Tennessee Tech cross country and track & field coach Tony Cox has announced the addition of nine student-athletes to his team rosters, inking two runners to the men’s squad and seven for the women’s team.
Sam Taylor and Tiffany Palmer have been named the Most Valuable Runners on the 2009 Tennessee Tech cross country teams, and several other team awards were also announced recently by Golden Eagle coach Tony Cox.
Senior Tiffany Palmer earned first-team all-OVC honors with a seventh place finish at the 2009 Ohio Valley Conference championships Saturday morning, pacing the Tech women’s team to a seventh place finish at Percy Warner Park.
Senior Tiffany Palmer leads the Golden Eagles into the OVC meet Saturday, but it will be Tech's younger runners such as freshman Courtney Koehl (right) who will provide depth for a higher finish.
Tiffany Palmer ran the women’s 5K race in 19:27.14 to finish in eighth place at the Evnasville Invitational Saturday as the Tennessee Tech women’s cross country team took home an eighth place overall finish.
Sam Taylor finished in sixth place out of 127 runners at the Furman Invitational over the weekend to lead the Tennessee Tech men’s cross country team to a fourth place finish in the meet.
Senior Tiffany Palmer led the way for the Tennessee Tech women’s cross country team Friday afternoon at Southern Hills Golf Course as the Golden Eagles finished exactly in the middle of the seven-team standings.
New champions will be crowned Friday in both the men's and women's races during the TTU Invitational at Southern Hills Golf Course. Six men's team will tour the 8K course at 3 p.m., followed seven women's teams in a 5K run at 4 p.m.
Tiffany Palmer and Sam Taylor led the Tennessee Tech cross country teams Saturday at the Vanderbilt Invitational. The Golden Eagle women finished in 10th place among 18 teams while the men were sixth of 16 team.
It will be a banner day for the Golden Eagle football program and a first for the women's track and cross country program when Tennessee Tech Athletics inductees five new members into the TTU Sports Hall of Fame Oct 30 during Homecoming festivities.
Five freshmen made solid debuts Saturday for the Tech cross country teams, while senior Tiffany Palmer and sophomore Sam Taylor led the Golden Eagles in the Sewanee Invitational.
The Tennessee Tech men's and women's cross country teams get the 2009 season underway Saturday morning when they run in the Sewanee Invitational. The men's 8K race begins at 10 a.m., while the starting gun for the women's 5K event will sound at 11 a.m.
The Golden Eagles are picked fifth in the Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll, with individual honors going to senior Katie Kenline and junior Leah Meffert, who were listed as first-team preseason all-OVC.