November
20, 2006 COLORADO CAPTURES MEN'S NCAA CROSS COUNTRY NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Colorado men’s cross country team has won the 2006 NCAA Cross Country National Championship at the LaVerne Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind. For the third consecutive season, and the fourth time in the last five years, Indiana State University hosted the event. Colorado's top runner en route to their second championship in the past three seasons was Brent Vaughn, who finished eighth with a time of 31:13. The Buffalos finished with a team score of 94 to win the event. Following Colorado in the race was Wisconsin and tallied 142 points to claim second. Iona was third with a score of 172, while Stanford scored 262 to finish third and Stanford was fifth at 195. Individually, the race was dominated by BYU's Josh Rohatinsky, who finished in a time of 30:44.9, winning by nearly eight seconds over second place finisher, Neftalem Araia of Stanford. At the race’s halfway point, there was an eight-way tie for first with a time of 15:19. Araia finished with a time of 30:52.6, while Southern Utah's Jess Baumgartner was third at 30:53.2. Rounding out the top five were, Northern Arizona's Lopez Lomong in fourth at 30:59.8, while Providence's Martin Fagan was fifth with a time of 31:01.0. The 2006 event will be known for its warmer than normal temperatures as the mercury soared near 50 degrees at race time. But times proved to be slower because over five inches of rain fell on the course in the week leading up to the event.
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