Marietta women take ninth and men finish 16th at All-Ohio Cross Country Championships
Robertson breaks 20-minute mark and places 14th in Division III

Oct. 10, 2008
DELAWARE, Ohio — Marietta cross country returned to action after a week layoff to compete at the All-Ohio Championships on Friday (Oct. 10) afternoon, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University at the Delaware Golf Club. The Pioneer women collected 208 points to place ninth in the 19-team NCAA Division III field, while the Pioneer men compiled 451 points to take 16th among the 20 teams in the NCAA Division III field.

Cedarville won the women's overall championship with 74 points, while Case Western Reserve University took the D-III title with 52 points. Malone captured the men's overall title with 68 points, and Case Western Reserve made it a clean sweep in D-III with 35 points.

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Marietta's Robertson named OAC Cross Country Runner of the Week
Junior led Pioneers to a second place finish at Don Carthcart Invitational on Saturday

Sept. 29, 2008
AUSTINTOWN, Ohio — The Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) office released its Athletes of the Week Monday (Sept. 29 afternoon for the period of Sept. 22-29, and Marietta College junior Randi Robertson (Avon Lake) was named the OAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week.

Robertson, a 2007 All-OAC honoree, led Marietta with a seventh place finish at the Don Carthcart Invitational, hosted by Salisbury (Md.) University on Saturday (Sept. 27). She covered the six-kilometer course in new personal-best time of 22:40, less than one minute behind the overall winner. Robertson's previous career-best performance came at the 2007 NCAA Great Lakes Regional where she took 47th after finishing in 23:20.35.

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Marietta's women place second and men tie for sixth at Don Carthcart Invitational
Robertson and Mickle once again lead Pioneers across the line

Sept. 27, 2008
SALISBURY, Maryland — The Marietta College cross country team headed to Salisbury (Md.) College Saturday (Sept. 27) morning to compete in the Don Carthcart Invitational. The Pioneers made the most of their trip by taking second place in the women’s competition and tying for sixth place in the men’s competition.

Marietta’s women placed three runners in the top 20 en route to collecting 98 points. NCAA Division II Kutztown (Pa.) University won the event with 30 points. The University of Mary Washington (Va.) took third with 124 points, while host Salisbury came in fourth place with 137 points. Marietta’s men had three runners finish in the top 50 in Saturday’s eight-kilometer competition, which was won by East Stroudsburg (Pa.) University with 46 points. Host Salisbury took second with 53 points and Mary Washington third with 82 points. Marietta tied for fourth with Roanoke (Va.) College as both compiled 181 points.

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Marietta's women place fourth and men take fifth at Carl Broughton Invitational
Robertson and Mickle pace Pioneers' performances with second and 15th place finishes

Sept. 13, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — Junior Randi Robertson (Avon Lake) finished second overall in the women’s competition and junior Josh Mickle (Madison) placed 15th overall in the men’s competition to highlight the Marietta College cross country team’s performance at the sixth annual Carl Broughton Invitational Saturday (Sept. 13) afternoon at the Broughton Nature and Wildlife Education Area. The Pioneer women collected 82 points to finish fourth as a team, while the Pioneer men totaled 131 points to place fifth as a team.

Heidelberg College won the men’s race with a combined score of 26 points. Otterbein College (46 points) and Notre Dame College (94 points) finished second and third, respectively. Otterbein captured the women’s title with 33 points, while Alderson-Broaddus (W.Va.) College (78 points) edged out Saint Vincent (Pa.) College (79 points) to place second.

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Marietta College cross country to host Carl Broughton Invitational on Saturday
Men’s 8K race will begin at 11 a.m.; women’s 5K race will follow at 12 p.m.

Sept. 12, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — On Saturday (Sept. 13) morning, cross country athletes, coaches and fans will descend on the Broughton Nature and Wildlife Education Area when Marietta College plays host to the sixth annual Carl Broughton Invitational. Action will be start with the men’s eight-kilometer race at 11 a.m., while the women’s five-kilometer race will begin at 12 p.m.

Head Coach Derek Stanley and his Pioneer harriers will welcome 10 teams to the grounds, which are located just three miles from the Marietta College campus on Route 821. The Broughton course will also be the site of the 2008 OAC Cross Country Championships, which take place on Nov. 1. [Directions]

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Marietta cross country opens season at home with Ohio Valley
Pioneers and Fighting Scots combine to run at Broughton Nature and Wildlife Education Area

Aug. 30, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — The Marietta College women and men's cross country teams began their 2008 season by combining with Ohio Valley University to run a mixed race Saturday (Aug. 30) at the Broughton Nature and Wildlife Education Area. The two schools split into a red and a blue squad before taking off together on the race, which was four kilometers for the women and six kilometers for the men.

Marietta athletes accounted for the top five finishers in both races. Junior standout Randi Robertson (Avon Lake) was the first women to cross the line. She finished in 16:20.80. Junior Josh Mickle (Madison), running in his first collegiate cross country race, won the men's race after finishing in 20:57.39.

Marietta is back in action on Sept. 13 when it hosts the Carl Broughton Invitational, which begins at 11 a.m.

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2008 Marietta College cross country preview
Pioneer men and women looking for continued improvement this fall

Aug. 18, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — The Marietta College women's and men's cross country teams hope to continue what the program has established over the past four years, improvement. Since Derek Stanley took over the program as the head coach in 2004, the women's team has moved up to sixth place in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) and the men's squad has progressed to eighth.

"We have steadily improved in both programs, but you just don't make large jumps with the depth and quality in the conference,” Stanley said. "We have to be patient and continue our climb to the top by performing consistently and competitively each meet, especially at the conference and regional championship meets.”

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