BOZEMAN, Mont. – The Montana State cross nation groups are set for his or her ultimate tune-up forward of the Big Sky Championships, touring to Columbia, Mo., for the Pre-National Invitational at Gans Creek Cross Country Course.
The Bobcats will compete in Columbia for the second-straight meet as they take a look at the NCAA Championship course for the second time this season. The Pre-National Invitational, which was initially scheduled for Saturday morning, was pushed ahead by someday to Friday as a result of climate. The Bobcat girls will open the day within the 6k at 9 a.m. MT adopted by the boys’s 8k at 9:45 a.m.
The Pre-National Invitational will air stay on
SEC Network+ with stay outcomes accessible on
PrimeTime Timing.
“After two months of practice and limited racing, we are right in the thick of the racing and coming championship season,” Dale Kennedy Director of Track & Field and Cross Country
Lyle Weese stated. “The Pre-NCAA will be a great measuring stick to get an even clearer idea of where we are at heading into the conference championships in Bozeman in two weeks. The field will once again be an elite field with some similarities to the Gans Creek Classic three weeks ago. Both the men and women seem to have taken big steps forward, and I am excited to see what that looks like against the strong field of competing teams. It is a unique experience competing on the same cross country course twice in one season. We will take what we learned from the first time on the course three weeks ago in order to maximize our team and individual performances.”
Montana State is certainly one of 39 scoring groups within the girls’s discipline whereas 35 groups will compete on the boys’s facet. The Bobcats are amongst one other stacked discipline in Columbia that options seven nationally-ranked girls’s groups and 5 males’s groups ranked within the prime 30 nationally. On the ladies’s facet, No. 1 BYU, No. 3 Florida, No. 8 Oklahoma State, No. 19 Villanova, No. 21 Missouri, No. 23 Boston College, and No. 30 Tennessee can be in attendance whereas No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 19 Missouri, No. 22 Arkansas, No. 24 Ole Miss, and No. 30 Loyola Chicago will take the course for the boys’s race. Montana State may even face two of its convention rivals on the meet, with Idaho State and Northern Colorado competing towards the Bobcats in each races.
Sixteen Bobcats are anticipated to compete in Columbia on Friday – eight in every race. The girls’s race will characteristic
Samantha Geraets,
Annie Kaul,
Eva Koos,
Niamh Motley,
Hannah Perrin,
Claire Rutherford,
Madi Siana, and
Hailey Watkins whereas
Eli Boppart,
Harvey Cramb,
Sam Ells,
Ryan Harrington,
Quinn Newman, AJ Ringert,
Owen Smith, and
Blaise Snow will compete within the males’s race.
The Bobcats are heading into their third and ultimate meet of the common season following the MSU Bobcat Twilight in Bozeman and the Gans Creek Classic in Columbia, a meet wherein Montana State confronted a slew of nationally-ranked competitors.
Owen Smith led the Bobcats on the boys’s facet with a time of 23:36.8 to complete 79
th within the 8k gold race whereas
Madi Siana clocked a 6k time of 21:14.7 to complete 142
nd within the girls’s gold race. Both groups positioned 31
st general whereas testing the course towards a number of the nation’s prime groups.
Montana State heads into Friday’s Pre-National Invitational ranked No. 11 within the Mountain Region on the boys’s facet and No. 12 on the ladies’s facet.
The Bobcats will cap off the common season in Columbia on Friday earlier than returning to Bozeman for the Big Sky Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Nov. 1, at Bridger Creek Cross Country Course.
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