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XC Preview: NCAA Championships – University of Tennessee Athletics

XC Preview: NCAA Championships - University of Tennessee Athletics


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The No. 14 Tennessee men’s cross country team is set to race at the NCAA Championships on Saturday in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The men’s 10K race goes off from Oklahoma State’s Greiner Family OSU Cross Country Course at 11:10 a.m. ET.
 
The race will air live and commercial-free on ESPNU, with coverage beginning at 10 a.m. Live results will be provided by PrimeTime Timing and can be found HERE.
 
For more meet information, click this LINK.
 
Tennessee qualified for the national meet at last week’s NCAA South Regional, winning the region for the first time since 2002 and snagging an automatic qualifying spot. It is the first appearance by the men at the NCAA Championships since 2005.
 
Yaseen Abdalla and Dylan Jacobs led the Vols with second and third-place finishes at regionals, while Nate Kawalec placed ninth to give UT three men in the top 10. Karl Thiessen and Eli Nahom rounded out Tennessee’s scoring by placing 12th and 19th, respectively.
 

The Vols enter the meet ranked 14th in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll and sit No. 1 in the South Region following last week’s region title.
 
THE LINEUP

The men representing the Orange & White in Stillwater are listed below.
 
Yaseen Abdalla, Canaan Anderson, Riley Buchholz, Dylan Jacobs, Nate Kawalec, Jacob Lewis, Eli Nahom and Karl Thiessen.
 

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