Ducks Host Bill Dellinger Invitational

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon cross nation workforce hosts the 19^th Bill Dellinger Invitational Friday morning on the Pine Ridge Golf Club in Springfield, Ore. The meet begins with the lads’s 8K at 11:15 a.m. adopted by the ladies’s 6K at 12 p.m.

The Dellinger Invitational shall be streamed dwell by RunnerSpace.

Spectator parking with a free shuttle service is positioned on the Willamette Leadership Academy. Shuttles will run repeatedly beginning at 8:45 a.m. Fans shall be dropped off and picked up on the essential clubhouse. Click HERE for full particulars concerning the park-and-ride shuttle service.

The Women of Oregon enter the race because the fourth-ranked workforce within the nation whereas the UO males verify in at No. 14 within the newest USTFCCCA nationwide ballot. The males’s discipline can even characteristic No. 23 Air Force.

The Full Field
Air Force
California
Central Washington
Oregon
Oregon State (girls)
Saint Mary’s (males)
San Diego State (girls)
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
UCLA
Weber State

The Dellinger Invitational shall be Oregon’s first meet since Sept. 26, the Cowboy Jamboree for the lads and the Gans Creeks Classic for the ladies. At the latter, junior Juliet Cherubet ran to a fifth-place end in her Oregon cross nation debut and went on to be named Big Ten Athlete of the Week. She navigated the 6K course—website of the NCAA Championships—in 19:20.3.

Both groups completed sixth within the respective race standings.

Cherubet, Diana Cherotich and Anika Thompson are scheduled to be among the many girls’s entries Friday. It could be the UO cross debut for Cherotich who competed for the Ducks this previous outside season and was the Big Ten champion at 10,000 meters. Thompson was an All-American final season, ending 32^nd on the NCAA Championships in Madison, Wis.

On the lads’s aspect, Aiden Smith, Simeon Birnbaum and Benjamin Balazs are amongst these set to make their season debuts. All three had been a part of the Ducks’ lineup finally 12 months’s NCAA meet the place Smith ran to All-America honors with a 29^th-place end.

The Oregon males have received the Dellinger workforce race 11 occasions to associate with seven particular person titles each most lately in 2022. The UO girls have 10 Dellinger workforce titles—final in 2022—and eight particular person champions; Maddy Elmore received final season.

Friday can even be the ultimate tune-up competitors earlier than the beginning of the postseason. The 2025 Big Ten Cross Country Championships are set for Friday, Oct. 31, hosted by Michigan State.

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