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Olnick Duverge
Posted: Oct 27, 2017

#TCCXC ready for Region 8 Championships

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (October 27, 2017) – Tallahassee Community College's cross country season will conclude on Saturday with the running of the women's NJCAA Region 8/FCSAA State Championships at Apalachee Regional Park. 

Start time for the 5,000-meter race is 8 a.m. 

Thirty-eight runners are slated for the event, including five in the Eagles' blue and gold – sophomores Meagan Giddens and Olnick Duverge and freshmen Rachel Williams, Alexis McElroy and Ashley Maxwell. 

Giddens has been the team's top runner in each of the Eagles' five events and boasts the third-best 5K time in Region 8. She ran a 20:44 at the University of Florida's Mountain Dew Invitational in September. 

Saturday will mark the third time Tallahassee has run the ARP this fall, and Giddens' previous best on the course was a 20:46 at the FSU Invitational earlier this month. The top five runners in Saturday's race will comprise the All-NJCAA Region 8/FCSAA All-State team. 

All five Tallahassee runners have consistently posted better times since the season-opening race at Phipps Park in August. The trend will need to continue on Saturday if the Eagles want to knock off defending state champion Pasco-Hernando State College. 

The Bobcats enter the championship race as the No. 1 team in the state, based on this fall's top times. South Florida State College is No. 2 followed by Tallahassee, Florida State College at Jacksonville and Chipola College. 

Duverge's best time of the season came at the FSU Invitational when she ran a 23:05.8. 

Williams has shaved more than six minutes from her first run of the fall, having finished the Chipola Invitational in 24:32.60. 

Like Williams, McElroy and Maxwell are coming off season-best performances when they toe the start line on Saturday. 

McElroy ran a 23:54.16 at the Chipola Invitational while Maxwell finished the event in 25:48.54. 

The Eagle men will also run for the final time on Saturday as participants in Sustainable Tallahassee's Trash Dash 5K, scheduled to follow the women's championship event with a 9 a.m. start.