This weekend is a big weekend for all college cross country teams across the nation. It is the time of the regional meet. Regionals is your ticket into the national meet. Doesn't that sound awesome? NATIONALS! Only the top two teams from each regional meet are automatically qualified for the national meet. There is a committee that looks over the season results of the teams that placed third and fourth in each regional meet and some are chosen to move on. You can qualify individually too. This process is confusing. For each qualifying meet they remove all the individual racers that qualified as a team from the results. All that are left are the runners that are on teams that didn't qualify. Of that list the top seven of those individuals qualified for nationals on their own.
My team has a good shot of qualifying. It won't come easy though. BUT we get the advantage of having our home course and all of the wartburg fans cheering us on in their orange. It is sooooo surprising when you're running your hardest, about ready to fall over and die, when you look up and see the crowd filled with orange. It gives you a burst of energy and a reason to push just a little harder. I wasn't expecting this kind of support from a college! Go Wartburg and stay orange:)
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