MSU Cross Country Prepares for the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational Friday

EAST LANSING, Mich. – After two weeks off, the Michigan State cross nation groups return to motion on the ultra-competitive Nutttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, hosted by the University of Wisconsin in Madison on Friday, Oct. 17.

The girls’s 6k “A” race will start at 12:50 p.m. ET, whereas the lads’s 8k “A” race is about to begin at 1:30 p.m. ET. The day begins with the ladies’s 6k “B” race at 10:30 a.m., adopted by the lads’s 8k “B” race at 11:10 a.m.

All races can be held on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course, which opened in 2009 and is situated adjoining to University Ridge Golf Course in Madison.

On the ladies’s facet, 19 of the 31 groups attending the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational are ranked and 6 are throughout the prime 10. The Spartans are ranked No. 24 within the USTFCCCA polls. On the lads’s facet, 16 of the 32 groups competing are at the moment ranked. The MSU males are at the moment ranked No. 16.

Last day trip on the Gans Creek Classic on Sept. 26, the Spartan males completed tenth within the 8k race with 334 factors. The Spartans had been led by Riley Hough, who completed eighth with a brand new personal-best time of twenty-two:50.8. It was additionally the highest time for an American. His earlier private greatest was 23:08.04 set on the Big Ten Championships in 2024. Moses Osterink crossed the road in 23:32.6 to complete 68th. 

At the Gans Creek Classic, the MSU girls additionally had a stable day ending thirteenth with 402 factors in a extremely aggressive subject that included 9 ranked groups. Florida took the ladies’s title with 102 factors. The Gators had finishers 7-8-9-10. For the second-straight meet, Rachel Forsyth led the best way for the Spartans. She completed twenty eighth with a time of 19.59.4. She had the third-best time of any Big Ten runners behind Oregon’s Juliet Cherubet and Dalia Frias.

Following the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, Michigan State chosen members of the workforce will compete on the Eastern Michigan Invite on Oct. 24.