Cavaliers Shine in Pre-Nationwide Race at Gans Creek Classic

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The No. 6 and No. 18 ranked Virginia males’s and girls’s cross nation applications represented properly on the Gans Creek Classic on Friday (Sept. 26) as the boys completed runner-up led by Gary Martin’s high 10 end within the males’s 8k whereas the ladies completed fourth within the 6k race highlighted by six private finest occasions on the Gans Creek Cross Country Course.

In the boys’s 8k, Gary Martin opened his season with a ninth-place end on the course that may finally host the NCAA Cross Country Championships on the finish of the season. Martin is the reigning ACC Cross Country Champion and 2024 Cross Country All-American. Martin crossed the road in 22:51.1 to steer a quartet of Cavaliers to complete within the high 30. Not far behind Martin was Justin Wachtel with a brand new private finest of twenty-two:54.5 in 12^th place. Rounding out the Cavalier entrance pack was Will Anthony (23:05.2) and Nate Mountain (23:06.1) in 25^th and 29^th place respectively. Brett Gardner (23:07.8), Will Daley (32:31.0) and Nicholas Bendtsen (23:42.0) additionally ran sturdy races for the Cavaliers.

The Virginia males completed runner-up with a complete of 107 factors, simply behind the No. 1 ranked Iowa State with 47 factors. The Cavaliers had been the highest ACC crew to complete as No. 12 Syracuse (229) took sixth, No. 9 Wake Forest completed ninth (312), No. 7 Stanford (456) was fifteenth and Duke completed twenty seventh general. Virginia additionally topped No. 4 BYU because the Cougars completed in fifth place with 199 factors. 

On the ladies’s facet, Tatum David led the way in which for the Cavaliers with a 15^th place end clocking a brand new private better of 19:38.9 for 6k. Also within the high 25 finishers was Gillian Bushee with a brand new 6k private better of 19:55.1. A quartet of Cavaliers together with Mary Ellen Eudaly, Ella Woehlcke, Bushee and David completed inside the high 50 of 237 opponents. Eudaly crossed the road in 20:17.3 for 46^th place whereas Woehlcke recorded a brand new private better of 20:19.5 to complete in fiftieth place. The trio of underclassman in Tatum Olesen (20:36.0, PB), Stella Kermes (20:40.4, PB) and Katie Payne (20:49.3, PB) put collectively sturdy races in Missouri.

The Virginia ladies completed fourth within the crew standings with a complete of 210 factors, simply behind No. 12 Florida (102), No. 8 Northern Arizona (126) and Colorado (166). The Cavaliers had been the highest ACC crew to complete as Wake Forest (313) completed tenth; Duke (320) took eleventh and Syracuse (437) completed fifteenth general. The crew additionally completed forward of No. 2 Oregon in sixth place with 225 factors and No. 16 Michigan State in thirteenth place with 402 factors.

From Director of Cross Country & Track & Field Vin Lananna:
“The men and women capitalized on the opportunity to see a great course at Missouri and to compete with an elite field of national and international athletes. We will go back to work as we prepare for our next outing at home in three weeks.”

Gans Creek Classic
Gans Creek Cross Country Course
Columbia, Mo.

Women’s Gold Invitational Team Results (6k)

1. Florida — 102

2. Northern Arizona — 126

3. Colorado — 166

4. Virginia — 210

5. Utah — 223

6. Oregon — 224

7. Iowa State — 226

8. Missouri — 253

9. Washington State — 259

10. Wake Forest — 312

11. Duke — 318

12. Tennessee — 356

13. Michigan State — 398

14. Tulane — 400

15. Syracuse — 434

16. Nebraska — 445

17. Princeton — 447

18. Oregon State — 455

19. Alabama — 476

20. Ole Miss — 507

21. Furman — 517

22. Lipscomb — 526

23. Michigan — 530

24. Vanderbilt — 531

25. Air Force — 587

26. Utah Valley — 646

27. UCLA — 674

28. Ohio State — 702

29. Oklahoma — 717

30. Weber State — 892

31. Montana State — 923

Men’s Gold Invitational Team Results (8k)

1. Iowa State — 47

2. Virginia — 107

3. Colorado — 126

4. Alabama — 193

5. BYU — 199

6. Syracuse — 229

7. Butler — 237

8. Northern Arizona — 239

9. Wake Forest — 312

10. Michigan State — 336

11. Tulane — 368

12. Missouri — 404

13. Princeton — 415

14. Washington — 456

15. Stanford — 456

16. Air Force — 470

17. Eastern Kentucky — 487

18. Michigan — 493

19. Lipscomb — 514

20. Furman — 562

21. Ole Miss — 572

22. Gonzaga — 602

23. Florida — 614

24. Utah Valley — 649

25. Iona — 658

26. Portland — 668

27. Duke — 691

28. Navy — 698

29. Texas Tech — 719

30. Weber State — 728

31. Montana State — 756

32. Tennessee — 540

 

Up Next

The Virginia males’s and girls’s cross nation groups return dwelling to host the 2025 Panorama Farms Invitational on Friday, Oct. 17 at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Va.