Field Selected for 2005 NCAA Division III
Men's Cross Country Championships

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee has announced the team and individual qualifiers for the 2005 NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championships.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective NCAA regions.

Twenty-four teams of 7 men each were selected to participate in the championships. The top teams from each of the 8 regions automatically qualified. Additional at-large berths (16) were awarded based on the following formula: The regions with the first 16 finishers in the previous year's championships were awarded the additional berths. No region can receive more than 5 berths.

Forty-seven individuals were selected to participate in the championships. All regions automatically qualify the first 4 individuals not on a team. Additional at-large berths (15) were awarded to those regions with the first 15 finishers in the previous year's championships.

Ohio Wesleyan University will host the 2005 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships on Saturday at the Methodist Theological School and Dornoch Golf Club in Delaware, Ohio. The men's race will begin at noon Eastern Standard Time.

The teams and individual qualifiers from each region are as follows:

Atlantic Region
Teams: Geneseo State and The College of New Jersey.
Individuals: Matt DeShane, Plattsburgh State; Hany Abdallah, New York University; Charles Joslyn, Cortland State; Mark Stevens, Rochester.

Central Region
Teams: Carleton, Hamline, St. John's (Minn.), Nebraska Wesleyan and Wartburg.
Individuals: David Borner, Bethel (Minn.); Ben Grant, Loras; Adam Bohach, Luther; Sam Hauck, St. Olaf.

Great Lakes Region
Teams: Calvin, Anderson (Ind.) and Mount Union.
Individuals: Mike Sawicki and Michael Cauley, Otterbein; Brad Schroeder, Ohio Northern; Stephen Hrinda, Case Western Reserve; Chad Bennett, DePauw; and Cyril Pinchak, John Carroll.

Mideast Region
Teams: Haverford, Allegheny and Carnegie Mellon.
Individuals: Brad Ruffo, Penn State-Behrend; Tyson Evensen, Greg Wetzel and Jason Theobald, Elizabethtown; John Mercuri, Scranton; Matt Liebal and Tom Rhodes, Dickinson; and Macharia Yuot and Joe Francisco, Widener.

Midwest Region
Teams: North Central (Ill.), Wisconsin-La Crosse, Chicago, Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and Wheaton (Ill.).
Individuals: Tyler Sigl, Wisconsin-Platteville; Brennan Bonner and Kevin Gale, Washington Univ. in St. Louis; Dave Billings, Ripon; Gary Garcia, Wisconsin-Whitewater; Josh Martsolf; Greenville; and Matt Kramer, Wisconsin-Superior.

New England Region
Teams: Keene State, Tufts, and Wesleyan (Conn.).
Individuals: Neal Holtschulte and Stephen Wills, Williams; Dan Johnson, Bates; Tomas Morrissey, Amherst; Mike Flint, Coast Guard; James Butcher, Middlebury; Avery Bouchard, Bridgewater State.

South/Southeast Region
Team: Centre.
Individuals: Ricky Flynn, Lynchburg; Nathan Johnson, Washington & Lee; Husein Nasiro Sigo, Methodist; and Matthew Manning, Mississippi College.

West Region
Teams: Pomona-Pitzer and Willamette.
Individuals: Douglas Blackburn, Whitworth; Dan Hayman, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps; Julian Boggs and Daniel Castaneda, Colorado College; Kevin Chaves, Occidental; Kota Reichert, Puget Sound.

 
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