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The NCAA News -- October 11, 1999

Division II Women's Cross Country

Field: A total of 132 individual competitors will be selected. Seventeen teams of seven individuals (with at least two teams from each of six regions) plus 13 individuals (at least two from each region) will make up the field.

Dates and sites: Regional qualifying at six sites will be November 6. The championships will be November 20 at Missouri Southern State.

Information/results: The fax-on-demand telephone number is 770/563-1133 (pin code 1915); request numbers are 1285 for dates/sites and 5077 for championships results. Regional results will appear in the November 22 issue of The NCAA News, and championships results will be published December 6.

Championships notes: Adams State remained unbeaten in NCAA championships after claiming the 1998 title with three competitors in the top 11 finishers. The Grizzlies made their NCAA debut in 1992 and have won seven straight crowns. They appear to be primed for another title run this year based on a second-place finish in the Colorado State Open, just 11 points behind a Colorado squad that placed seventh in the 1998 Division I championships ... Western State, which has five runner-up finishes in the last seven years, currently is third behind Adams State and UC Davis in the Division II Cross Country Coaches Association rankings. The Mountaineers were fourth in the Colorado State Open ... Fourth-ranked Edinboro was the top non-Division I team in the Spiked Shoe Invite at Penn State, finishing fourth overall and just in front of seventh-ranked Shippensburg.