocco's was ranked in the preseason by FloTrack as the No.19 individual and senior Noah Schutte has been predicted to make a huge jump to No. 22. Schutte was the seventh man for the Pilots at last year's national meet finishing 148th. The Pilot most recently finished 23rd at the European 3K Steeplechase Championships.
• Roudolff-Levisse checked in at the No. 10 men's individual in the preseason FloTrack rankings and the Portland men were picked to finish third as a team.
• The Pilot women have also made an appearance in the FloTrack women's Team poll, checking in at No. 12.
• PRESEASON - USTFCCCA Regional Poll, the men ranked No. 1 in the West region, while the women rank No. 7. In the national poll, the Men were ranked No.3 and the women were receiving votes.
• WEEK 1 - USTFCCCA Poll: the men remained at No.3, while the women broke into the polls at No.27.
• WEEK 2: USTFCCCA Poll - the men remain at No.3 and the women moved down a spot to No.28.
• WEEK 3: USTFCCCA Poll - the men remain at No.3 and the women moved down a spot to No.29. LaRocco moved up to No.18 and Roudolff-Levisse moved up to No.9 in the FloTrack polls.
• WEEK 4: USTFCCCA Poll - the men moved down to No.4 and the women moved jumped up to No.23. Roudolff-Levisse moved down to No.17 in the FloTrack Individual rankings, while senior Nick Hauger jumps into the FloTrack rankings at No.19.
• WEEK 5:  - Nationally, the men moved down to No.5 and the women moved up to No.19. Both teams remain in their same rankings regionally. In the FloTrack rankings, the men sit at No.4 and the women at No.18