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Updates of the meet will be posted on the teams' social media pages on Twitter and Instagram at the handle, @ElonXCTF.
 
About the Field
There will a representative from 18 teams in both the men's and women's races at the meet on Friday. Along with Elon and host school East Carolina, other notable programs at the meet include VCU, Richmond, Duke, UNCW, College of Charleston, No. 9 NC State, UNCG, Coastal Carolina and Western Carolina.
 
In Competition
• Elon is slated to have 13 women race at the meet on Friday. Representing the Phoenix women will be Maria Ahm, Melissa Anastasakis, Grace Dellapa, Ashley Irby, Scolasticah Kemei, Sami King, Lauren Lynch, Hannah Miller, Hannah Preeo, Emily Smith, Margaret Springer, Sophia Tasselmyer and Anna Twomey.
• On the men's side, the nine person-group to don the maroon and gold will include Martin Adams, Richie Kasper, Tamer Metwalli, Andrew Miller, Dillon Selfors, Mitchell Shannon, Aidan Tierney, Kieran Ungemach and Connor White.
 
Last Time Out
Elon had a select group compete at the Royals XC Challenge last Friday, Oct. 11, at McAlpine Park in Charlotte, N.C. The Phoenix men were 21^st at the meet with 628 points while the women's team was 25^th with 685 points. Both squads raced without many of their top runners at the meet.
 
Tierney clocked the third-fastest time in school history in the 8K, crossing the line at 24:33 and finished 16^th overall in a race of over 500 competitors. The East Greenwich, R.I., native later earned the Colonial Athletic Association Men's Cross Country Co-Runner of the Week for his performance this past Tuesday, Oct. 15.
 
In the women's 5K, Hannah Miller was the top finisher for the maroon and gold women with her time of 19:17.5.
 
Up Next
Elon shifts its attention for the 2019 CAA Cross Country Championships in hosted by James Madison University in New Market, Va., on Nov. 2.