Ranked Buffs Journey to Nuttycombe Invite

MADISON, Wis. – The University of Colorado ranked cross nation packages are set to compete on the Wisconsin Nuttycombe Invitational offered by Under Armour on Friday, October 17, hosted by the University of Wisconsin on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course.

The meet will function an 8 kilometer males’s race and a 6 kilometer girls’s race, each loaded with nationwide caliber competitors.

The males’s subject will embrace 32 groups, 18 of that are nationally ranked, together with three from the Big 12. Programs scheduled to compete embrace No. 12 Butler, No. 6 BYU (Big 12), No. 15 CBU, No. 5 Colorado (Big 12), Duke, No. 26 Eastern Kentucky, Furman, No. 24 Georgetown, Gonzaga, No. 28 Harvard, Indiana, Iona, No. 1 Iowa State (Big 12), Lipscomb, Louisville, Michigan (receiving votes), No. 16 Michigan State, No. 3 New Mexico, North Carolina (receiving votes), North Carolina State, No. 13 Northern Arizona, No. 9 Notre Dame, Portland, No. 18 Stanford, No. 11 Syracuse, No. 17 Tulane, No. 27 Tulsa, Utah State (receiving votes), Villanova, Washington (receiving votes), No. 21 Washington State, and No. 7 Wisconsin.

Colorado’s males will journey with a powerful lineup led by Dominic Serem, who owns a private greatest of twenty-two:43.9 from the Princeton Fall Classic and a season greatest of twenty-two:45.2 from the Gans Creek Classic. He shall be joined by Dean Casey (22:52.9 private greatest, 2024 Big 12 Championships; 23:12.6 season greatest), Wilson Georges (23:24.9 private greatest, 2024 Big 12 Championships; 23:25.9 season greatest), Isaiah Givens (23:01.9 private and season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Lukas Haug (23:18.0 private and season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Jake Liebert (23:20.2 private greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Kole Mathison (23:43.3 private greatest, 2024 Wisconsin Pre Nats), Tanner Newkirk (23:49.7 private greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), James Overberg (23:06.8 private greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Grady Rauba (23:29.0 private greatest, 2024 Big 12 Championships), and Charles Robertson (24:24.8 private greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025).

The girls’s subject will function 31 packages, 16 of that are nationally ranked, together with Colorado and Iowa State from the Big 12. The aggressive subject will embrace CBU, No. 10 Colorado (Big 12), Duke, Furman, No. 22 Georgetown, No. 20 Gonzaga, Harvard, Indiana, No. 16 Iowa State (Big 12), Lipscomb, Louisville, Michigan, No. 24 Michigan State, Minnesota, No. 3 New Mexico, North Carolina, No. 2 North Carolina State, No. 6 Northern Arizona, No. 18 Northwestern, No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 14 Penn State, No. 28 Providence, No. 11 Stanford, Syracuse, Toledo, No. 25 Tulane, No. 14 Utah, No. 17 Washington, and No. 27 Washington State.

Colorado’s girls will journey a gifted roster that includes Holly Barker (20:35.2 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Georgia Bell (21:30.8 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Natalie Cook (19:46.3 private greatest, NCAA Division I Championships 2022), Juliette Forstrom (20:46.9 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Ella Hagen (21:00.5 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Mia Larochelle (19:46.8 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Abbey Nechanicky (19:42.4 private greatest, Arturo Barrios Invitational; 20:05.8 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), Pippa Roessler (first colleigate race), Jessie Secor (18:57.7 private greatest, NCAA South Region Championships; 19:41.8 season greatest, Gans Creek Classic 2025), and Linda Weigang (20:31.4 private greatest, RMAC Championships 2024).

The Buffs proceed to climb within the nationwide polls. The girls’s squad made a significant leap from 24 to 12 after a 3rd place end on the Gans Creek Classic and entered this week ranked tenth by the USTFCCCA Coaches Poll. The males’s crew remained regular at fifth within the newest rankings.

Last day out, the Colorado males’s and ladies’s packages every positioned third in a nationally aggressive subject on the Gans Creek Classic. The girls, then ranked twenty sixth, scored 166 factors behind twelfth ranked Florida and eighth ranked Northern Arizona. Jessie Secor led the Buffs with a seventeenth place end in 19:41.8 after steadily climbing by means of the pack. On the boys’s aspect, the thirteenth ranked Buffs additionally completed third with 126 factors behind prime ranked Iowa State and sixth ranked Virginia. Sophomore switch Dominic Serem paced Colorado with a fifth place end in 22:45.2, sustaining a prime six place all through the race.

The Nuttycombe Invitational serves as the ultimate tune up earlier than the postseason. With the highest three Big 12 packages within the subject, Friday’s race may preview the Big 12 Championship podium. Colorado’s girls will look to hold momentum into the convention meet as their lineup continues to spherical into type. The Big 12 Championships are set for October 31, adopted by the NCAA Mountain Regionals on November 14 and the NCAA Championships two weeks later.

Next up for the Buffaloes would be the Big 12 Championships on October 31 at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas. The Big 12 Championship returns to Rim Rock Farm on October 31, marking the primary time the convention meet has been held on the course since 2020. Colorado returns to the location of its historic 2006 convention sweep, when each the boys’s and ladies’s groups captured Big 12 titles.