NEW ORLEANS - When head coach Eric Peterson arrived at Tulane last fall he knew that he had a task ahead of him. He was already behind on recruiting and had put together a talented, but young coaching staff that was recruiting for the first time. With that said, all of the difficulty that he experienced early on has been washed away after announcing a 19-person recruiting class that will arrive on campus in a few short weeks to begin building the Green Wave cross country and track and field programs.
Kizzee Goes Under 24-seconds in 200 Meter Dash for First Time Since 2009 NCAA National Meet
HOUSTON - The foundation looks to be settling for the Tulane University track and field program under first year head coach Eric Peterson. The Green Wave had ten different athletes compete on the final day of the Conference USA Indoor Championships at Yeoman Fieldhouse on the University of Houston campus, with seven of those athletes holding freshman or sophomore status. Jamie Riles improved on her 400-meter times, finishing sixth in the finals, but improved on her career best mark that she set yesterday.
WACO, Texas - Sophomore Julia Whitrock placed 27th overall as the Tulane women's cross country team finished 15th of 21 teams at the NCAA South Central Regional Championship Saturday at Cottonwood Creek Golf Course in Waco, Texas. Whitrock posted a team of 22:09, an improvement of 40 seconds off her performance as a redshirt freshman last season at the 6K regional championships.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas - The Tulane men's cross country team placed eighth at the Conference USA Championship Saturday, while the Green Wave women finished 10th at Bear Branch Sportsfields in The Woodlands, Texas. Sophomore Julia Whitrock paced the Green Wave women in 20th to earn Third Team All-Conference USA honors, while sophomore Brian Lozes led the Tulane men in 42
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Sparked by the return of a trio of runners, the Tulane women's cross country team placed 20th at the Chile Pepper Invitational Saturday. Julia Whitrock, Annette Glaz and Rebecca Coady each returned from injuries to be the first three Green Wave runners across the line.
CLINTON, Miss. - The Tulane men's cross country team turned in a sixth place finish Saturday at the the Mississippi College Watson Ford Invitational as sophomore Brian Lozes paced the Green Wave for the fifth-straight meet, finishing 12th among Division I runners
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Coach Eric Peterson was looking for two things out of his men's and women's cross country teams: improve upon its times and ability to run as a group. Fittingly, Saturday's Gulf Coast Stampede saw the Green Wave bunch up as a group, while nine of 14 student-athletes turned in season or personal bests. Tulane's women finished fourth, led by sophomore Johanna Gretschel, while sophomore Brian Lozes once again paced the men, to a sixth-place finish.
BATON ROUGE - The Green Wave men's and women's cross country team each posted finishes in the top six of the LSU Invitational Saturday morning in Baton Rouge. Freshman Katherine Crabtree paced the women's squad while Brian Lozes was the top Tulane men's runner for the third straight event.
NEW ORLEANS - Eric Peterson was named Director of the Tulane men's and women's cross-country and track and field programs, Director of Athletics Rick Dickson announced on Wednesday. Peterson, a former distance runner at the University of Oregon, spent the previous 16 seasons at UCLA and will take over the Green Wave programs immediately.
RUSTON, La. - Tulane junior cross country runner Rebecca Coady won the Mook 4 Invitational at Lincoln Parrish Park, turning in a time of 11:52 on a shortened two-mile course. Brian Lozes finished sixth in the men's race in 21:25 to lead Tulane.
New Orleans - The 2009 edition of the Tulane University Athletics Hall of Fame will feature three Green Wave All-America student-athletes from the early 2000's, including Michael Aubrey, Solomon Kandie and Seth Marler, a two-sport female athlete in Mashandra Hall and George Sweeney, who served as the Tulane beatwriter for Times-Picayune and its predecessor newspapers for almost half a century, was the recipient of the Billy Slatten Award.