Three nationally ranked teams are set to battle for the 2023 SEC Cross Country Championship team title on Friday morning with an 8,000m race at the Charwood Golf Club. No. 8 Arkansas is the top ranked squad followed by No. 13 Tennessee and No. 22 Alabama, the defending champion.
Lance Harter, the University of Arkansas women s cross country coach, first took notice of Isabel Van Camp when she won the high school division of the Chile Pepper Racing Festival on the UA s Agri Park course in 2018 as a senior at Keller (Texas) High School.
Arkansas opens the 2022 cross country season ranked No. 12 in the USTFCCCA national coaches’ preseason poll and will race Thursday morning at the Cowboy Preview hosted by Oklahoma State.