Cavaliers Set to Compete at Gans Creek Classic

COLUMBIA, Mo.— The Virginia No. 6 males’s and No. 18 ladies’s cross nation packages journey to Columbia, Mo. to compete on the Gans Creek Classic on the Gans Creek Cross Country Course hosted by the University of Missouri on Friday, Sept. 26.

How to Follow
The races will likely be streamed on SEC Network+ and dwell outcomes can be found utilizing the next link. Results may also be adopted by means of the workforce’s official Twitter account (@UVAtfcc).

Schedule of Events (*Times are central)
8:15 a.m. | Men’s Black Invitational 8k Race
9:00 a.m. | Women’s Gold Invitational 6K Race
9:45 a.m. | Men’s Gold Invitational 8k Race
10:30 a.m. | Women’s Black Invitational 6k Race
11:00 a.m. | Invitational Awards
11:15 a.m. | Men’s Open 8k Race
12:00 p.m. | Women’s Open 6k Race

Rankings
The Virginia males enter the meet ranked No. 6 within the USTFCCCA Week 1 National ballot whereas the ladies’s workforce moved as much as No. 18.  The Cavalier males rank first within the Southeast Region whereas the ladies rank second within the regional ballot.

Noting the Cavaliers…

• In their season opener, Nick Bendtsen and Stella Kermes received the boys’s 6k and ladies’s 4k races. This marks the third consecutive yr by which the Cavaliers have swept the Spider Alumni Open
• Both Bendtsen and Kermes have been named ACC Performer of the Week for his or her performances in Richmond, Va. (9/9)
• Gillian Bushee (16:39.9) and Justin Wachtel (23:52.6) received on their dwelling course on the 2025 Virginia Invitational as Bushee clocked the nineteenth quickest time for the Panorama Farms 5k course.
• Virginia returns greater than half of its roster together with 17 males and 12 ladies from the 2024 season
• Key returns embrace All-American Gary Martin. Martin received the ACC Cross Country Championship in document time (22:17.6, 8k) and completed thirteenth on the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Championships (29:02.3, 10k).
  
• Martin was named the 2024 ACC Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year and 2024 ACC Cross Country Performer of the Year.
• The Virginia ladies return three of the seven athletes who competed on the NCAA Championships and completed throughout the top-15 main the workforce to a 14th place end general.
• On the boys’s aspect, Virginia’s prime finishers on the NCAA Championships in Will Anthony, Justin Wachtel, Nate Mountain and Martin will likely be on the course this fall. Five of the seven members return for the Cavaliers.
• In the USTFCCCA preseason and Week 1 ballot, the boys checked in at No. 1 within the Southeastern Regional ballot and No. 6 within the National ballot.
• In the USTFCCCA preseason ballot, the ladies checked in at No. 3 within the Southeastern Regional ballot earlier than shifting as much as No. 2 within the Week 1 ballot. In the preseason National ballot, the checked in at No.20 earlier than shifting as much as No. 18 within the Week 1 ballot.