Men's Cross Country

Three Teams, Five Individuals Ready for NCAA Cross Country Championships

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Three Ivy League cross country teams and five individuals are ready to put it all on the line as they ready for the challenge of the NCAA Championships on Saturday, November 20th.
 
Florida State University will play host and will utilize Apalachee Regional Park as the championship host. Coverage of the event will start at 10 a.m. ET on ESPNU.

All three teams will go into the race with national rankings tied to their names:
  • No. 24 Harvard Women
  • No. 25 Harvard Men
  • No. 16 Princeton Men
 
SCHEDULE
Women’s 6k Race- 10:20 a.m.
Men’s 10k Race- 11:10 a.m.
Live results can be found here.
 
WOMEN’S PREVIEW
Harvard is the lone women’s team to snatch an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship after finishing in first place at the Northeast Regional last Friday. This is the second consecutive National Championship that the Crimson have competed in. The last time we saw Harvard in this setting, they finished 31st overall.
 
Three Ivies will be running as individuals due to their automatic qualifying times at regionals. Yale’s Kayley Delay, the back-to-back Ivy League Cross Country Champion, will compete at her high school championship course in her last collegiate race. Two freshmen will join the veteran runner, Columbia’s Phoebe Anderson and Princeton’s Fiona Max, to make their NCAA Championship debut.
 
MEN’S PREVIEW
Harvard and Princeton both clinched automatic bids to the NCAA Championship after finishing first or second in their respective regionals last Friday— The Crimson finished second, while the Tigers snatched first. This will be the Tigers third-straight appearance in the NCAA Championship Race.
 
Two individuals will also be running, Cornell’s Perry MacKinnon and Penn’s Noah Carey— both earned an automatic bid.