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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 25, 2017</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">Contact- Brendan Sullivan (401) 865-1245</span></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Providence Women’s Cross Country Remains Ranked Eighth In Latest Poll</span></b></p>
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normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The Friars’ dropped a single spot in the latest poll.</span></i></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">PROVIDENCE, R.I. –
</span></b><span style="font-family:
Arial">The USTFCCCA released the third National and Regional Rankings polls of the regular season on Tuesday, Sept. 25. The latest poll of the season ranked Providence eighth in the nation and first in the Northeast region.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">The top ten teams in the women’s poll are now Colorado (1), Oregon (2), New Mexico (3), Michigan (4), Stanford (5), San Francisco (6), NC State (7),
Providence (8) and then Arkansas and Penn State, who are both tied for ninth. After having been ranked seventh since the initial poll of the season, the Friars moved to eighth in the polls due in main part to a strong performance by San Francisco at the Roy
Griak Invitational. This move comes despite Providence winning the Battle-in-Beantown Invitational on Friday, Sept. 22.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">The women will next race at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational on Friday, Oct. 13.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">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-3" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">
here.</a> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">For 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-3" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">
here.</a> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">Be sure to follow the Providence Cross Country team on twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/FriarsXCTrack" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">@FriarsXCTrack</a>),
Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/friarsxctrack/?hl=en)" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">@FriarsXCTrack</a>) and Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Providence-College-Cross-Country-and-Track-and-Field-138848779508145/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">Providence
College Cross Country and Track and Field</a> ) for inside looks at the team.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">GO FRIARS!-
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Women’s National Rankings (Ranking (First Place Votes) - Team - Points)</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">1-Colorado (11) – 359</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">2-Oregon - 339</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">3-New Mexico - 333</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">4-Michigan (1)-322</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">5-Stanford- 318</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">6-San Francisco- 296</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">7-NC State- 294</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">8<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">- Providence-272</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">9-Penn State - 248</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">9-Arkansas- 248</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">11-Washington-219</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">12-Notre Dame- 213</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">13-Boise State- 193</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">14-Indiana- 188</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">15-Villanova-187</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">16-Ole Miss- 172</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">17-Iowa State- 169</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">18-Wisconsin- 153</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">19-BYU- 146</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">20-Minnesota-131</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">21-Utah State-124</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">22-Oklahoma State-92</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">23-Georgetown- 87</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">24-Mississippi State- 64</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">25-Vanderbilt-59</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">26-Ohio State-49</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">27-Utah - 42</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">28-Yale-39</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">29-Furman-38</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Arial">30-Michigan State-37</span></p>
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Women’s Northeast Rankings</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;
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</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">1-Providence</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:MingLiU"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial">2-Yale<br>
3-Columbia<br>
4-Dartmouth<br>
5-Cornell<br>
6-Syracuse<br>
7-New Hampshire<br>
8-Brown<br>
9-Harvard<br>
10-Iona</span></p>
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