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NAU Wins The Men’s Cross Country National Championship Monday
The NAU Lumberjacks men’s cross country team won another national championship Monday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. NAU finished with 60 points, which is the lowest score in a national title race since 2005. Conner Mantz from BYU was the individual champion, however for NAU, freshman Nico Young finished fourth, senior Blase Ferro was sixth, sophomore Abdihamid Nur was seventh and senior Luis Grijalva was ninth. This is the fourth national championship for NAU in men’s cross country in five years. The Jacks finished 27 points better than Notre Dame and 82 points better than host Oklahoma State. Defending national champion BYU was seventh and Big Sky rival Southern Utah was ninth. The NAU women’s team finished 11th in the women’s national meet. NAU was in the top-five for most of the race, then tailed off toward the end. Junior Taryn O’Neill finished in sixth place for NAU. BYU won the team nati
2020 USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Cross Country All-America
NEW ORLEANS – All-America honors for the 2020 NCAA
Division I Cross Country season were announced on Tuesday by the U.S. Track
& Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Athletes from member institutions earned All-America
recognition by finishing among the top-40 athletes in their gender’s respective
races on Monday at the
2020 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Team titles went to
Northern Arizona’s men and
BYU’s
women. It was the Lumberjacks’ fourth crown in the past five years, while the
Cougars captured their fifth in program history.
NAU athletes snagged four All-America honors thanks to their
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In the men’s 10,000-meter race, BYU’s Conner Mantz became the first American man since 2008 to win the individual cross-country title when he crossed the line first in 29:26. No. 2 Northern Arizona won the team championship with 60 points, claiming the program’s fourth victory in five years. 2019 NCAA champions BYU finished seventh overall.
No. 9 Notre Dame had a breakthrough performance, putting all five scorers in the top 23 finishers for an 87-point total, which locked them up as the runners-up. Oklahoma State, with home course advantage, placed third with 142 points.
The championship, which is usually scheduled for the fall, was postponed as a safety precaution amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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