Spartan Cross Nation Travels to Gans Creek Classic

EAST LANSING, MICH. – Michigan State cross nation returns to motion on the Gans Creek Classic on Friday, Sept. 26.

The males’s 8k race will start at 9:15 a.m. ET with the ladies’s 6k race beginning at 10 a.m. ET. The Gans Creek course will likely be a preview of the NCAA Championship on Saturday, Nov. 22. There are 9 ranked groups among the many area on the ladies’s facet, together with No. 2 Oregon and No. 5 Stanford. Fourteen of the highest 25 groups will likely be represented on the lads’s facet, together with No. 1 Iowa State and No. 4 BYU.

The Spartans could have 12 girls operating within the 6k Gold Race led by All-Americans Rachel Forsyth and Kate Stewart-Barnett. The girls are at the moment ranked No. 16 within the newest USTFCCCA Poll and No. 2 within the within the Great Lakes Region. 

The Michigan State males may even have 12 operating within the 8k Gold Race. Riley Hough, who received the Spartan Invite on Sept. 12, will lead the MSU squad. MSU is ranked No. 27 in the newest ballot and No. 4 within the Great Lakes Region. Moses Osterink and Parker Lambers may even each be making an attempt to interrupt by way of for MSU.

 

Last day trip, the MSU males received the Spartan Invite 8k race for the second-straight season with 28 factors. The Spartan girls completed second within the 6k race with 89 factors, behind Northwestern with 18 factors.

Individually, Hough received the lads’s race with a time of 23:41.1, simply shy of his personal-best time of 23:04.4 set on the Big Ten Championships final season. Jack Pennewell, Moses Osterink and Thomas Westphal completed 5-6-7, respectively. 

All-American Rachel Forsyth helped information the Spartans to a second-place outcome, ending seventh with a time of 20:31.1. Taylor Pangburn completed thirteenth with a time of 20:52.2.

Following the Gans Creek Classic, Michigan State will journey to Madison, Wisconsin for the Nuttycombe Invitational on Oct. 17.