{"id":2805,"date":"2015-11-18T22:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:10:15","slug":"womens-xc-head-to-nationals-castaneda-named-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2015\/11\/18\/womens-xc-head-to-nationals-castaneda-named-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s XC Head to Nationals, Castaneda Named Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montana Bass \u201918<\/strong><\/p>\n

The CC women\u2019s cross country team took fourth in regional championships last weekend, qualifying three runners (Allysa Warling \u201919, Leah Wessler \u201917, and Katie Sandfort \u201917)\u00a0for the NCAA National Meet Nov. 21. This comes after wrapping up October with an exciting win and another Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship<\/a> in October. Additionally, in exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, CC\u2019s Ted Castaneda<\/a> was selected SCAC Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year<\/a> for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n

As part of the team\u2019s conference win, six of the Tiger\u2019s runners finished in the top 10 and junior Leah Wessler captured her second consecutive individual title at Stone Creek Golf Club in Sherman, Texas. She also repeated as SCAC Women’s Runner of the Year.<\/p>\n

Wessler said much of the team\u2019s success this season is owed to the addition of \u201cawesome new runners, who pushed returning athletes to work even harder.\u201d The team also lost only one senior from the previous season. \u201cWe were able to build on the momentum of last year, when we finally beat our rival, Trinity,\u201d said Wessler.<\/p>\n

But the team has overcome some challenges en route to the championship. Last year, tendonitis flared up in Wessler\u2019s ankle during track season, so this year she maintained a regimen of consistent icing and massages. The addition of new recruits and different racing styles required team-wide adjustments. \u201cMembers of a good team need to know and predict the movements of other teammates around them during a race, so people know when to step in for a member who is having a bad race, when to make a move on runners\u00a0of\u00a0another team, and so on,\u201d said Wessler. \u201cI think one of the reasons we were so successful at the conference meet was that we have fully adjusted to the new team dynamics, and we were running for each other as well as for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

About two weeks leading up to a big race, the team \u201ceases up\u201d their workouts. \u201cI usually stop doing two-a-days to rest my legs,\u201d said Wessler. The day before the race, they run the course to make sure everyone knows route. \u201cI\u2019m very good at getting lost,\u201d Wessler admitted.<\/p>\n

Though they felt fairly confident entering the conference meet, Wessler called the course one of the most difficult the team had experienced this season. \u201cUsually my mind wanders a lot during races, but there were so many ups and downs, swamps, mud puddles, and sharp turns, that there was always something to pay attention to,\u201d she explained. \u201cI was pretty stressed by\u00a0how fast my energy and adrenaline were subsiding because of all the hills and mud.\u201d\"Women's<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montana Bass \u201918 The CC women\u2019s cross country team took fourth in regional championships last weekend, qualifying three runners (Allysa Warling \u201919, Leah Wessler \u201917, and Katie Sandfort \u201917)\u00a0for the NCAA National Meet Nov. 21. This comes after wrapping up October with an exciting win and another Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship in October. Additionally, … <\/p>\n

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