Cross Country Primed For NCAA Southeast Regional Championships
Duke enters Friday’s races with women ranked sixth in the region and both teams coming off top-five ACC finishes.
- On Friday, Nov. 13, collegiate teams competed at the Milliken Research Park in Spartanburg, S.C., for the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships. The women's 6k race started at 10 a.m., followed by the men's 10k at 11 a.m.
- Qualifying for the NCAA Championships requires top performances: the top two teams in each of the nine regionals automatically qualify. The NCAA DI Cross Country Subcommittee then selects 14 at-large teams to fill the 32-team field.
- Freshman Caden Leonard led North Carolina's men with a ninth-place finish in the 10k, earning All-Region honors. Katelyn Rupe paced the women, finishing 35th in a field of 269 competitors with a time of 20:14.0.
- Duke's men, led by graduate student Finlay Ross-Davie, competed Friday seeking to build on ACC Championship momentum. The UNCG men's cross country team also participated in the 10k at the Roger Milliken Center.
- The Tar Heels and other qualifying teams now await the 2026 NCAA Cross Country Selection Show on Saturday. Successful programs will then travel to Terre Haute, Indiana, for the NCAA Championships scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 21.
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Norse Cross Country wraps up season at NCAA Southeast Regional
SPARTANBURG, SC – Northern Kentucky University Norse men's and women's cross country wrapped up its 2026 campaign Friday at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional, hosted by the University of South Carolina Upstate at Milliken Research Park. The Norse women finished in 30th place out of 44 total programs, 38 of them running the five qualified finishers or more. The NKU men did not record a team score, as only four runners competed.
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