9/16/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
Sept. 16, 2005
LAS VEGAS - UNLV cross country continues its season, returning to California for the 61st annual Aztec Invitational, held at Balboa Park in San Diego on Saturday morning and hosted by San Diego State University.
This will be the second consecutive meet for the Rebels in the Golden State as they opened their season last weekend at the UC Irvine Invite.
Freshman runner Jenni Shearer opened the season with the best time for the Rebels at the UC Irvine meet, placing 41st with a time of 19:46.43 in the 5k race. Her time in the race is the 11th-fastest time in the MWC at that distance this year.
UNLV will bring a lineup of four seniors, one sophomore and three freshmen to San Diego. Ashley Pierce-Callihan, Erin Hammond, Katie Hughes and Leta Rose are the four upperclassmen while Janessa Hoppe is the lone sophomore. Shearer, Ali Ainsworth and Ashley Lif are all freshmen running in just their second race for the Rebels.
UNLV will be joined in the women's invitational division by 10 other schools, including the University of Arkansas, Loyola Marymount, Northern Arizona and San Diego State. There will also be a women's open division race as well as a men's invitational and open race.
The first race will be the women's open 5k at 8:00 a.m. (PST), followed by the women's invite 5k at 8:40 a.m. The men's open 8k race is at 9:15 a.m. and the men's invite wraps up the meet and it starts at 10:00 a.m.
