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June 24, 2010

Milner Officially Releases 2010 USC Aiken Cross Country Schedule

2010 USC Aiken Cross Country Schedule

AIKEN, S.C. – Fifth-year head coach Larry Milner officially released the 2010 University of South Carolina Aiken women’s cross country schedule on Thursday, June 24, 2010.

The 2010 USC Aiken cross country schedule features one home event and eight meets in total, including the 2010 PBC Cross Country Championship and the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional.

USC Aiken commences its 2010 campaign on Friday, Sept. 3 at the Gamecock Invitational at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. The meet is scheduled to get underway at 7 p.m. USC Aiken placed second among all NCAA Division II squads at the 2009 Gamecock Invitational.

Just a little over a week later after the Gamecock Invitational, USC Aiken will compete in the Berry College Invitational in Rome, Ga. on Saturday, Sept. 11. Action in the meet is set to get underway at 9 a.m.

The Pacers will participate in the Coastal Carolina Invitational the next weekend. The Friday meet will begin at 4 p.m. in Conway, S.C.

USC Aiken will return home next to play host to the First Annual Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 25. The race will serve as USC Aiken’s first full meet at the Pacers’ top-of-the-line home course, Pacer Path.

The Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational will feature six different divisions. The collegiate men and women will get things underway first with the 8K collegiate men’s meet set to start at 8 a.m. The women’s collegiate meet will begin shortly thereafter at 8:45 a.m. Immediately after the collegiate meets, high school teams from around the area will compete with girls and boys varsity and girls and boys junior varsity teams scheduled to participate in the First Annual Bridgestone-Pacer Invitational.

The Pacers will have an open weekend next before opening up the month of October by running in the Jaguar Invitational in Augusta, Ga. The Augusta State event will get underway at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9.

USC Aiken will then run in its final regular season meet of the year on Friday, Oct. 15 at the Queens College Invitational. The meet is scheduled to get underway at 4:30 p.m.

The USC Aiken women's cross-country team qualified for the 2009 NCAA Southeast Regionals. The Pacers finished in 19th as a team in a field of 23 teams. Nicole Maitland finished a team-best 32nd with a time of 25:28. The three-time All-Peach Belt Conference selection was one of two Pacers in the top 50 in the regional along with Jani Linde who finished 45th with a time of 25:54.

USC Aiken qualified for the Southeast Regional by virtue of their eighth place finish at the 6k 2009 Peach Belt Conference Cross Country Championships. Maitland finished in 11th place individually, while Linde finished in 18th place.

Maitland was selected to the 2009 Peach Belt Conference Women's Cross Country All-Academic team. Maitland is now a two-time winner of the award as she was also named to the PBC All-Academic team after the 2008 season.