COLUMBIA The Lincoln women’s cross country team opened its season Friday with an 11th-place finish at Columbia College’s Larry Young Invitational at Gans Creek Course.
Lincoln finished with 314 points in the women’s team standings. Truman State won the team title with 41 points.
The Lincoln women finished second out of 10 teams and the men took third in the final team standings during the Redbird Challenge, hosted Friday and Saturday by Illinois State. The Lincoln women finished with 109 points and five event wins, while the men tallied 77 points and won four events.
The Lincoln Blue Tigers qualified 14 athletes for the NCAA Division II indoor track and field national championships, which will be held March 11-12 at Pittsburg State. The national qualifiers were announced Tuesday night.