Story on Pac-12 All-Century team
November 04, 2015 | Women's Cross Country
Corvallis, Ore. – Former Oregon State national champion Dale Story (second from left) was the only Beaver selected to the Pacific-12 Conference's All-Century Cross Country team, which was released on Monday night.
Running barefoot, Story captured the 1961 individual championship on a 30-degree day in Lansing, Mich., and led the Beavers to the first NCAA team title in school history.
Story finished the four-mile course in 19:46 and won comfortably by about 40 yards. He was followed by teammates Rich Cuddihy (12), Bill Boyd 16th (16), Cliff Thompson (25) and Jerry Brady (51).
OSU sent only five runners to the championships. Brady ran the final two miles with a pulled leg muscle; had he dropped out, the Beavers would not have won the national championship.
Story was inducted into the OSU Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
Steve Prefontaine of Oregon and Amy Skieresz of Arizona earned Pac-12 Men's and Women's Cross Country Runner of the Century honors, respectively. Current Colorado coach Mark Wetmore was named the Pac-12 Cross Country Coach of the Century.
A total of 12 men and 12 women were selected from a field of 62 nominees chosen by each Pac-12 institution. Notable voters included Pac-12 Networks analysts Thomas Feuer and Dwight Stones; Curtis Anderson, the former track & field/cross country beat writer for The Eugene Register Guard, and Northwest Runner writer Paul Merca.
For more information on the Oregon State cross country team, follow the team by Facebook at Facebook.com/OSUTrackCrossCountry or on Twitter at twitter.com/@beavers_track.
