MSU Males’s Cross Country, Rachel Forsyth Earn Bids to NCAA Championship

EAST LANSING, MICH. – Michigan State males’s cross nation was awarded an at-large bid to compete on the 2025 NCAA Championships in Columbia, Missouri on Saturday, Nov. 22, whereas Rachel Forsyth was chosen as a person on the ladies’s facet, it was introduced in by the NCAA on Saturday.

The 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championships might be held on the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia. The girls will compete in a 6K race at 10:20 a.m. ET, whereas the lads will run a 10K race at 11:10 a.m. ET. 

The Gans Creek course is a really acquainted course for MSU. The Spartans will journey again to Columbia for his or her second race on the Gan Creek Cross Country Course. Earlier this season, MSU competed on the Gans Creek Classic on Sept. 26 when the lads completed tenth.

This is the lads’s first look as a workforce because the 2021 season. Hough competed as a person final yr. In his first NCAA Championship, he had a robust displaying ending eightieth with a time of 29:47.2.

At the Great Lakes Regional on Friday, the Michigan State males matched final yr’s efficiency, ending fourth with 103 factors. Riley Hough as soon as once more was the Spartans’ high runner, ending tenth, crossing the road in 29:58.11 within the 10k race. Standout freshman Thomas Westphal was twelfth in his first collegiate 10k (30:06.0). Jack Pennewell ended twenty second with a time of 30:28.3. Hough, Westphal and Pennewell all earned All-Region honors. Hough and Pennewell each repeated as All-Region honorees.

The Spartans be a part of Oregon, Michigan and Wisconsin as Big Ten males’s groups competing within the NCAA Championships.

All-American Rachel Forsyth completed third on the Great Lakes Regional to earn an at-large spot. She completed with a season-best time of 19:45.2. Forsyth additionally repeated with All-Region honors.