Chicago's men's track and field team came away with an impressive finish against an incredibly tough field, while the women couldn't make the trip due to perilous weather.
In the first week of the track and field season, the South Siders have already claimed both UAA and national weekly honors and plan to keep up the success this weekend at the Private School Championships.
Both the men's and women's indoor track and field teams took first at the Phoenix Invitational last weekend, giving a preview of what's to come this season.
At the Midwest Regional qualifier Saturday, the women took first and the men sixth. Both fields featured nearly 40 teams, with nine men’s teams and four women’s teams that are nationally ranked.
The time has come for cross country to prove they belong on the national stage. This weekend in Rock Island, IL, the men’s and women’s seasons will either lead to national berths or early exits.
Chicago's cross country team ran with a younger, but not necessarily hipper, crowd this past weekend at the three-mile North Central Red and White Open, as the men placed 3rd, and the women placed 5th.
After a trip to Pittsburgh this past weekend, the women of Chicago’s cross country team can call themselves UAA champions for the second year in a row. The men managed to capture a third-place finish.
The men’s and women’s cross-country teams continued along the path of success this past weekend as they took sixth and second, respectively, at the Brooks Invitational in Oshkosh, WI.
This weekend, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams will travel to Oshkosh, WI for the Brooks Invitational. Over 1150 runners from 40 teams will compete.
Fourth-year Billy Whitmore has run for four years on three varsity teams: cross country, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field. He loves running.
The Maroons didn't pick up any new NCAA qualifying times this past week, but five South Siders maintained their qualifying positions from this year's previous meets.
The Maroons travel to Wheaton College this weekend to compete in the Wheaton Twilight Invitational, their last chance to prepare for next weekend's UAA Championships.
The men’s squad scored 60.83 points, finishing behind NAIA Olivet Nazarene (105.5), DI Loyola (105), and DIII Carthage (96.33). The women scored 59 points to finish behind Loyola, Carthage, and DIII Illinois Wesleyan.
The South Siders will head north this weekend to compete in the Benedictine Invitational. The meet will take place in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, with over 20 teams and clubs from around the Midwest registered to compete.
The men’s and women’s squads both finished fifth, their combined scores good enough for a fourth place finish (120.5) overall behind DI teams DePaul (284) and UIC (125.5). The only DIII team to beat the Maroons was North Central (178), which currently ranks first in the nation on the men’s side..
The Maroons will compete in the Chicagoland Championship this weekend. The event will feature 30 teams and representatives from all three divisions of NCAA competition.
Fourth-years Billy Whitmore and Julia Sizek claimed all-American honors for the second time this year by finishing seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 5,000m run at the NCAA National Championship.
The Maroons had mixed results this weekend, as fourth-years Julia Sizek and Billy Whitmore qualified for the NCAA Championship with times from earlier this season, while other Maroons failed to qualify in their last chance meet at UW–Stevens Point.
[media id=”104682″ align=”left”/]The South Siders will travel to Cleveland, OH this weekend to compete for the conference title. There, they will face off against the best of the UAA in an effort to claim their first conference title in three years for the women and five for the men. “We’re all really excited about the...
In their final outing before the UAA Championships, the Maroons had a strong showing at the Margaret Bradley Invitational. Both the men and women finished atop the leaderboard, with winning scores of 127 and 140, respectively.
In a display of regional power, the Maroons’ men and women placed fourth and third, respectively, in a field of 18 teams at the Chicagoland Championships this weekend.
The Maroons will compete in the Chicagoland Championships this weekend, where they will face 17th-ranked North Central just one week after Chicago’s women narrowly relegated the Cardinals to fourth place at the UW–Whitewater Invitational. Over 15 teams from around the Windy City will compete in the Championships. .
Two separate days of competition for the men and women yielded two very different results for the Maroons’ squads this past weekend. The women scored 82 points en route to a third-place finish while the men managed only 38 to finish seventh.
Chicago’s men will compete against the top four teams in the nation. UW–Oshkosh, UW–La Crosse, North Central (IL), and UW–Whitewater, ranked first through fourth in the nation, respectively, will most likely dominate the field. But the Maroons, ranked 52nd, hope to make an impact against the strong competition..
After an impressive display against third-ranked UW–Oshkosh last Saturday, the Maroons will be traveling to Bloomington, IL this weekend to compete in the Illinois Wesleyan Triangular. There, the South Siders will encounter their conference rival Wash U along with host, Illinois Wesleyan. The men, currently ranked 56th in the nation, will enter the meet as...
After a full year of training, Whitmore’s 11th–place finish at the NCAA DIII National Championships in Terre Haute, IN capped not only the season for the Maroons, but his own four-year career.
Fourth-year captain Billy Whitmore will represent Chicago by himself this Saturday when he travels to Terre Haute, IN to compete in the DIII National Cross Country Championship.
Unfortunately for the Maroons, only the top-five teams from the Midwest Region move on to the National Championship. They scored a total of 171 points, 26 points behind fifth place UW-Eau Claire.
The Maroons traveled west to Warrenville, IL last Friday, where they placed first in the North Central Open. 19 Maroons competed, comprising exactly half of the field of 38. It seemed appropriate, then, for a competition dominated by Chicago athletes to be defined by usual Chicago weather. After a week of rain, the course was...
The Maroons travel to Oshkosh, Wisconsin this weekend for the UW–Oshkosh Brooks Invitational. This will be the first time they return to action since late September when they placed an impressive fifth at the Loyola Lakefront Invitational. In the Loyola Lakefront Invitational, the men’s team competed against numerous high-caliber opponents, including Division I teams Wisconsin...
Four years—four national semifinal appearances. Chicago (22–4) topped Johns Hopkins (18–6) 5–1 in Monday’s national quarterfinal in Cary, N.C. But the score does not tell the entire story. While fourth-year Jennifer Kung and third-year Linden Li gave the Maroons an early team lead with an 8–5 win at No. 2 doubles, an 8–6 loss by...
After entering the competition ranked eighth in the 10,000-meter, Sizek was left disappointed by her performance. Next, Kayla McDonald will take to the track in the 800-meter.
Fifteen South Siders competed in the North Central Last Chance Meet this past weekend, where Chicago participants achieved some very good individual marks.
At the Penultimate, the Maroons focused on individual athletes getting their personal marks up in order to qualify for Nationals. Despite that, they still competed well as a team and as individuals.
Fourth-year high jumper Paige Peltzer represented Chicago by herself this past weekend at the Wisconsin Twilight meet in Madison, WI. She topped out at a height of 1.51 meters, placing seventh out of 12 competitors.
In the dual-meet style competition, the Maroons defeated UIC by 28 points, Chicago State by 144 points, and a diluted Northwestern by 214 points. Chicago lost to DePaul by 70 points.
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