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Forty Niners Hosting Bojangles Invitational This Weekend
Sept. 10, 2008
Cross Country team featured in The Week Ahead
Charlotte, N.C. – For the second consecutive year, the Charlotte 49ers will host an on campus invitational as it hosts the Bojangles Invitational on Saturday, September 13 starting at 8:00 a.m. on the campus course.
This year’s event boasts a squadron of nine teams looking to compete for the Bojangles team title.
Last season, Charlotte hosted its first on campus event in over 25 years when the Charlotte Invitational came to town, with the 49ers taking home team gold in both the men’s and women’s races.
This season, the Charlotte Invitational takes on a new name and plenty of new faces with the addition of four new teams to the roster as the meet is double its size from a season ago.
Among the teams looking for Bojangles glory are East Tennessee State, Johnson C. Smith, Lenoir-Rhyne, Livingstone, Montreat, UNC-Asheville, St. Joseph’s, Winthrop and Xavier along with the 49ers.
Charlotte’s campus course takes runners on a tour of a few of the outer reaches of campus with the women running a 5K course and the men running an 8K course near the athletic complex and also traversing the woods that surround the 49er campus.
Runners will start competition at on the Intramural Fields above the Wachovia Fieldhouse and end their campus tour at the start/finish line on the newly resurfaced track inside the Belk Track and Field Center.
The gun will fire on the Bojangles Invitational at 8:00 a.m on Saturday morning as the men’s 8K goes off first, with the women’s 5K to follow at approximately 8:40 a.m.
Parking on campus will be available in the parking deck above the Belk Track and Field Center and there is no charge to park in the deck for athletic events.
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Results will be available immediately following the meet at FlashResults.com and also on your home for Charlotte 49er Athletics, Charlotte49ers.com.
For course maps, click the Course Maps hyperlink above.
Also, be sure to check out the 49er Cross Country team in this week's Week Ahead video by clicking here
