The women's cross country team finished seventh and the men's team placed eighth at Friday's Great American Cross Country Festival in Cary, N.C.
Top-team finishers freshman Emily Harrison and senior Cheryl Carr crossed the finish line within a second of each other to place 20th and 21st, respectively, in the women's race.
Duke won the meet 56-85 over second place North Carolina. By comparison, the Cavaliers finished with a score of 204, 62 points behind sixth place N.C. State and 25 points ahead of eighth place Indiana.
On the men's side, senior Will Christian turned in the team's best individual performance of the day. He placed fifth overall in the men's 8K race with a time of 24:32. It followed up a performance last year at Great American in which he finished sixth. His time this year, however, bettered his mark last year by nearly a minute and a half.
The members of the men's squad, however, did not fair as well as their captain. Sophomore Alex Tatu was the next Cavalier to cross the line, finishing 43 places behind Christian. Three more Cavaliers crossed the line within 10 seconds of Tatu, wrapping up the scoring for the men at 228 points, putting them behind meet champion Michigan (92 points) and Regional rivals N.C. State (97), William and Mary (122) and Georgia (174).
The next meet for both the men and the women will be in two weeks at the Pre-Nationals meet in Terre-Haute, IN.
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