SALT LAKE CITY – The 20th-ranked Utah cross country team will toe the line this Friday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m. (MT) against some of the nation’s best programs at the NCAA Mountain Regionals held in Lubbock, Texas, on the Chaparral Ridge Cross Country Course. This is the first time the mountain regionals have ever been held in the LBK.
NCAA MOUNTAIN REGIONALS (Meet Central)
HOST: Texas Tech
DATE: Friday, November 10
WHERE: Chaparral Ridge Cross Country Course (Course Map)
WHEN: 9 a.m. (MT) / 10 a.m. (CT) local
MTN REGIONAL HISTORY: https://bit.ly/49u8ZS0
LIVE RESULTS: https://bit.ly/40zxjOw
PARTICIPANTS: Air Force, #3 BYU, #13 Colorado, #27 Colorado State, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, #1 NAU, Nevada, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Northern Colorado, Southern Utah, Texas Tech, #20 Utah, Utah State, #22 Utah Valley, Weber State, Wyoming
UTAH PARTICIPANTS: McKaylie Caesar, Morgan Jensen, Ellie Lundgreen, Kyla Martin, Clara Mayfield, Katarzyna Nowakowska, Anna Peters, Karli Branch (alt)
THE LINE UP
Head coach Kyle Kepler will send seven runners to compete in arguably the toughest region in the country this Friday with good mix of veterans and newcomers. Of the seven, McKaylie Caesar, Morgan Jensen, Ellie Lundgreen and Clara Mayfield come into the meet with experience in the regional meet. Meanwhile, the freshmen crew of Kyla Martin, Katarzyna Nowakowska and Anna Peters will be making their first appearane at a regional race.
Mayfield has the best finish among those with experience at the regionals posting runner-up honors the last two seasons at the Division III level during her illustrious career at Carleton College. Between Caesar, Jensen and Lundgreen, Jensen has had the best finish at the Division I level, placing 33rd-overall last season in Albuquerque. Caesar’s best finish at the west regionals came last season as well when she crossed in 48th-place. Lundgreen’s lone run at the regionals came in 2019 when she placed 61st.
STACKED REGIONAL
Of the 19 teams competing in the mountain regional, six are ranked in the USTFCCCA Top-30 Poll. The six ranked teams in the mountain regional ties with the west for the most ranked teams among the nine regions. The six ranked teams lining up at Chaparral Ridge Cross Country Course include top-ranked NAU, #3 BYU, #13 Colorado, #20 Utah, #22 Utah Valley and…
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