ACC Groups Set for 2025 NCAA Cross Country Regionals

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – All 18 applications across the Atlantic Coast Conference are set to compete in NCAA Cross Country Regionals on Friday, November 14. In 2024,15 ACC cross nation groups earned their place within the NCAA Championships, together with 5 ladies’s and 4 males’s groups that earned automated qualifier bids.
 
ACC groups will compete in seven of the 9 NCAA Cross Country Regionals all through the nation. The first three groups to hit the course might be Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami, because the three groups will compete within the NCAA South Regional hosted by North Alabama. The NCAA Southeast Regional held in Charlottesville, Virginia, will function eight ACC groups: Clemson, Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
 
Six ACC groups for each the boys and the ladies are ranked in the newest USTFCCCA Coaches Poll. On the boys’s facet, the ACC is led by No. 4 Virginia, adopted by No. 5 Syracuse, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 24 Virginia Tech and No. 27 North Carolina. For the ladies, the convention is led by No. 2 NC State, adopted by No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 13 North Carolina, No. 14 Stanford, No. 16 Virginia and No. 29 Duke. The ACC leads all conferences within the males’s ballot and is tied for probably the most within the ladies’s rating.
 
On Friday, October 31, NC State received its ninth ACC Women’s Cross Country Championship in 10 years, whereas Virginia received its first ACC Men’s Cross Country Championship since 2008.
  
Friday, Nov. 14 | NCAA Regional Championships
NCAA South Regional hosted by North Alabama
Women’s 6K – 9:30 a.m.; Men’s 8K 10:30 a.m.
Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami
 
NCAA Southeast Regional hosted by Virginia
Women’s 6K – 10 a.m.; Men’s 8K – 11 a.m.
Clemson, Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest
 
NCAA Great Lakes Regional hosted by Evansville
Women’s 6K – 11 a.m.; Men’s 8K – Noon
Notre Dame
 
NCAA Northeast Regional hosted by Boston College
Women’s 6K – 11 a.m.; Men’s 8K – Noon
Boston College, Syracuse
 
NCAA South Central Regional hosted by Arkansas
Women’s 6K – 11:30 a.m.; Men’s 8K – 12:30 p.m.
SMU
 
NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional hosted by Lehigh
Women’s 6K – Noon; Men’s 8K – 1 p.m.
Pitt
 
NCAA West Regional hosted by Sacramento State
Women’s 6K – Noon; Men’s 8K – 1 p.m.
California, Stanford
 
All occasions listed as Eastern
 
How it Works

• A complete of 31 groups will earn bids to the upcoming NCAA Division I Championships through Friday’s competitors. Eighteen (18) bids are automated (the highest two groups in every of 9 areas), and 13 at-large workforce choices might be introduced on Saturday, November 15, at 5 p.m. ET on NCAA.com.
• After groups have been decided, 38 extra people per gender are chosen to compete on the NCAA Championships. Among people NOT chosen as members of qualifying groups within the above course of, the highest 4 finishers at every regional meet are routinely chosen (every will need to have completed inside the prime 25 of the area).

 
Noting ACC Cross Country

• All 18 ACC cross nation applications are set for Friday’s NCAA Cross Country regionals, with groups and student-athletes searching for to advance to the NCAA Championships on Saturday, November 22, in Columbia, Missouri.
• The ACC has probably the most groups of any convention within the prime 30 of the newest Men’s USTFCCCA Coaches Poll. The ACC is led by No. 4 Virginia, adopted by No. 5 Syracuse, No. 12 Wake Forest, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 24 Virginia Tech and No. 27 North Carolina.
• The USTFCCCA additionally ranks six ACC ladies’s cross nation groups in its most up-to-date ballot. The convention is led by No. 2 NC State, adopted by No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 13 North Carolina, No. 14 Stanford, No. 16 Virginia and No. 29 Duke.
• The NC State ladies and Virginia males received the ACC Cross Country Championships on Friday, October 31, in Louisville, Kentucky. Wake Forest’s Rocky Hansen received the boys’s particular person title, whereas NC State’s Angelina Napoleon was the ladies’s champion. Napoleon was the seventh straight member of the Wolfpack to win the ACC Women’s Cross Country particular person championship. Hansen was the primary member of the Demon Deacon’s to win a person title since 2001.
• The first true freshman to complete every race was designated because the ACC Men’s and Women’s Freshman of the Year. Louisville’s Elsingi Kipruto received the boys’s honor with a third-place general end, crossing the road in 22:53.8. NC State’s Sadie Engelhardt completed tenth general, incomes the ladies’s honor with a time of 19:45.5.