No. 4 Men’s and No. 12 Women’s Cross Country Groups Dominate at 2025 Panorama Farms Invitational 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The No. 4 and No. 12 ranked Virginia males’s and ladies’s cross nation packages put collectively a dominant efficiency on the 2025 Panorama Farms Invitational on Friday, Oct. 17 as each groups completed first within the group standings on the Panorama Farms Cross Country Course in Charlottesville, Va.

In the boys’s 8k, Nate Mountain led the way in which for the Cavaliers with a fourth-place end clocking 23:18.7 for 8k. Mountain was pulled alongside by Rocky Hansen of Wake Forest’s course file setting time of twenty-two:44.4. Not far behind Mountain was senior trio in Brett Gradner (23:27.6), Justin Wachtel (23:41.7) and Will Daley (23:44.4) in eighth, ninth and 10^th place. Nicholas Bendtsen (23:55.2, 14th), Richard Moreno (24:07.6, twenty first) and Adam Balewicz (24:08.9, twenty second) all turned in stable performances rounding out the highest 25 finishers for the Cavaliers.

On the ladies’s facet, Gillian Bushee was the highest Cavalier finisher with a third-place end crossing the road in 20:09.5 for 6k. Bushee was the 2025 Virginia Invitational champion earlier within the season. Also recording a prime 10 end was Stella Kermes (20:20.9) in fifth place, Tatum Olesen (20:37.7) in ninth place and Mary Ellen Eudaly (20:41.3) in 10^th place. Cate DeSousa (20:46.9, eleventh), Katie Payne (20:51.1, 14th), Ella Woehlcke (20:53.9, sixteenth) and Clark Stewart (21:00.9, twentieth) all put collectively sturdy performances to complete inside the highest 20 of 157 contributors.

From Director of Cross Country & Track & Field Vin Lananna:
“The women were superb. They followed the plan perfectly and ran up front the whole way with some good performances all the way around. This was a breakout race for a lot of our women, so they did a really great job. On the men’s side, we were a little shorthanded and even with that, the guys did a good job and took care of business. I was really impressed with all of them, and I think it was an impressive race by Rocky Hansen of Wake Forest to run by himself and make the race go out really fast.”

Panorama Farms Invitational
Panorama Farms Cross Country Course
Charlottesville, Va.

Women’s 6k Race

1. Virginia — 33

2. Virginia Tech — 70

3. Elon — 99

4. Ohio — 113

5. High Jump — 116

6. Charlotte — 120

7. NC State — 198

8. Davidson — 259

9. East Carolina — 284

10. Radford — 303

11. JMU — 338

12. Charleston Southern — 340

13. Duquesne — 401

14. VMI — 423

15. Norfolk State — 437

16. Loyola (MD) — 437

Men’s 8k Race

1. Virginia — 36

2. Virginia Tech — 43

3. Wake Forest — 44

4. Charlotte — 119

5. Ohio — 186

6. Charleston Southern — 192

7. High Point — 212

8. Norfolk State — 247

9. UNC- Greensboro — 286

10. Duquesne — 291

11. East Carolina — 358

12. Radford — 364

13. Elon — 369

14. Loyola (MD) — 389

15. VMI — 448

Up Next

The Virginia males’s and ladies’s cross nation groups are set to journey to Louisville, Ky. to compete on the 2025 ACC Cross Country Championships at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park on Friday, Oct. 31. The Women’s 6k race is scheduled to go off at 9:30 a.m. with the boys’s 8k set for 10:30 a.m.