2001 News

  • Men's Cross Country At NCAA Great Lakes Regional Meet
    November 14, 2001
    All season, the Wittenberg cross country team has been paced by junior Abi Gerstle (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont), the first female runner in school history to ever qualify for the NCAA Division III championship meet a year ago. Two weeks after becoming the first Tiger runner to win an individual NCAC title, Gerstle bettered her personal best time to finish 9th overall at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet at Kalamazoo College with a time of 18:35.
  • Tigers Aim for National Meet
    November 06, 2001
    The Tigers may not have taken part in any competition over the weekend, but they remained busy.
  • Men's Cross Country At NCAC Championship Meet
    October 30, 2001
    All season, junior co-captain Abi Gerstle (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont) has paced the Tiger women's team to strong finish after strong finish. On Saturday at the NCAC Cross Country Championship Meet, Gerstle was at her best, becoming the first Tiger runner to win the individual title and earning Runner of the Year honors in the process.
  • Tigers Prepare for NCAC Championships
    October 24, 2001
    The Tigers didn't compete last week, instead taking advantage of some downtime to prepare for the upcoming North Coast Athletic Conference Championships on Oct. 27 at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind.
  • Men's Cross Country At Manchester Invitational
    October 16, 2001
    Things just keep getting better for the Tigers on the cross country courses, and at just the right time, too. The women's team finished second at the Manchester Invitational on Saturday, while the men's team enjoyed its finest finish of the season, a fourth. Both fields included nine teams.
  • Men's Cross Country At All-Ohio Championship Meet
    October 09, 2001
    In probably the best performance of the still-young 2001 cross country season, the Wittenberg Tiger women's team finished nineth among 19 Division III schools competing in the annual All-Ohio Championships last Friday at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware.
  • Men's Cross Country At Loyola Lakefront Invitational
    October 02, 2001
    Wittenberg got another outstanding performance from junior co-captain Abi Gerstle (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont) at the Loyola Lakefront Invitational in Chicago last weekend. Gerstle, last week's NCAC Runner of the Week, was one of the top Division III finishers in a field that numbered nearly 300, posting a 37th place finish with a time of 19:13.
  • Men's Cross Country At 11th Annual Friendship Invitational at Cedarville University
    September 26, 2000
    The Wittenberg cross country teams ran well in the Friendship Invitational at Cedarville University on Saturday, led by junior Abi Gerstle (Kettering, Ohio/Fairmont), who had her best race of the still-young season.
  • Men's Cross Country at Flyer 5K Invitational
    September 12, 2000
    The Wittenberg cross country program has not competed since Sept. 1, when the Tiger teams both ran third in the University of Dayton Invitational. Senior Sarah Weide (Ft. Wayne, Ind./Homestead) was the Tigers' top finisher in sixth place individually.