Werner's Dream Season continues with first of two National Meets, Nike Cross Nationals Saturday

Werner’s Dream Season continues with first of two national meets, 
Nike Cross Nationals Saturday

While anyone could have predicted that Ste. Genevieve freshman Taylor Werner would was going to have a great first high school cross country season after her performances as an 8^th grader, it’s hard to imagine anyone thought it was going to be this good. How good has it been? Amazing!

15 Missourians qualify for 2012 NCAA DI Cross Country Nationals

15 Missourians qualify for 2012 NCAA DI Cross Country Nationals

After the regional championships on Friday, Saturday the full field of qualifiers for the 2012 NCAA Division I Cross Country National Championships were announced. The national meet will be held in Louisville for the first time at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park. Another first, the meet has been moved up from its traditional Monday before Thanksgiving to the Saturday before. 

In what would have to be a record or close to it, 15 athletes who prepped at Missouri High Schools have qualified for nationals. Several others are on the rosters or alternates for teams that have qualified. 

2012 NCAA DI Cross Country Midwest Regional

2012 NCAA Division I Cross Country Midwest Regional @ MSU

OU and OSU men tie for 1st, with Tulsa 2 points back, Mizzou Men 5^th

#2 Iowa State Women roll, while OSU edges Minnesota by 1 point

Topfer, Storms, and Richardson hope for individual Nationals bids

  Springfield, Missouri

For the second time in four years, Missouri State University hosted the NCAA Division I Cross Country Midwest Regional Friday in Springfield. With the Division I National Championship Meet moved from the Monday before Thanksgiving to the Saturday before, that meant regionals moved up a day to Friday. The race was held on the MSU Cross Country Course on the Springfield Underground site, developed by former MSU coach and current Northern Illinois Coach Greg Hipp in 2007.

Athletes from Division I schools across nine states competed, with 35 women’s teams and 30 men’s teams represented. At stake were qualifying spots to the National Championship Meet as well as trophies to the top two teams and All-Region honors to the top 25 finishers. The top two finishing teams from each of the nine regionals earned automatic spots to Nationals while another 13 at-large berths are to be announced sometime today. The top four individual finishers not from a qualifying team earn automatic spots at nationals while a handful of at-large individual spots will be handed out today also.