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Wyoming's Joe Hall Places 112th at the 2000 NCAA Cross Country Championships Less than ideal conditions make frozen 10K course difficult for competitors.
Nov. 20, 2000 LARAMIE, Wyo. -
In less than ideal conditions, Wyoming senior Joe Hall ran to a 112th place finish out of 255 participants at the 2000 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Ames, Iowa.
Running on a frozen course, with the wind chill plunging the temperature to minus 18 degrees below zero, Hall finished the 10-kilometer course with a time of 31:50.9. "Joe was running strong in hanging in with the top guys for the first half of the race and then his lower back began to stiffen up," said UW cross country coach Jim Sanchez. "After his back started getting stiff he just had to hang on to finish. It's really to bad for him because he had a good chance to finish much higher and earn All-American honors. However, despite the brutal conditions Joe ran as hard as he could." Providence College's Keith Kelly won the individual title with a time
of 30:14.5. The University of Arkansas won the men's team title
followed by Colorado in second and Providence College in third.
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