The University of Hawai'i women's cross country team will compete in a pair of meets Saturday at the UC Riverside Invitational and Brigham Young-Hawai'i Invitational.
 
UH will send a contingent of eight runners to the UCR Invitational, its first mainland competition of the season. The race will be held at the Agricultural Operations Course located adjacent to the UCR campus on the 420-acre Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station.
 
The women's 6K race begins at 7:30 a.m. PT and will be a preview of the Big West Championships, which will be held in late October.
 
Freshman Kelsie Kobayashi, UH's top runner at last week's Big Wave Invitational, will headline the Rainbow Wahine squad along with freshman Amity Gregg, who was the team's top finisher at the season-opening Hawai'i Pacific Invitational. Also competing for UH are Megan Dart, Heather Delgado, Ashlee Jimenez, Amanda Lee, Louise Mulvey, and Tiare' Nakashima.
 
The Rainbow Wahine last competed in the UC Riverside Invitational in 2005, where they finished 13^th as four runners ran lifetime bests including three sub-20 minute times.
 
UH's “B” team will compete in the BYUH Invitational along with the state's Division II teams Hawai'i Pacific, Brigham Young-Hawai'i, Chaminade, and UH-Hilo. The 5K race begins at 9:00 a.m. on the BYUH campus.
 
Meet #3
What: UC Riverside Invitational
Date: Saturday, Sept. 15
Time: 7:30 a.m. PT
Where: Agricultural Operations Course; Riverside, Calif.
 
UH Participants: Megan Dart, Heather Delgado, Amity Gregg, Ashlee Jimenez, Kelsie Kobayashi, Amanda Lee, Louise Mulvey, Tiare' Nakashima
 
Meet #4 (“B” Squad)
What: BYU-Hawai'i Invitational
Date: Saturday, Sept. 15
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Where: La'ie, O'ahu
 
UH Participants: Erin Carvalho, Bronte Kaneakua, Melody Papalii, Rebekah Phillips, Alissa Noll, Sara Silverman, Kevyn Murphy (unattached)