Cross Country Poised for Big 12 Battle in Lawrence

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Colorado Buffaloes return to the positioning of their last Big 12 Cross Country Championships to compete within the 2025 Allstate Big 12 Cross Country Championship, hosted by the University of Kansas at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, October 31.

The males’s 8K championship race is scheduled for 10 a.m., adopted by the ladies’s 6K at 11 a.m. The Rim Rock Farm course options rolling hills, wooded trails, and lengthy grass straights.

Colorado’s males enter the meet ranked fifth nationally following a runner-up end on the Nuttycombe Invitational, whereas the ladies are No. 16 after putting twelfth in Madison.

The Buffs will face a extremely aggressive area that includes the nation’s top-ranked groups. Four USTFCCCA nationally ranked males’s groups are set to compete: No. 1 Iowa State, No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 5 Colorado, and No. 8 BYU. On the ladies’s aspect, six ranked groups will line up: No. 1 BYU, No. 6 Iowa State, No. 7 West Virginia, No. 11 Oklahoma State, No. 16 Colorado, and No. 18 Utah.

Women: Holly Barker, Jessie Secor, Juliette Forstrom, Ella Hagen, Mia Larochelle, Louise Lounes, Abbey Nechanicky, Hannah Prosser, Pippa Roessler, Linda Weigang

Men: Dean Casey, Wilson Georges, Isaiah Givens, Lukas Haug, Jake Liebert, Kole Mathison, Tanner Newkirk, James Overberg, Grady Rauba, Charles Robertson, Dominic Serem

Colorado will area a powerful lineup led by sophomore switch Dominic Serem, who ranks fourth within the Big 12 with a time of twenty-two:45.2. Isaiah Givens, displaying regular enchancment from mid-distance, ranks ninth at 23:01.9. James Overberg sits thirteenth (23:06.8) and Dean Casey follows at fifteenth (23:12.6).

On the ladies’s aspect, Jessie Secor ranks sixth within the Big 12 with a time of 19:41.8, adopted carefully by Mia Larochelle (eleventh, 19:46.8) and Hannah Prosser (twelfth, 19:47.8).

Each workforce will run seven athletes, with the highest 5 finishers scoring. The workforce with the bottom mixed rating will likely be topped champion.

The final time Colorado raced at Rim Rock Farm, the Buffs swept each titles, capturing their eleventh consecutive males’s championship and eighth straight girls’s crown in 2006. The girls’s program has claimed 10 of the 11 Big 12 workforce championships in historical past at the moment, whereas the lads have gained each title since becoming a member of the convention. Former Buff Jennifer Barringer led the way in which that 12 months, ending second general.

How to Follow

The races will stream dwell on ESPN+, and dwell outcomes will likely be out there via PrimeTime Timing.

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Championship season continues because the Buffs will compete within the NCAA Mountain Regional Championship on November 14, earlier than heading to the NCAA Championships on November 22.