{"id":9834,"date":"2011-11-19T10:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2011-12-06T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:01:02","slug":"nafziger-competes-at-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/nafziger-competes-at-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Nafziger Competes at NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just first season running at Eastern Mennonite, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emuroyals.com\/sports\/mxc\/2011-12\/bios\/nafziger%20daniel%20te7x\">Dan Nafziger<\/a><\/strong> (Harrisonburg, VA\/Harrisonburg) earned a trip to Nationals.\u00a0 The cold weather in the middle of November in Wisconsin did him no favors, however, as a leg injury flared up and affected his performance.<\/p>\n<p>Nafziger, who missed last season with an injury after transferring from D-I George Mason, was running 150<sup>th<\/sup> after the first mile, but his splits slowed as his Achilles acted up.\u00a0 He finished with a time of 26:31.56 on the 8k course, taking 254<sup>th<\/sup> out of 279 runners at the Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne, WI.\u00a0 UW-Oshkosh was the host school.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not finishing as high as hoped, Coach Jason Lewkowicz was still proud of his runner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dan didn&#8217;t have the race that he wanted to today,&#8221; said Lewkowicz, &#8220;but I am so proud of how he persevered throughout this season through illness and injury to even get to this point of representing EMU at the national championships. \u00a0The cold weather caused his injured Achilles to act up and keep him from being his best but there are no excuses. \u00a0We&#8217;ll learn from this experience, take some time to get healthy, and look towards having a strong track season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Sathre from St. Thomas (MN) led at every split and won the individual title with a time of 23:44.27.\u00a0 Lee Berube of SUNY Geneseo was second at 23:49.60.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional power North Central (IL) won the team title easily with a total of 110 points.\u00a0 Haverford was second with 172.<\/p>\n<p>Nafziger finishes with a handful of honors from his first competitive season at EMU as he was named an ODAC Runner of the Week, All-ODAC Second Team, and All-South\/Southeast Region First Team.\u00a0 This is the third straight year the Royals have had a runner at the NCAA D-III National Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just first season running at Eastern Mennonite, Dan Nafziger (Harrisonburg, VA\/Harrisonburg) earned a trip to Nationals.\u00a0 The cold weather in the middle of November in Wisconsin did him no <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2011\/nafziger-competes-at-ncaa-championships\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Nafziger Competes at NCAA Championships<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":9836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4516,5731,4513],"tags":[16705,13057,13845,13978,6153,11672],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-cross-country","category-student-life","tag-all-odac","tag-cross-country","tag-dan-nafziger","tag-jason-lewkowicz","tag-ncaa","tag-odac"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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