USTFCCCA News & Notes
Official 2016 NCAA Division I Championships Qualifiers Announced
INDIANAPOLIS – Official team and individual qualifiers into the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships were announced Saturday by the NCAA.
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The full list of teams – separated into automatic qualifiers that finished top-two in their respective regions and at-large qualifiers – and individuals can be found below.
Rankings displayed alongside team names are drawn from the pre-Regionals USTFCCCA National Coaches’ Polls.
NOTES:
- Colorado’s men currently hold the nation’s longest active streak at 25. They just edged out the Stanford women and men, who have been to NCAAs 24 and 23 years in a row, respectively.
- Next on the men’s list are Stanford (23 consecutive years), BYU (18), Iona (15) and Oklahoma State (14).
- Next on the women’s list are Michigan State (16 consecutive years), Michigan (15), and both Oregon and Washington (10).
- The women of Air Force, Louisville, Mississippi, Penn and Portland are making their first-ever trips to the NCAA Championships in their respective programs’ histories, as are the men of Middle Tennessee.
- The team returning to the NCAA Championships after the longest break is Illinois, whose men last appeared at the Championships in 1986. Eastern Michigan’s women made it for the first time since 1996, while the Navy men are in the field for the first time since 1997.
The NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships will be contested November 19 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The meet will be broadcast live online at NCAA.com.
Regional athletes and coaches of the year will be announced Tuesday.
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WOMEN |
Automatic Qualifiers |
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| Great Lakes | Great Lakes |
| #14 Wisconsin* | #5 Michigan* |
| #18 Michigan State | #14 Notre Dame |
| Mid-Atlantic | Mid-Atlantic |
| #22 Georgetown* | #9 Penn State* |
| Navy (NR) | #21 Villanova |
| Midwest | Midwest |
| #9 Oklahoma State* | RV Missouri* |
| #23 Tulsa | #17 Oklahoma State |
| Mountain | Mountain |
| #1 Northern Arizona* | #1 Colorado* |
| #2 Colorado | #6 New Mexico |
| Northeast | Northeast |
| #5 Syracuse* | #3 Providence* |
| #7 Iona | #18 Harvard |
| South | South |
| #11 Mississippi* | RV Mississippi State* |
| #26 Middle Tennessee | #14 Mississippi |
| South Central | South Central |
| #6 Arkansas* | #7 Arkansas* |
| RV Texas | #25 Baylor |
| Southeast | Southeast |
| #27 NC State* | #2 NC State* |
| #16 Virginia | NR Louisville |
| West | West |
| #4 Stanford | #7 Stanford* |
| #12 Portland | #4 Washington |
At-Large Qualifiers |
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| #20 Boise State #3 BYU California #19 Colorado State Dartmouth Illinois #13 Iowa State #10 Oregon #30 Providence #24 Southern Utah #8 UCLA #15 UTEP #17 Washington State |
Air Force #18 BYU #13 Eastern Michigan #12 Iowa State #22 Michigan State #11 Oregon #24 Penn #10 Portland #16 San Francisco UCLA (RV) #20 Utah Wisconsin #23 Yale |
Individual Qualifiers |
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Great Lakes Mid-Atlantic Midwest Mountain Northeast South South Central Southeast West |
Great Lakes Mid-Atlantic Midwest Mountain Northeast South South Central Southeast West |