Big West Championships
Date: Saturday, Nov. 2
Event: 6K
Time: 8:45 a.m. (PDT)
Location: UCR Ag/Ops Course - Riverside, Calif.
Live Results: FinishedResults.com

Notes - Meet #5

IRVINE, Calif. - The UC Irvine women's cross country team returns to Riverside this weekend for the Big West Championships on Saturday, Nov. 2. The Anteaters have nine individuals entered in the 6000-meter race which is slated for an 8:45 a.m. start at the UCR Ag/Ops Course.
 
Competing for the 'Eaters will be Elizabeth Celada Padilla, Hannah Chau, Brenda Dorantes, Daisy Garcia, Anastasia Karnaze, Claire Livengood, McKenna Paulson, Patricia Sanchez and Mariah Theologidy.
 
QUICK HITS
• This will be the third time this season that UC Irvine is running the 6K at UCR Ag/Ops Course.
• UCI has won a league-leading 12 Big West titles with the most recent coming in 2005.
• The Anteaters were dominant in the early years of the conference, claiming nine of the first 10 championships.
• The 'Eaters took fifth at the Big West Championships a year ago.
• That was their best finish at the conference meet since a runner-up showing in 2008.
• Sophomore Hannah Chau led UC Irvine in all four of the team's regular-season meets this year.
• At the UCR Invitational, she ran the fourth-fastest 6K in program history at 20:44.5.
• UCI officially welcomed distance coach Casey Kear to its cross country/track & field staff in August.
• Kear comes to Irvine from Long Beach State where he spent the previous two seasons.
 
LAST TIME OUT
• UC Irvine was sixth out of 23 teams at the Highlander Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 19.
• Hannah Chau recorded her second consecutive top-five individual finish, coming in fifth in a field of 207 runners.
• Chau completed the 6000-meter course in 20:59.56.
• UCI's next three crossed the finish line within a five-second span of each other.
• Sophomore Patricia Sanchez was 33rd with a personal-record 22:04.63.
• Seniors Anastasia Karnaze (22:06.61) and Mariah Theologidy (22:09.62) were right behind her in 35th and 38th, respectively.
• Freshman Claire Livengood rounded out the scorers for the 'Eaters with a lifetime-best 22:29.66 (48th).
 
COACH'S CORNER
"Our goal is to build on last year and try to finish the highest we have in the last 10 years. We are shooting for a top-four team finish, and Hannah is ready to chase a top-five individual finish, and hopefully be in the mix to win the Big West Championship. We feel like we are prepared to do that." - UCI Distance Coach Casey Kear
 
UP NEXT
• UC Irvine will be back in action at the NCAA West Regional in Colfax, Washington, on Friday, Nov. 15.