Tops Set for NCAA Regionals Friday

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Cross Country will compete within the NCAA Southeast Regionals on Friday, November 14 in Earlysville, Virginia. The meet will probably be hosted by the University of Virginia.

MEET INFO 

ABOUT THE TOPS 

• WKU final competed within the Conference USA Championships on Saturday, Nov. 1 in Huntsville, Ala. The males claimed seventh whereas the ladies took house ninth.
• Kinley Kunkel set one other new greatest within the 6k race, ending in 20:36, good for seventh place and First Team All-CUSA.
• Kunkel improved over 28 seconds from her earlier PR set on the Angel Mounds Invitational on Oct. 17.
• Kunkel’s time is the third greatest in program historical past within the girls’s 6k.
• Her time can also be the perfect in a 6k race since becoming a member of Conference USA again in 2014.
• Kunkel is simply the third ever for WKU to earn First Team All-CUSA and the primary since 2015.
• Kunkel has now completed within the top-10 in three of 4 meets this season.
• In whole, 10 Hilltoppers completed with a brand new private greatest on the Championships on Nov. 1. Five for the ladies and 5 for the lads.
• Brooke Greenwell completed inside the top-50, taking forty seventh with a private greatest mark of 21:56.
• Jake Younger led the way in which for the lads within the championship race, ending in 25:03, good for twenty eighth place.
• Mikie Carnell adopted shut behind and set PR whereas claiming thirty second place.
• Another freshman in Sam Herbig joined Carnell and set a PR with a mark of 25:30.
• Trevor Hudnall additionally set a private greatest ending in 25:35 and cracking the top-40.

ABOUT THE MEET

• Saturday’s regional meet marks the second consecutive season that the Hilltoppers have competed.
• This yr WKU will run 12 athletes on the meet in comparison with simply two from a yr in the past.
• Kinley Kunkel additionally ran within the meet final season, ending up in 87th place.
• Last yr’s meet was held in Rock Hill S.C. and was hosted by Winthrop University.
• ACC faculties swept the staff titles final season as Virginia claimed the ladies’s title and NC State took the lads’s.
• The top-two ending groups from each races advance to the NCAA Championships.

A LOOK AT THE FIELD

• The males’s subject is highlighted by 4 ACC squads that head up the rankings in Virginia, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, and North Carolina.
• The girls’s subject finds three ACC groups atop the rankings in NC State, North Carolina, and Virginia.
• Conference USA foe Liberty finds itself within the top-10 in each regional rankings as effectively, checking in at No. 10 in every.

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