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Last year's winners in Collegiate 10k Road Race Championships may have some challengersPublished by
Last year's winners in Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k may have some challengers
Ryan Hagen and Rachel Ward may be hearing some footsteps as they try to repeat their men’s and women’s titles in the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10k on Saturday. The race will serve as the Collegiate Running Association’s national championship 10k road race for the fifth consecutive year. Steve Taylor, CRA co-founder and the University of Richmond men’s cross country coach, believes this could be the CRA’s strongest field. The CRA awards NCAA-sanctioned cash prizes to the top 10 male and female finishers who currently are enrolled in at least one college class. Race winners receive $2,000. Runners-up receive $1,000. Hagen, a graduate student at Mary Baldwin and former Virginia Tech standout, won the 6.2-mile race in 30:37 last year. He’ll likely have competition from Georgia Tech’s Matt McDonald, who has run 29:38 in the 10k; Arkansas’ Cale Wallace, who earned second-team all-SEC honors in the steeplechase; Auburn’s Samuel Mueller, who has run 29:49 in the 10k and placed fifth in the 2015 Collegiate Half Marathon national championships; and Youngstown State’s Ryan Roush, who has run 29:25 in the 10k. Also in the mix will be three UR runners — Richmond native Miles Clikeman, Tim Gruber and Johnny Hogue — Ohio University’s Joshua Park and James Madison’s Harrison Toney. Ward, a graduate student at Virginia, ran away from the women’s field last year, winning by 52 seconds in 35:55. She was 15th in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team trials in the 10k. Read the full article at: www.richmond.com
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