Ok-State End the Common Season with Pre-National Invitational

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Ok-State males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups will finish the common season competing within the Pre-National Invitational on Friday (October 17) on the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia, Mo., hosted by Missouri. Tickets will be bought beginning at $12 on Ticketmaster.
 
The girls’s first 6k race of the season will start at 10 a.m., with the lads’s 8k beginning at 10:45 a.m. Other Big 12 Conference groups set to compete embody USTFCCCA nationally ranked BYU and Oklahoma State in addition to Kansas.
 
This time final yr, Ok-State competed within the Bradley Pink Classic in Peoria, Ill., with the ladies ending 11^th with 304 factors, the lads in 15^th place with 390 factors. During that race, then-junior Grace Meyer recorded her quickest 6k time and her first underneath 21 minutes at 20:47.9, the no. 10 time within the Ok-State college data.
 
The Wildcats final ran within the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational on October 3 with the ladies’s workforce claiming 9^th place with 291 factors within the Blue Division, the lads ending 6^th with 206 factors within the Gold Division.
 
Three girls recorded their greatest 5k instances to maneuver up within the Ok-State college data, senior Cecilia Fisher is not any. 9 with a time of 16:59.4, Meyer is tied at no. 12 with Deb Pihl at 17:06.0, whereas sophomore Stella Miner is not any. 19 together with her first 5k time of 17:17.8.
 
Leading the lads’s workforce within the 8k with a 5^th place general end, sophomore Jackson Esquibel completed with a time of 24:28.4, the no. 16 quickest time within the college data.
 
 

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How to observe the ‘Cats: For full data on the Ok-State Track and Field and Cross Country Teams, go to www.kstatesports.com and observe the workforce’s social media channels on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.