Event: Nuttycombe Invitational
Host: Wisconsin
Dates: Friday, October 18, 2019
Location: Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, Wis.
Live Stats: pttiming.com
Video: flortrack.org
 
Schedule of Events
Women's 6k: Open 9 a.m. and Championship 10:20 a.m. (Pacific)
Men's 8k: 11 a.m. (Pacific)
 
THIS WEEK
• The Pilots will send select runners to compete at the Nuttycombe Invitational at Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, Wis.
• Competing for the men are Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse, Caleb Webb, Evert Silva, Riley Osen, Ruben Kiprono, and George Duggan.
• Quote from men's head coach Rob Conner, "This is the biggest and toughest meet in the nation every year so it's a good indicator of how good you really are. The guys are excited for the challenge."
• Competing for the women in the open race are Ellie Erikson, Grace Perkins, Grace Ritchie, Kate Seary, and Virag Weiler, and in the championship race will be Jasmine Fehr, Anna Pataki, Emma Jenkins, Lacey Conner, Victoria Weir, Sofia Castiglioni, and Maddy Lyons.
• Quote from women's head coach Ian Solof, "This is the best meet in the nation. The test for us will be to keep focused and running hard in a sea of 250 runners. The meet is so deep that if we can finish around the middle of the field we have a good chance of getting an at large berth to Nationals later in the fall."
• Live stats for the event can be found at pttiming.com, and live video will be streamed on flotrack.org. The live stream will be shown in the Hall of Fame room on campus in the Chiles Center starting at 9 a.m.
 
LAST MEET
• The Portland men's cross country team claimed the Charles Bowles Invitational team title with 48 points.
• Matt Schumann led three Pilots in the Top 10 individually with a third-place overall finish. Cameron Thompson placed sixth and Cole Shugart took eighth place.
• The women's team finished in second place overall with 86 points.
• The Pilot women had four harriers finish in the top 20 paced by Grace Ritchie in fourth place with a time of 18:05.4.
 
2019 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• At the Dellinger Invitational, the men's team totaled 182 points in the 8K for fifth place in the team scores.
• Sophomore Justin Hazell finished first for the Pilots in 23:53.9, a new personal best which was good for 13th place overall.
• In the women's 6K, the Pilots finished eighth in the team total, and it was Anna Pataki who led the way with her personal record of 20:19.5 for 14th place individually.
• Junior Victoria Weir won the individual title and led the Portland women to the team championship at the Western Oregon University Sundowner.
• Pilots took the top three spots individually in the 6K meet and won the team title with a score of 43 points.
• In the men's 8K meet, the Pilots finished second with a team score of 55.
• Senior Matt Schumann led the way for Portland with a fourth-place finish in a time of 24:57.8.
• The Portland men's team claimed the team title at the PSU Viking Rust Buster with a total of 20 points, including PRs from seven of eight runners.
• Reuben Kiprono won first place overall in the men's 6k race with his time of 18:11.9.
• The Pilots' women's team finished third in the team scores, and Grace Perkins led the way with a seventh place finish in the 4k and a PR of 14:13.5.
• Perkins was one of eight Pilots to PR for Portland in the women's 4k.
• Both Portland's men's and women's teams won the team titles at the Linfield Harrier Classic in McMinnville, Oregon. The men's team won with a score of 19 points, and the women with a score of 27.
• Cameron Thompson was the top finisher for the men in the 6K, claiming second place with a time of 19:34.4.
• Redshirt freshman Ellie Misuraca claimed her first individual win in the women's 4K with a time of 15:34.5.
 
LAST SEASON
• The men's cross country team finished third at the 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championships, marking the third time in five years that the Pilots have finished third or better and on the podium.
• At the 2018 West Regional in Sacramento, Calif., the Portland men swept the team and individual trophies.
• Redshirt senior Nick Haguer claimed Portland's second straight individual title and lead the Pilots to their third team West Region title.
• The Pilot men's team graduated Logan Orndorf, Nick Hauger, Stuart McCallum, Michael Somers, and Noah Schutte, who were all members of last year's third place team.
• Portland men's head coach Rob Connor earned his second consecutive and sixth overall West Region Coach of the Year award in 2018. 
• Last year's seniors Lauren LaRocco and Taryn Rawlings both earned All-American honors while leading the Pilot's women's team to their best finish in program history at the 2018 NCAA Cross Country Championships.
• The women's team will be without LaRocco and Rawlings in 2019, in addition to recently graduated team members Becca Howard, Aoibhe Richardson, and Courtney Cox.
• On the academic side, six Pilots combined from the men's and women's teams were named USTFCCCA All-Academic. Noah Schutte was also named to the 2019 Google Cloud Academic West All-District® Men's Track & Field/Cross Country team, for the second year in a row.
 
PILOTS IN THE POLLS
• In the USTFCCCA Week 4 National Poll, the men rank No. 8 overall.
• In the USTFCCCA Week 4 Regional Polls, the men rank No. 2 in the West region, while the women rank No. 7.