Today the FAMU Cross Country program will host the first Bobby Lang Cross Country Invitational on campus, beginning at 10 a.m.The event is named in honor of the legendary FAMU Track and Field coach, Bobby Lang, who led the program from 1966 to 1999, winning over 30 conference titles in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
FAMU head coach Darlene Moore announced Tuesday that the first-time event will be run entirely on the FAMU campus, with the start and finish on the Pete Griffin Track.
Men’s competition (8-kilometers/5-miles) will begin at 10 a.m., while the women’s competition (5-kilometer/3-mile) will start at 10:45 a.m.
The running course starts on the FAMU track, winds around the football stadium, goes past the new University Teaching Gym, down Wahnish Way and up Okaloosa Street past the University fitness center, through the center of the campus (Martin Luther King), past old FAMU High, down FAMU Way back to Wahnish Way and back to the Griffin Track for the finish.
Joining host FAMU in Saturday’s event will be Albany (Ga.) State University, Edward Waters (Fla.) College, Bethune-Cookman (Fla.) University and Morehouse (Ga.) College.
This is great!! Bobby Lang was a great coach. His health classes at FAMU were very interesting, to say the least. lol.
ReplyDeleteLets take this to the next level next year.
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