Hokie ClubThe Virginia Tech women’s cross country team is ranked 19th in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll. The Hokies debuted at 20th in the Sept. 11 preseason poll and fell to 25th in the Sept. 18 edition.
Tech has taken first place in its last three meets and totaled 132 points in the national poll and improved three spots to second place behind only Duke in the USTFCCCA’s Southeast Regional poll after ranking fourth in the preseason and fifth on Sept. 18.
Back-to-back NCAA champion, Stanford, earned 10 first-place votes to top the national rankings while four other Atlantic Coast Conference members were among the field: Florida State (No. 11), Boston College (No. 15), Duke (No. 17) and NC State (No. 25).
In the southeast region, Duke was No. 1 followed by the Hokies, along with ACC schools NC State (No. 3), Virginia (No. 4), Wake Forest (No. 6) and North Carolina (No. 7).
The men’s team improved to fifth in the Southeast Regional poll after placing sixth for two consecutive weeks.
Tech next competes at the University of Arkansas’s Chile Pepper Invitational at 9:45 a.m. on Oct. 13 in Fayetteville, Ark.