2018 NAIA Men's Cross Country National Championships Field Revealed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 36 team, 83 individual field has been announced for the 63rd Annual NAIA Men’s Cross Country National Championships that will be held on November 16. The event will take place at Seminole Valley Cross Country Course in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The men’s 8–kilometer race will begin at 11:30 a.m. CST.
- This is the first time in NAIA Cross Country Championships history that the race will be held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mount Mercy (Iowa) will host again in 2020.
- The field is made up of 22 automatic qualifiers (AQ), one host berth and 13 at-large berths. A team received an automatic berth by winning the conference championship meet or was the meet runner-up and was ranked in the top 30 in the final poll.
- One conference received two automatic berths: Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference - St. Francis (Ill) and Olivet Nazarene (Ill.). In addition to the meet champion, the meet runner-up that was ranked in the top 30 also received an automatic berth.
- Mount Mercy (Iowa) earned the host berth.
- The 13 at-large berths are determined by the final regular-season Coaches’ Top 25 Poll that can be seen by clicking here. These teams received an at-large berth – Southern Oregon, Cornerstone (Mich.), Westmont (Calif.), Eastern Oregon, Taylor (Ind.) Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Northwest Christian (Ore.) Madonna (Mich.), California-Merced, Oregon Tech, Campbellsville (Ky.), Milligan (Tenn.), Siena Heights (Mich.).
- In addition to the team qualifiers and at-large bids, 83 athletes will compete as individual qualifiers.
- British Columbia was the 2017 cross country men’s champion.
- Fans can watch the post-race awards ceremony free beginning at approximately 1:30 p.m. CST. The national championship event takes place on Nov. 16 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at the Seminole Valley Cross Country Course. To access the live video stream of the ceremony and find more information, click here.
- For all other information regarding the Men’s Cross Country National Championships, click here.
2018 NAIA Men’s Cross Country National Championships – Teams
Columbia American Midwest Conference Champion
Montreat (N.C.) Appalachian Athletic Conference Champion
Haskell (Kan.) Association of Independent Institutions Champion
Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) California Pacific Conference Champion
College of Idaho Cascade Collegiate Conference Champion
St. Francis (Ill.) Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Champion
Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Runner-Up
Indiana Wesleyan Crossroads Conference Champion
Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) Frontier Conference Champion
The Master’s (Calif.) Golden State Athletic Conference Champion
Dordt (Iowa) Great Plains Athletic Conference Champion
Xavier (La.) Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Champion
Benedictine (Kan.) Heart of America Athletic Conference Champion
St. Mary (Kan.) Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Champion
West Virginia Tech River States Conference Champion
Shawnee State (Ohio) Mid-South Conference Champion
Dakota State (S.D.) North Star Athletic Association Champion
Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) Red River Athletic Conference Champion
Oklahoma City Sooner Athletic Conference Champion
Bethel (Tenn.) Southern States Athletic Conference Champion
SCAD Savannah (Ga.) The Sun Conference Champion
Aquinas (Mich.) Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference Champion
Mount Mercy (Iowa) Host
Southern Oregon At-large 1 | Cascade Collegiate Conference
Cornerstone (Mich.) At-large 2 | Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
Westmont (Calif.) At-large 3 | Golden State Athletic Conference
Eastern Oregon At-large 4 | Cascade Collegiate Conference
Taylor (Ind.) At-large 5 | Crossroads Conference
Rocky Mountain (Mont.) At-large 6 | Frontier Conference
Northwest Christian (Ore.) At-large 7 | Cascade Collegiate Conference
