Sunseri was the team's top freshman runner this year, earning All-Conference USA honors. |
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Charlotte's Nick Sunseri to Compete for Canadian Junior National Spot
Nov. 24, 2004
Charlotte, N.C. - Charlotte freshman Nick Sunseri will be racing for a spot on the Canadian Junior National Team next weekend. Nick will compete for one of six spots on the Junior National team, in a race at Sunnybrook Park in Toronto, Canada. The competition gets underway at 12:45 pm on Saturday, December 4.
In his first season as a 49er, Sunseri had a successful cross country season, earning All-Conference USA honors at the league's championship event. Nick, also clocked the fastest time in a 10k race for a freshman in school history, placing 36th overall at the NCAA Southeast Regional Meet in a time of 31:21.
In 2003, 197 athletes competed for the six spots in the junior race on a snowy and muddy Sunnybrook Park course.
The top six finishers earn a spot to compete in the World Cross Country Meet, to be held in St. Etienne - St. Galmier, France on March 20. Nick, who graduated from Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, grew up in Ontario, Canada and has dual citizenship.
According to Charlotte head coach Brad Herbster, the Canadian race should be hotly contested. It features the country's best athletes, many of whom compete in the NCAA. The favorite going into the race, says Herbster, is Michigan's Mike Woods, who on Monday ran in the NCAA cross country race and placed 174th overall.
"Nick can compete well in this field, and our goal with is to get him in one of those six spots and a ticket to France", said Herbster.
Last year at the World Meet in Brussels, 118 athletes and 18 teams competed.
"Making the world team and racing against the world's best is something every athlete strives to do," Herbster continued. "Nick will hopefully have that opportunity."
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