After our Aggie Women Cross Country team qualified for nationals last season and for the expected great season our teams are supposed to have, I thought cross country deserves its own thread I thought we'd make a thread so we can discuss the roster, meets, results from meets around the country, other sec teams, other teams in the region, as well as high school cross country!
Schedule
August 30: Cowboy Preview - @Oklahoma State
September 13: Texas A&M Invitational - HOME
September 27: Nuttycombe Invitational - @Wisconsin
October 18: Arturo Barrios - HOME
November 1: SEC Championship - HOME
November 15: NCAA South Central Regional - HOME
November 23: NCAA XC Championship- @Wisconsin
How Collegiate Cross Country Works
So college cross country (xc) is an NCAA fall sport that is distinct from track and field, BUT the scholarships awarded for runners who participate in cross country are within the allotted scholarships given to the track and field team. There is no such thing as a cross country scholarship. Track and cross country scholarships both belong to the scholarship count to an institution's track and field roster! In track and field women have 18 scholarships while the men only have 12.6! So cross country is included within those numbers! Some schools will use a large portion of those scholarships on distance runners while others won't use any at all! There is no data to show how A&M utilizes their scholarships but I know for a fact we do really well with less scholarship money than other schools!
Cross country at this level is a team sport. 5 members make up a scoring team, although 7 can run at the post season meets, while typically more run in the practice meets! So scoring wise, they collect the places from the top 5 runners from each team and add up their places. The team with the lowest score wins! A 15 being a perfect score!
The distance ran varies throughout the season, but ends with a 6k for the women and a 10k for the men at the regional and national meet! There is a regular season which usually includes 3-5 meets, usually starting off with a shorter distance and working up! For us, we will have 4 regular season meets, then conference!
Then after these races, the next one is the regional meet (or the national qualifier). The regional qualifier is one of 9 regional meets across the country! We are located in the south central region with school like Arkansas, tu, LSU, and other schools from these states! At the regional meet, the top 2 teams advance to nationals! Arkansas will always use a lot of scholarships to load up their distance team so overtaking them is difficult, but last year our women finished second and advanced to nationals!
Head Coach: Wendel McRaven
Assistant Coach: Julia Abell
Schedule Link: https://12thman.com/sports/mens-cross-country/schedule
Roster Link: https://12thman.com/sports/mens-cross-country/roster
Schedule
August 30: Cowboy Preview - @Oklahoma State
September 13: Texas A&M Invitational - HOME
September 27: Nuttycombe Invitational - @Wisconsin
October 18: Arturo Barrios - HOME
November 1: SEC Championship - HOME
November 15: NCAA South Central Regional - HOME
November 23: NCAA XC Championship- @Wisconsin
How Collegiate Cross Country Works
So college cross country (xc) is an NCAA fall sport that is distinct from track and field, BUT the scholarships awarded for runners who participate in cross country are within the allotted scholarships given to the track and field team. There is no such thing as a cross country scholarship. Track and cross country scholarships both belong to the scholarship count to an institution's track and field roster! In track and field women have 18 scholarships while the men only have 12.6! So cross country is included within those numbers! Some schools will use a large portion of those scholarships on distance runners while others won't use any at all! There is no data to show how A&M utilizes their scholarships but I know for a fact we do really well with less scholarship money than other schools!
Cross country at this level is a team sport. 5 members make up a scoring team, although 7 can run at the post season meets, while typically more run in the practice meets! So scoring wise, they collect the places from the top 5 runners from each team and add up their places. The team with the lowest score wins! A 15 being a perfect score!
The distance ran varies throughout the season, but ends with a 6k for the women and a 10k for the men at the regional and national meet! There is a regular season which usually includes 3-5 meets, usually starting off with a shorter distance and working up! For us, we will have 4 regular season meets, then conference!
Then after these races, the next one is the regional meet (or the national qualifier). The regional qualifier is one of 9 regional meets across the country! We are located in the south central region with school like Arkansas, tu, LSU, and other schools from these states! At the regional meet, the top 2 teams advance to nationals! Arkansas will always use a lot of scholarships to load up their distance team so overtaking them is difficult, but last year our women finished second and advanced to nationals!
Head Coach: Wendel McRaven
Assistant Coach: Julia Abell
Schedule Link: https://12thman.com/sports/mens-cross-country/schedule
Roster Link: https://12thman.com/sports/mens-cross-country/roster