Wildcats Set for NCAA West Regional in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO — The Arizona Cross Country program heads to Northern California on Friday for the 2025 NCAA West Regional, hosted by Sacramento State at Haggin Oaks Golf Course.

The girls’s 6k will start at 10 a.m. MST, adopted by the lads’s 10k at 11 a.m. MST.

Arizona enters postseason weekend with momentum after sturdy group and particular person performances on the Big 12 Championships, the place a pair of freshmen—Evans Tanui and Praise Chepkemoi—as soon as once more led the Wildcats. Both squads now look to shut out the autumn with their greatest race of the season in a deep and aggressive West Region.

“This meet serves as a culmination of a good first fall,” Associate Head Coach Jay Koloseus stated. “We hope to continue to place better than last year and better than we are expected to here in Sacramento. With such a young team, I hope we can continue to turn heads and possibly get an athlete or two in the All-West Regional selection.”

Arizona’s NCAA West Regional Lineup

Men

• Evans Tanui

• Lawi Ngetich

• Bryson Nielsen

• Michael Urbanski

• Max Liao

• Kai Espinosa Gonzalez

Women

• Praise Chepkemoi

• Laina Friedmann

• Amelia North

• Kara Mickelson

• Hailey Puklin

• Dunja Sikima

Last Time Out – Big 12 Championships

At the convention meet in Lawrence, freshman Evans Tanui as soon as once more set the tone for the lads, putting twenty eighth total in 23:48.0. He was adopted by Lawi Ngetich (24:29.3) and Michael Urbanski (24:39.5), with freshmen Bryson Nielsen and sophomore Max Liao rounding out the scoring 5. The Wildcats positioned eighth as a group with 214 factors in one of many strongest leagues within the nation.

Freshman Praise Chepkemoi led the Arizona girls within the 6k with a time of 21:37.2, adopted by freshman Amelia North (22:24.5) and Kara Mickelson (22:41.5). Laina Friedmann and Hailey Puklin accomplished Arizona’s scoring 5. The girls completed fifteenth total.

NCAA Advancement Structure

The high two groups on each the lads’s and girls’s sides will routinely qualify for the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championships. An extra 13 groups nationwide will earn at-large bids. Individuals might also safe championship berths by putting within the high 25 total and ending among the many high 4 athletes not on an advancing group.

Live outcomes for the 2025 NCAA West Regional will be discovered here.

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