Madonna (Mic.) At-large 8 | Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
California-Merced At-large 9 | California Pacific Athletic Conference
Oregon Tech At-large 10 | Cascade Collegiate Conference
Campbellsville (Ky.) At-large 11 | Mid-South Conference
Milligan (Tenn.) At-large 12 | Appalachian Athletic Conference
Siena Heights (Mich.) At-large 13 | Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference
2018 NAIA Men’s Cross Country National Championships - Individuals
| American Midwest | Schuyler Ogden | William Woods (Mo.) |
| Nathaniel Ogden | William Woods (Mo.) | |
| Tyler Alverson | Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.) | |
| Nicholas Rotich | Park (Mo.) | |
| A.I.I. | Samuel Baumer | Ozarks (Mo.) |
| Shane York | Ozarks (Mo.) | |
| Garrett Pierce | Ozarks (Mo.) | |
| Wesley Moore | Ozarks (Mo.) | |
| Appalachian | Jackson Helfrich | Reinhardt (Ga.) |
| Dax Willette | SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) | |
| Jose Diaz | Reinhardt (Ga.) | |
| Romeo Blackburn | Tennesse Wesleyan | |
| California Pacific | Goody Walowit | Cal Maritime (Calif.) |
| Chicagoland | Mario Scarcelli | St. Xavier (Ill.) |
| Eduardo Martinez | St. Xavier (Ill.) | |
| Emilio Mancha | St. Ambrose (Iowa) | |
| Gabriel Esparza | St. Xavier (Ill.) | |
| Matt Jung | St. Ambrose (Iowa) | |
| Josh Pestka | St. Ambrose (Iowa) | |
| Crossroads | Vincent Kibunja | Goshen (Ind.) |
| Ben Rankin | Grace (Ind.) | |
| Conor Smith | Marian (Ind.) | |
| Justis Paul | Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) | |
| Frontier | Chance Hyatt | Carroll (Mont.) |
| Russell Kujala | Montana Western | |
| Peyton Jones | Providence (Mont.) | |
| John Cooney | Carroll (Mont.) | |
| Golden State | Joseph Tobin | Hope International |
| Caleb Myers | Vanguard (Calif.) | |
| Josh Anderson | Vanguard (Calif.) | |
| Cade Clark | Vanguard (Calif.) | |
| Gulf Coast | Solomon Stevens | Edward Waters (Fla.) |
| Santerrius Booker | Philander Smith (Ark.) | |
| Noel Lyons | Philander Smith (Ark.) | |
| Michael Noltion | Edward Waters (Fla.) | |
| Great Plains | Anthony Patton | Morningside (Iowa) |
| Connor Ritz | Morningside (Iowa) | |
| Dylan Hendricks | Northwestern (Iowa) | |
| Caleb Benzing | Northwestern (Iowa) | |
| Heart of America | Ulysses Orozco | Missouri Valley |
| Demarkous Nunnally | Missouri Valley | |
| Radovan Kemboi | Central Methodist (Mo.) | |
| Duncan Gakuru | Evangel (Mo.) | |
| Shane Burns | Evangel (Mo.) | |
| Greg Flores | Baker (Kan.) | |
| Kansas Collegiate | Bryce Grahn | Southwestern (Kan.) |
| Ian Meek | York (Neb.) | |
| Jesse Freeman | McPherson (Kan.) | |
| Jonathan Jones | Friends (Kan.) | |
| Isaac Sprague | Friends (Kan.) | |
| Kaeori Giron | Kansas Wesleyan | |
| River States | Xavier Stephens | Point Park (Pa.) |
| Justin Spoon | Asbury (Ky.) | |
| Kameron Carpenter | Rio Grande (Ohio) | |
| Kyle Robinson | Brescia (Ky.) | |
| Keshawn Jones | Rio Grande (Ohio) | |
| Drake Dickerson | Ohio Christian | |
| Mid-South | Lucas Huelvan | Cumberlands (Ky.) |
| Nicolas Grandperrin | Cumberlands (Ky.) | |
| Joel Barlow | Cumberland (Tenn.) | |
| Cornelius Kipchumba | Cumberland (Tenn.) | |
| North Star | Jorge Pichardo | Viterbo (Wis.) |
| Riley Roy-Lagasse | Valley City State (N.D.) | |
| Rodney Henry | Dickinson State (N.D.) | |
| Tristen Guillot | Dickinson State (N.D.) | |
| Red River | Alex De La Maza | St. Thomas (Texas) |
| Babiker Babiker | Southwest (N.M.) | |
| Michael Skinner | St. Thomas (Texas) | |
| Juan Gonzales | St. Thomas (Texas) | |
| Sooner | Zackery Hammond | Southwestern Assemblies (Texas) |
| Martin Harding | Wayland Baptist (Texas) | |
| Ben Martin | John Brown (Ark.) | |
| Adrian Cedilla | Southwestern Assemblies (Texas) | |
| Southern States | Cooper Herrington | William Carey (Miss.) |
| Walter Ramsey | Loyola (La.) | |
| Hayden Ricca | Loyola (La.) | |
| Braden Hardy | Blue Mountain (Miss.) | |
| The Sun | George Kimutai | St. Thomas (Fla.) |
| Sean Trainor | Webber (Fla.) | |
| Gabriel Hogan | Ave Maria (Fla.) | |
| Diego Lopez | St. Thomas (Fla.) | |
| Wolverine-Hoosier | Cayce Griffin | Indiana Tech |
| Ryan Exell | Michigan-Dearborn | |
To stream the Men's Cross Country Awards Ceremony, check out our championship pass here!
