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The
Colorado men tour the course.
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Paul
Morrison (left) will be Texas' lone representative on the men's
side.
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The
Portland men's team.
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We
believe this is NC State's Bobby Mack.
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The
Texas A&M men.
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NC
State's Lucinda Hull.
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NC
State twins Krisin and Kara Price.
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Kansas
State's Matthew Chesang strikes a pose.
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The
Stanford women run the beginning of the course.
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Stanford
and BYU are considered the favorites on the women's side.
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Sunday's
weather was cool, but the temperature was expected to drop significantly
over night.
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The
Texas women's team.
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Auburn's
two qualifiers: Catherine Wanyioke (left) and Angela Homan.
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Colorado
coach Mark Wetmore at Sunday afternoon's press conference.
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New
Stanford coach Andrew Gerard.
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L-R:
Alistair Cragg, Grant Robison, Ian Dobson and Dathan Ritzenhein.
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Alistair
Cragg is the top returning runner but had surgery early in the season.
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Dathan
Ritzenhein sat out last year's meet with an injury but is one of
the lead contenders this year.
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Gavin
Thompson is hoping to pick up where teammate Boaz Cheboiywo (the
'01 champ) left off.
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Women's
coaches Dena Evans (Stanford), Pat Shane (BYU), Laurie Henes (NC
State) and Michael Whittlesey (UNC).
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Pat
Shane.
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Alicia
Craig of Stanford - the 10,000m champ outdoors - has led Stanford
all season.
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NC
State and UNC have had many close races against each other this
season.
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L-R:
Women's contenders Michaela Mannova, Kim Smith, Shalane Flanagan
and Alicia Craig.
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Flanagan's
UNC teammates came to the press conference to support her.
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Mannova
said this year's course is much more interesting than last year's.
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