Weekend Recap: 2024 NCAA DIII Cross Country Conference Championships

The best season is the postseason.

We’re officially in that realm in NCAA DIII Cross Country.

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You probably want to know two things: how the top-10 of the most recent NCAA DIII National Coaches’ Polls fared and what were the two biggest meets of the weekend. Well, we got you covered.

How The Top-10 Fared
Men’s National Coaches’ Poll			Women’s National Coaches’ Poll
Team	Result		Team	Result
No. 1 UW-Whitewater	WIAC champion		No. 1 MIT	NEWMAC champion
No. 2 Wartburg	American Rivers champion		No. 2 Colorado College	SCAC champion
No. 3 Pomona-Pitzer	SCIAC champion		No. 3 Johns Hopkins	Centennial champion
No. 4 North Central (Ill.)	CCIW champion		No. 4 NYU	UAA runner-up
No. 5 SUNY Geneseo	SUNYAC champion		No. 5 Emory	UAA 4th place
No. 6 UW-Whitewater	WIAC runner-up		No. 6 Williams	NESCAC champion
No. 7 RPI	Liberty League champion		No. 7 SUNY Geneseo	SUNYAC champion
No. 8 NYU	UAA champion		No. 8 Washington (Mo.)	UAA 3rd place
No. 9 St. Olaf	MIAA champion		No. 9 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	SCIAC champion
No. 10 George Fox	NWC champion		No. 10 Carleton	MIAA runner-up

UAA Championships

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Men’s 8k

Matthew Coyle of Carnegie Mellon won the individual title in 24:21.0, which was 3.8 seconds ahead of NYU’s Ryan Tobin. Coyle was the UAA’s top returner, having been third last year, to become the first CMU male winner since George Degen in 2014.

The top-4 programs finished in their order of national rankings, with No. 8 NYU winning the title four the first time since 2009, totaling 34 points as Tobin led four Violets in the top-8.

No. 16 and defending champion Carnegie Mellon was runner-up with 50 points as Coyle was joined by three other Tartans in the top-11. No. 19 WashU had the Nos. 3 and 4 individuals in Cullen Capuano and Matthew Hornung to claim third place with 72 points ahead of No. 23 Emory (107). UChicago (125) rounded out the top-5 teams.

Women’s 6k

Brigid Hanley won the individual title by 10.4 seconds in 21:07.6 over teammate Liesl Scherrer. It was the first such title for the Eagles since 2022, when Annika Urban won. Hanley was third last year behind NYU’s Grace Richardson, who has exhausted her eligibility, and UChicago’s Evelyn Battleson-Gunkel, who didn’t start this race.

Five teams came nowhere near their ranked order, especially as No. 11 UChicago – even without Battleson-Gunkel – won the team crown for the first time since 2022, scoring 38 points with four top-10 runners led by fourth-placer Elisabeth Camic.

No. 4 NYU, the defending champions, were runner-up with 60 points, followed by No. 8 WashU (75), No. 5 Emory (85) and No. 13 Carnegie Mellon (118).

NESCAC Championships

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Men’s 8k

Oh, so sweep for Williams.

The 14th-ranked Ephs captured both the individual and team titles on Saturday. Charles Namiot led the charge with top individual honors in 24:80.1, nearly 11 seconds faster than his nearest pursuer. That ultimate low stick by Namiot proved to be the difference in the race for the team title, as Williams edged No. 17 Amherst by just one point, 76-77.

No. 19 Middlebury and No. 21 Tufts duked it out for third place and just one point separated them, too. The Panthers edged the Jumbos, 86-87.

Women’s 6k

Favorites reigned in the women’s race at the NESCAC Championships.

Audrey Maclean of Middlebury continued her strong season with an individual title in 20:21.5, nearly two seconds faster than Keira Rogan of Hamilton. Maclean, Rogan and Stephanie Ager of Wesleyan (Conn.) were lockstep at 1k before Maclean put a bit of distance between herself and that duo on her way to her second win in a row (Maclean also took top individual honors at the Connecticut College Invitational two weeks ago).

No. 6 Williams, the top-ranked team in the field, easily cruised to victory with a 35-87 win over No. 15 Amherst. The Ephs went 4-5-6-9-11 for their 35-point total and had five finishers before all but one team had two – which would be the eventual runner-up Mammoths. No. 18 Tufts finished third behind Williams and Amherst with No. 21 Middlebury further back in fourth.

Other Meets of Interest

WIAC Championships

The only race with multiple top-10 ranked men’s teams was that of the WIAC Championships in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Top-ranked UW-La Crosse steamrolled the field as it scored just 24 points on its way to a 31-point victory over No. 6 UW-Whitewater. Grant Matthai gave the Eagles the ultimate low stick with his 23:34.5 victory – a 14.2-second triumph over runner-up Christian Patzka of UW-Whitewater.