Cross Country | No. 4 Men’s and No. 15 Women’s Virginia Cross Country Groups Set for ACC Championships Friday

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The No. 4/No. 15 Virginia males’s and ladies’s cross nation packages journey to Louisville, Ky. for the 2025 ACC Cross Country Championships on Friday (Oct. 31) on the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park. The ladies are set to kick issues with an 6k race at 9:40 a.m. The males will observe with a 8k race set to start at 10:30 a.m.

How to Follow
The 2025 ACC Cross Country Championships will probably be streamed on ACC Network which is offered via the ESPN app and at WatchESPN.com for purchasers who’ve the ACC Network as a part of their TV subscription. Links to each the printed and dwell outcomes can be found at VirginiaSports activities.com. Fans may also get updates by following this system’s official Twitter account (@UVATFCC).

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Rankings
The Cavalier males examine in at No. 4 forward of the ACC Championships whereas the Virginia ladies are ranked No. 15 within the newest USTFCCCA rankings. The ACC has boasted robust groups all through the season as eight males’s groups and 7 ladies’s groups are ranked nationally:

ACC Championships Notes 

• The UVA males have received the ACC title 4 occasions (1984, 2005, 2007, 2008)
• The Virginia ladies have been topped champions on three events (1981, 1982, 2015)
• Virginia’s Margaret Groos received the first-ever ACC ladies’s cross nation particular person championship in 1978 – 4 Cavaliers have achieved the feat since together with Lesley Welch (1982), Patty Matava (1987) and Claire Forbes (1992)
• Two UVA males have topped three ACC particular person Champions together with Ryan Foster (2008), Emil Heineking (2009, 2010) and Gary Martin (2024)
• Martin broke the ACC Championship document clocking 22:17.6 for 8k. The earlier document stood at 22:50.7 set by Justyn Knight of Syracuse in 2016.
• Both Cavalier women and men are coming off a fourth place end from a season in the past when the boys scored 94 factors whereas the ladies tallied a complete of 152 factors

The Smithfield Commonwealth Clash
The Smithfield Commonwealth Clash, initially referred to as the Commonwealth Challenge (2005-2007), has been part of the UVA-Virginia Tech rivalry since 2014. It is an all-sports, points-based program with the Commonwealth Clash trophy offered to the profitable college every year for its dominance in head-to-head competitions.

In males’s and ladies’s cross nation, the commonwealth conflict level is awarded to the group that finishes increased on the ACC Championships. Virginia at the moment leads the general competitors 2.5-0.5.