Dominant Efficiency by Cavaliers on the Virginia Invitational as Bushee and Wachtel File Wins

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 6 and No. 20 ranked Virginia males’s and ladies’s cross nation applications confirmed off on the 2025 Virginia Invitational on Friday (Sept. 12) as veteran runners Justin Wachtel and Gillian Bushee received the boys’s 8k and ladies’s 5k races at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Va.

In the boys’s 8k, graduate college students Justin Wachtel and Brett Gardner went 1-2 to paved the way for the boys clocking 23:52.6 and 23:52.8. Virginia occupied six of the highest 10 spots as Billy Atkinson (24:24.6), Richard Moreno (24:25.2), Adam Balewicz (24:28.9) and Daniel O’Brien (24:37.6) completed fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth within the order. With their dominant efficiency, the Cavalier males completed atop the workforce standings with a complete of 18 factors, effectively forward of second and third place ending groups in Johns Hopkins (59 factors) and App State (88 factors).

On the ladies’s aspect, junior Gillian Bushee received the ladies’s 5k race clocking a brand new private finest time of 16:39.9. Bushee’s time is the nineteenth quickest for the 5k course at Panorama Farms. At this meet a yr in the past, Bushee completed third in 16:42.0. The Cavaliers accounted for eight of the highest 10 finishers as Tatum David (16:54.6), Mary Ellen Eudaly (16:58.3), Ella Woehlcke (17:00.7, PB), and Cate DeSousa (17:14.8, PB) completed third by means of sixth whereas Tatum Olesen (17:23.3, PB), Katie Payne (17:25.2) and Kerrigan Chaney (17:28.4) rounded out locations eight by means of 10.

The Virginia ladies completed forward within the workforce standings with a complete of 19 factors, effectively forward of second and third place ending groups in William & Mary (65 factors) and Johns Hopkins (77 factors).

Virginia Invitational
Panorama Farms
Charlottesville, Va.

Women’s Team Results (5k)

1. Virginia — 19
2. William & Mary — 65

3. Johns Hopkins — 77

4. Richmond — 105

5. George Washington — 116

6. App State — 141

7. Western Carolina — 240

8. Howard — 246

9. Norfolk State — 274

10. Mary Washington — 292

Men’s Team Results (8k)

1. Virginia — 18

2. Johns Hopkins — 59

3. App State — 88

4. William & Mary — 103

5. George Washington — 107

6. Norfolk State — 162

7. Western Carolina — 205

8. Mary Washington — 250

9. Howard — 265

Up Next

The Virginia males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups will journey to Columbia, Mo. to compete on the Gans Creek Classic hosted by the University of Missouri on Friday, Sept. 26. The males’s 8k black invitational is about for 8:15 a.m. with the gold invitational at 9:45 a.m. and open part at 11:15 a.m. The ladies’s races are scheduled to start with the ladies’s 6k gold invitational at 9 a.m. simply earlier than the black invitational at 10:30 a.m. and open race at 12 p.m. (Times are Central) Gans Creek Cross Country course would be the last web site of competitors for the NCAA Cross Country Championships later within the season on Saturday, Nov. 22.