MSU Cross Country Hosts Big Ten Championships Friday

Big Ten Cross Country Championships

Date: Friday, Oct. 31
Time: Men’s 8k Race – 10:35 p.m.
Women’s 6k Race – 11:35 a.m.
Location:  Forest Akers East Golf Course (East Lansing, Mich.)

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State’s cross nation groups will host the Big Ten Cross Country Championships on Friday at Forest Akers East Golf Course in East Lansing, marking the primary time since 2012 that MSU is internet hosting the convention meet.

The males’s 8k race will start at 10:35 a.m., whereas the ladies’s 6k race will begin at 11:35 a.m. The awards ceremony will observe at 12:35 p.m. Admission is free. Spectators could park in lot 89. A shuttle can be supplied from lot 89 to Forest Akers East Golf Course parking zone. For those that are ready, there is a strolling path from lot 89 to the golf course through the use of the cross stroll on Mount Hope Rd. Please seek advice from the occasion parking map for particulars on location.

Friday’s race can be broadcast reside on the Big Ten Network.

This is the fifth general time that the boys have hosted and the fourth that the ladies have. MSU has beforehand hosted the championship in 1970, 1981, 1993, 2003, 2012. The Spartan ladies received at house in 1981, whereas the boys had been victorious in 1970.

The Big Ten has gotten much more dominate with six ladies’s groups at present ranked within the high 25, together with No. 4 Oregon, No. 8 Northwestern, No. 12 Penn State, No. 19  Wisconsin, No. 20 Washington and No. 24 Michigan State. On the boys’s facet, 4 groups are ranked in No. 10 Oregon, No. 13 Michigan State, No. 15 Wisconsin and No. 25 Michigan.

MSU’s ladies’s staff has received two of the final three Big Ten championships and have captured 4 of the final six titles. Last season in Champaign, the Spartans completed sixth with 173 factors, whereas Oregon received its first Big Ten Cross Country title with 33 factors. Spartan Rachel Forsyth earned first-team All-Big Ten honors, whereas Kaitlyn Hynes was named to the second staff. Forsyth additionally was named to the All-Freshman staff and likewise tabbed Big Ten Freshman of the Year

This season, the Spartans have been led as soon as once more by Forsyth. She was MSU’s high finisher on the Nuttycombe Invitational (twentieth, 20:14.6) and the Gans Creek Classic (twenty eighth, 19:59.4). Taylor Pangburn, Kate Stewart-Barnett and Sarah Forsyth have additionally led the way in which for the Michigan State ladies this season.

Last season, the MSU males completed fourth with 125 factors. Andrew Nolan earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition with a eighth-place end within the race. Riley Hough seize second-team All-Big Ten honors. Moses Osterink earned All-Freshman staff accolades.

Hough and freshman Thomas Westphal have had breakout seasons for the Spartans. Hough has captured Athlete of the Week honors thrice, whereas Westphal has been Freshman of the Week the identical three weeks.

This is the primary time that the Spartans have hosted the Big Ten Championship since 2012. At that championship, MSU’s Sara Kroll, who’s at present a broadcaster for BTN, received the 6k race at Forest Akers East with a personal-best time of 20:13. The MSU ladies’s staff completed second with 75 factors. The Spartan males had been seventh with 183 factors.