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Big Ten Championships Among Three Home Meets on 2022 Men’s Cross Country Schedule

Big Ten Championships Among Three Home Meets on 2022 Men's Cross Country Schedule


Big Ten Championships Among Three Home Meets on 2022 Men’s Cross Country Schedule

7/8/2022 2:19:00 PM

// Kyle Terwillegar

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For the first time since 2008, the Big Ten Cross Country Championships will return to the campus of the University of Michigan, with the event serving as the highlight of a three-home-meet fall schedule for the Wolverine men announced Friday (July 8) by director of track and field/cross country Kevin Sullivan.

The notoriously challenging terrain of the U-M Golf Course will be the setting for the conference championships on Oct. 28, in what will be the eighth running of the men’s meet hosted by U-M.

“The U-M Golf Course is an exciting, dynamic circuit that tests runners in so many ways, physically and mentally. It’s a true cross country challenge,” said Sullivan, who competed on the course multiple times during his decorated Michigan career from 1993-97. “It will be fun to have the conference meet here and have a few of our conference foes and rivals here for a competition to preview the course in early September, as well.”

U-M Golf Course has not hosted a cross country competition since the 2008 Big Ten Championships.

Michigan previously played host for the 1924, 1925 and 1927 editions of the championships on courses that started at Ferry Field and concluded at the U-M Golf Course. The 1974, 1985, 1998 and 2008 Big Ten Championships were run on a variation of the same course that will be used this fall, which was designed by former coach Ron Warhurst in 1974.

The road to Big Tens begins with back-to-back home meets on Sept. 2 and 9, as the Wolverines host the annual Michigan Open at Hudson Mills Metropark in neighboring Dexter and the Big Ten Preview at the U-M Golf Course, respectively.

The regular season also will include important dates at the Bradley Invitational (Sept. 23), Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational (Sept. 30) and Wisconsin Nuttycombe Invitational (Oct. 14).

Michigan will have a final low-key tune-up opportunity at the Eastern Michigan Fall Classic in Dexter (Oct. 21).

Big Tens will be followed two weekends later by the NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Nov. 11) in Terre Haute, Ind.

Pending qualification, the Wolverines would close the season at the 2022 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Stillwater,…

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