Wildcats Take Fast Journey to Lawrence for Big 12 Championship

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Ok-State males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups start the postseason with the Big 12 Championship on Friday (October 31) down the highway in Lawrence, Kan., at Rim Rock Farm, hosted by Kansas.

The males will begin the day at 10 a.m. with the 8k, the ladies’s 6k will observe at 11 a.m. Parking and admission is free and open to the general public or the races could be streamed on ESPN+.

Rim Rock Farm is a well-known course to the Wildcats, beginning the 2022-24 seasons racing within the Bob Timmons Classic. The course additionally hosts annual highschool races, a number of Ok-State freshmen having competed in them.

This season the primary 15 finishers in each the lads’s and ladies’s races might be thought of for the All-Big 12 crew. Last 12 months, within the first season with a 16-team convention, the ladies’s crew completed 10^th, the lads’s crew in 12^th place. Then-freshman Christine Jerono led the ladies in 51^st place, her time of 21:10.7.

During the Pre-National Invitational on October 17, the ladies ran within the first 6k of the season as senior Cecilia Fisher (61^st; 20:40.6) and sophomore Stella Miner (82^nd; 20:56.3) each climbed up the Ok-State all-time top-25, at no. 8 and no. 13, respectively.

Similarly, sophomore Jackson Esquibel (80^th; 24:26.6) shaved one other couple seconds off his 8k private finest to advance one spot to no. 15 within the Ok-State information.

“Obviously KU, a lot of the kids are really familiar with it. So, I think that’s going to play into our favor, I think we can manage a tougher course like that,” head coach Kate Bucknam stated. “Some kids really thrive on the hunt and others don’t, you know, they need more of a tougher course to be able to kind of show their strengths. And so, we’ll see how that plays into our favor, kind of going into some tougher, course wise, tougher races.”

— k-statesports.com —

 
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