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For
Immediate Release: October 26, 2000 UT Pan
American to Host Adrian Martinez Invitational Cross Country Meet
Saturday Morning EDINBURG
– The University of Texas-Pan American Cross Country Team will host
the Adrian Martinez Memorial Cross Country Invitational Saturday morning
at 9 a.m. at the Ebony Hills Golf Course in Edinburg. The Broncs
and Lady Broncs will take on regional rival, Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi in the meet. UTPA
won the 1999 meet, which included Monterrey Tech.
The men’s race will be four miles, while the women’s race
will be two miles in length. Perla Rios
and April Hipolito lead UTPA’s women’s squad.
Rios has finished in the top-15 of all five meets this season. Hipolito is coming off her best finish of the season, a sixth
place showing at the Southwest Texas State Short Course Meet.
She has two top 10 finishes so far this season.
Also making a strong impression on the team this season is Patty
Villareal, a freshman from San Juan.
Villareal placed in the top-20 at the Southwest Texas State meet
last week as well. On the
men’s side Danny Salazar leads a young squad, which has improved as
the season has gone on. Salazar
is one of five different Broncs to place first on the team in a meet.
Salazar has been the first Bronc finisher in each of the last two
meets. This will
be the third time this season that Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and UTPA
have raced against one another. The
Broncs and Lady Broncs competed in the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Opening Splash on September 1st, the first-ever cross-country
meet at TAMUCC. The two
teams also met at the Southwest Texas State Invitational on October 7th. First year
Head Coach Dan Laufer and assistant coach Gabriel Rodriguez are looking
for a solid showing from the Bronc and Lady Bronc Harriers this
Saturday. Adrian Martinez, who was a member of the cross-country and track teams at UTPA, died in an automobile accident in the summer of 1995. The meet is held annually in his memory. |