January 27, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Peach Belt Conference hosted its fourth annual Women in Athletics Seminar on Thursday at Augusta State University to provide female student-athletes who may want to pursue a career in collegiate athletics the opportunity to interact with a wide range of professional women in sports. Over 100 female student-athletes from 16 schools and three conferences gathered for the event.
November 19, 2011
SPOKANE, Wash. – The University of Montevallo women’s cross country team concluded its historic 2011 season with a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The cross country team became the first women’s program at UM to advance to the NCAA Finals after a second-place finish at the Southeast Region Championships. The women’s program has been in existence for just eight years but has already soared to the top of the Division II ranks. Junior Kaley Glover (Opelika, Ala./ Beauregard) led the team with a 154th overall finish in a time of 24:42.2.
November 8, 2011
NEW ORLEANS, La. – First-year head coach Tommy Barksdale of the University of Montevallo women’s cross country team was named the Southeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Barksdale becomes just the second coach of a women’s program at UM to be named Region Coach of the Year since the Falcons joined the NCAA.
November 5, 2011
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – For the first time in program history the University of Montevallo women’s cross country team will compete at the NCAA Championships. The Falcons needed to finish in the top two at the NCAA Southeast Region Championship and the Falcons did just that as they finished second among the field of 26 teams. UM edged out third-place Mount Olive by just five points. Juniors Haley Evans (Fairhope, Ala./Fairhope) and Kaley Glover (Opelika, Ala./Beauregard) led the Falcons as they finished 12th and 13th overall in the race, respectively. UM’s top three runners broke the school record for a 6k race including Evans, Glover and freshman Lauren Recchia (Suwanee, Ga./North Gwinnett) who also set the new freshman record for a 6k.
October 27, 2011
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The 2011 Peach Belt Conference Champion University of Montevallo women’s cross country team was awarded four runners on the PBC All-Academic Team. Senior Ginny Davis (Madison, Ala./Bob Jones), junior Haley Evans (Fairhope, Ala./Fairhope), sophomore In-Mi Matsunaga (Enterprise, Ala./Enterprise) and senior Katherine Schofield (Gainesville, Ga./Brookwood) were named to the PBC All-Academic Team.
