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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 19, 2017</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact- Brendan Sullivan (401) 865-1245</span></font></div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Providence Women’s Cross Country Remains Ranked In Regional and National Polls</b></span></font></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>The Friars’ rankings did not change from the last release.</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>PROVIDENCE, R.I. – </b>The USTFCCCA released the second National and Regional Rankings polls of the regular season on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
The latest poll of the season has the Providence women ranked seventh. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the regional rankings, both teams’ rankings remain unchanged with the women ranked first and the men ranked fourth.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There was no change to the top eight ranked team in this release of the national rankings. The teams ranked in front of Providence continue
to be Colorado (1), Oregon (2), New Mexico (3), Michigan (4), Stanford (5), and North Carolina State (6).</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Providence men dropped out of the national rankings in this edition of the national rankings. The Friar men look to jump back into the
rankings with a strong performance at the Battle in Beantown. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Friars will race next at the Boston College Battle in Beantown Invitational on Friday, Sept. 22. Providence will race full squads for
the first time at the Battle in Beantown.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information regarding the women’s rankings, click <a href="http://www.ustfccca.org/2017/09/featured/2017-ncaa-di-cross-country-womens-national-coaches-poll-week-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1">here.</font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information regarding the men’s rankings, click <a href="http://www.ustfccca.org/2017/09/featured/2017-ncaa-di-cross-country-mens-national-coaches-poll-week-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1">here.</font></a></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Be sure to follow the Providence Cross Country team on twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/FriarsXCTrack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1">@FriarsXCTrack</font></a>)
, Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/friarsxctrack/?hl=en)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1">@FriarsXCTrack</font></a>) and Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Providence-College-Cross-Country-and-Track-and-Field-138848779508145/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1">Providence
College Cross Country and Track and Field</font></a> ) for inside looks at the team. </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">-<b>GO FRIARS!-</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Women’s National Rankings (Ranking (First Place Votes) - Team - Points)</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1-Colorado (11) – 359</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2-Oregon - 336</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3-New Mexico - 334</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4-Michigan (1)-324</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5-Stanford- 317</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6-NC State- 298</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7-<b>Providence-285</b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8<b>-</b>San Francisco-272</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9-Penn State - 240</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10-Notre Dame - 235</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10-Arkansas- 235</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">12-Washington-218</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">13-Villanova-176</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">14-BYU-172</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">15-Boise State-170</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">16-Wisconsin-166</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">17-Ole Miss-156</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">18-Indiana-149</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">19-Minnesota-130</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">20-Michigan State-117</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">21-Oklahoma State-111</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">22-Utah State-108</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">23-Iowa State-96</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">24-Mississippi State- 78</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">25-Georgetown-73</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">26-Utah-59</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27-Ohio State - 56</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">28-Missouri-51</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">29-Vanderbilt-30</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">29-Yale-30</span></font></div>
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Women’s Northeast Rankings</b><font style="font-family: MingLiU, serif, EmojiFont;"><b><br>
</b></font><b>1-Providence</b><font style="font-family: MingLiU, serif, EmojiFont;"><b><br>
</b></font>2-Yale<br>
3-Syracuse<br>
4-Columbia<br>
5-Cornell<br>
6-Harvard<br>
7-Brown<br>
8-New Hampshire<br>
9-Dartmouth<br>
10-Iona</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1-Northern Arizona (8)-351</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2-Stanford (2)-346</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3-Syracuse-333</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4-Colorado (2)- 328</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5-Arkansas-314</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6-BYU-303</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7-Wisconsin-283</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8-Oregon-264</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9-Oklahoma State-254</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10-Iona-242</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">11-Washington State-217</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">12-Furman- 213</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">13-Iowa State-210</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">14-Southern Utah-188</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">15-Virginia-186</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">16-Georgetown-180</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">17-Portland-164</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">18-Colorado State-147</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">19-Middle Tennessee-145</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">20-UCLA-104</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">21-Indiana-93</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">22-Tulsa-92</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">23-Ole Miss-91</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">24-Virginia Tech-87</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">25-Michigan State-86</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">26-Boise State-79</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27-Illinois-63</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">27-Columbia-63</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">29-Eastern Michigan-50</span></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" style="font-family: Calibri, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">30-NC State-43</span></font></div>
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</b></font>1-Syracuse<br>
2-Columbia<br>
3-Iona<br>
<b>4-Providence</b><b><br>
</b>5-Cornell<br>
6-Brown<br>
7-Stony Brook<br>
8-Dartmouth<br>
9-West Point<br>
10-Yale</span></font></div>
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