This Week in ACC Cross Country

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference cross nation season will start on Friday, August 29, with 11 groups in motion. Over the primary week of the season, a complete of 14 ACC groups will compete in quite a lot of meets.
 
NC State was chosen because the preseason favourite to win the ACC Women’s Cross Country championship, by a vote of the league’s 18 head coaches. The Wolfpack obtained 12 of the attainable 18 first-place votes, incomes a league-best 308 complete factors. Notre Dame obtained the ultimate six first-place votes, ending with 301 factors and a second-place end within the ballot. Stanford (289 factors), North Carolina (267), and Virginia (254) rounded out the top-five of the annual ballot.
 
Reigning ACC champion Wake Forest was chosen as the boys’s cross nation preseason favourite, receiving 15 of the 17 attainable first-place votes to complete with 285 factors. Virginia completed second within the ballot with 258 factors, additionally receiving one first-place vote. Stanford was predicted to complete third with 256 factors, whereas North Carolina and Notre Dame tied for fourth place at 226 factors apiece. The Fighting Irish additionally obtained the ultimate first place vote forward of the season.
 
The ACC leads the nation in each the boys’s and girls’s USTFCCCA preseason coaches’ polls. Nine girls’s groups from the ACC seem within the group’s high 30, led by No. 3 NC State. The Wolfpack was adopted by No. 6 Stanford, No. 13 North Carolina, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 20 Virginia, No. 26 Boston College, No. 27 Florida State, No. 29 Syracuse and No. 30 Wake Forest.
 
In the USTFCCCA males’s preseason ballot, Virginia and Stanford start the season in a tie for sixth place to steer the ACC. The Cavaliers and Cardinal are adopted by Notre Dame at No. 8, Wake Forest at No. 10, Syracuse at No. 12 and North Carolina at No. 18.
 
Noting ACC Cross Country

• The ACC has a complete of 15 ranked groups (9 girls and 6 males), which is six greater than some other convention. The ACC additionally has probably the most ranked groups in each genders.
• Preseason favourite Wake Forest received its second ACC Men’s Cross Country Championship in three years in 2024. The Demon Deacons earned 15 of the 17 attainable first-place votes within the preseason ballot. 
• Despite being picked because the ACC preseason favourite, the Wake Forest males are the fourth-highest ranked ACC crew nationally, following Stanford, Notre Dame, and Virginia.
• In 2024, Notre Dame received its first-ever ACC Women’s Cross Country Championship. The Fighting Irish have been picked second within the ACC preseason ballot for 2025. 
• The ACC earned 15 USTFCCCA All-America honors (eight girls, seven males) on the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Championships, ending within the high 40 individually.  

 
ACC Cross Country Weekly Schedule
Friday, August 29
California at USF Invitational (San Francisco, Calif.)
Clemson at Eye Opener (Spartanburg, S.C.)
Florida State at Florida Intercollegiate Cross Country Invitational (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Georgia Tech at Kennesaw State Invitational (Kennesaw, Ga.)
Miami at FAU Invitational (Boca Raton, Fla.)
North Carolina at Charlotte Opener (Charlotte, N.C.)
Notre Dame at Winrow Valparaiso Open (Valparaiso, Ind.)
Pitt at Panther Opener (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
SMU at Cross Country on the Seashore (Corpus Christi, Texas)
Stanford at USF Invitational (San Francisco, Calif.)
Wake Forest vs. UNC Greensboro (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
 
Saturday, August 30
Virginia at Spider Alumni Open (Richmond, Va.)
Syracuse at Harry Lang Invitational (Hamilton, N.Y.)
 
Tuesday, September 2

Duke vs. North Carolina A&T/North Carolina Central (Durham, N.C.)