Cross Country Hornets Journey To Missouri For Gans Creek Classic

Men’s Cross Country | 9/24/2026 12:44:00 PM

Emporia State Cross Country

at Gans Creek Classic
Gans Creek Cross Country Course • Columbia, Mo.
Friday, September 25 • Women’s 6K at 9:45 a.m./Men’s 8K at 10:30 a.m.
Live Results • Complete Notes in pdf
Up Next: Pre-Nationals
Sunday, October 11 • 9:45 a.m.
Rim Rock Farm • Lawrence, Kan.

SHOW ME

Emporia State leaves Kansas for the primary time this season as they head to Columbia, Mo. to participate within the Gans Creek Classic hosted by the University of Missouri. There will probably be 4 collegiate races on Friday with ESU scheduled to compete in teh Black Open races. Gans Creek would be the web site of this yr’s SEC Championships.

LAST RUN

The Emporia State girls positioned fourth and the lads fifth on the Ollie Isom Invitational on September 11 in El Dorado, Kan.

The Hornet girls ran a good pack with their 5 scorers all ending inside ten spots of one another.  Brett Jacobson was the highest finisher, inserting nineteenth in  a time of 20:53.3 over the 5 kilometer course.  Emma Bartholome ran 21:01.4 to put twenty first whereas Montgomery Morgan ran 21:14.7 and Maria Ham was clocked in 21:18.5 to complete in twenty third and twenty fourth respectively.  Lilly Skalsky was the ultimate scorer with a time of 21:36.9 to put twenty ninth total for Emporia State.

The Hornet males had 5 athletes within the prime 31 led by Bryce Roberts in a time of 27:40.6 to put seventeenth over the eight kilometer course. Jordan Schierbaum and Isaac Ibendahl completed in nineteenth and twentieth with Schriebaum operating 27:44.3 and Ibendahl clocking in at 27:51.4 for ESU. Gage Chapman ran 28:04.5 to put twenty fourth and Carson Fouard was thirty first in 28:31.6 to spherical out the Hornet scoring.

THE COACH

Justin Hill is in his third yr as head cross nation coach at Emporia State and will probably be answerable for the center distance and distance runners for the Hornet observe and subject program. Hill was the director of operations and assistant cross nation coach for the Hornets from 2021-24. He served as meet director for Emporia State’s common season residence meets along with overseeing the operational features of the Hornet cross nation and observe and subject packages.

BIG TEAM

The Hornets introduced again 5 of the highest six males and 4 of the highest 5 girls runners from final yr and have a complete of 20 males and 16 girls in this system this yr

QUICK LOOK AT THE HORNETS

The Emporia State males completed third on the JK Gold Classic and fifth on the Ollie Isom Invitational.

Dylan Hunter was the highest finisher for ESU on the JK Gold with a time of 19:14.14 over six kilometers. Bryce Roberts led the Hornets on the Ollie Isom with a time of 27:40.6 over the eight kilometer course. Jordan Schierbaum was the second runner in each races for Emporia State.

The Hornet girls positioned third on the JK Gold Classic and fourth on the Ollie Isom Invitational. Montgomery Morgan led ESU runners with a time of 19:46.41 on the JK Gold whereas Brett Jacobsen was the highest Hornet finisher on the Ollie Isom in 20:53.3 with each races going 5 kilometers. Emma Bartholome was second on the Ollie Isom and third on the JK Gold.  

LAST TIME AT GANS CREEK

The Emporia State women and men each positioned 18th out of almost 30 groups competing on the Gans Creek Classic.

There have been almost 400 runners within the males’s 8K race.  Dylan Hunter was the highest finisher for the Hornets operating 25:39.1 to put 91st total.  Luke Gleason ran 25:48.5 to put 106th and Treyton Laurance was one hundred and twentieth in 25:58.4 to spherical out the highest three for ESU. 

The girls’s race noticed 300 rivals run the 6K course.  Mason Bina paced Emporia State with a time of 23:35.6 as she positioned ninety fifth total whereas Catherine Lyon was 136th in 24:08.9 because the second Hornet finisher. Diana Messick ran 24:28.3 to complete in a hundred and fifty fifth and transfer into the highest three for the Hornets. 

  

HOW TOUGH IS IT?

The MIAA has 4 girls’s groups and three males’s groups within the USTFCCCA National Top 30. The MIAA and RMAC are the one leagues with no less than three groups ranked in each the lads’s and girls’s polls.

Six completely different MIAA faculties are represented within the USTFCCCA Central Regional Rankings. The MIAA has 5 groups in each the lads’s and girls’s regional rankings.

UP NEXT

The Hornets will participate within the NCAA Division II Pre-Nationals meet at Rim Rock Farm on Sunday, October 12 exterior Lawrence, Kan.