Men's Cross Country Picked to Repeat as SEC Champions
8/25/2010 12:00:00 AM
Aug. 25, 2010
Birmingham, Ala. -
The University of Alabama men's cross country was picked to win its third-straight Southeastern Conference championship as voted on by the coaches in the league's annual preseason poll released Wednesday.
Led by two-time reigning SEC Coach of the Year Joe Walker, the men's squad received seven of the 11 first-place votes to edge out 17-time SEC Champion Arkansas' four first-place votes. The Crimson Tide returns three All-SEC performers, Moses Kiptoo, Fred Samoei and Julius Bor, in search of its third-straight league crown and the fourth in the program's history.
"It's always good news when you see yourself in position to contend for a conference title based on voting by your peers," Walker said. "But we're going to have our work cut out for us. It's going to be a really tight race in the conference among the top two or three teams."
The men's team opens up its 2010 campaign September 10 at the UTC/Powerade Invitational. The 2010 SEC Cross Country Championships, hosted by the University of South Carolina, will be held November 1 in Columbia, S.C.
2010 SEC Cross Country Coaches' Poll
(First-Place Votes in Parentheses)
MEN
1. Alabama (7) 13
2. Arkansas (4) 16
3. Florida 34
4. Georgia 41
T5. Auburn 49
T5. Tennessee 49
7. Kentucky 67
8. Mississippi State 72
9. Ole Miss 73
10. LSU 95
11. Vanderbilt 96
