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Discuss “XC takes UAA conference championship”

When senior Nick End fell halfway through Saturday afternoon?s UAA conference championship race at Schenley Park, it appeared as though any hope the Tartans? cross-country team had of upsetting a higher-ranked field and bringing the school its first conference championship since 1989, went down along with him.

But rather than give up on the race, End jumped right up, dusted himself off and ran his best time of the season, leading the unranked Tartans to an unexpected UAA title over such nationally ranked foes as NYU and Washington University.

?Nick took a really bad fall there,? said senior All-American Dana Irrer. ?For him to get up so quickly and still finish so well I think really motivated the guys behind him on our team to just go all...

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