FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, November 15, 2009
CONTACT:  Liz Turner Suscha
Associate Director of Championships 317/917-6189

2009 NCAA DIVISION I MEN'S AND WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFIERS ANNOUNCED

INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Committee announced today the team and individual qualifiers for the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals qualified in their respective NCAA regions.

Thirty-one teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the nine regions, for a total of 18 teams. Thirteen additional teams were selected at-large.

Thirty-eight individuals were selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. All individual qualifiers finished in the top 25 in their region.

Indiana State University will host the Championships, November 23, at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course located at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. The men’s race will begin at approximately 12:08 p.m. Eastern time, followed by the women’s race at approximately 12:58 p.m. Both championship races will be broadcast live on Versus Network and streamed online via NCAA.com.

Men’s Automatic Qualifying Teams

Alabama-South Region

Arkansas-South Central Region

Brigham Young-Mountain Region

Colorado-Mountain Region

Florida State-South Region

Georgetown-Mid-Atlantic Region

Iona-Northeast Region

Michigan State-Great Lakes Region

North Carolina State-Southeast Region

Oklahoma-Midwest Region

Oklahoma State-Midwest Region

Portland-West Region

Stanford-West Region

Syracuse-Northeast

Texas-South Central Region

Villanova-Mid-Atlantic Region

William and Mary-Southeast Region

Wisconsin-Great Lakes Region

Men’s At-large Teams

Arizona State

Auburn

Duke

Iowa State

Louisville

Minnesota

New Mexico

Northern Arizona

Ohio State

Oregon

Providence

Virginia

Washington

Women’s Automatic Qualifying Team

Baylor-South Central Region

Colorado-Mountain Region

Duke-Southeast Region

Florida-South Region

Florida State-South Region

Illinois-Midwest Region

Minnesota-Midwest Region

Notre Dame-Great Lakes Region

Ohio State-Great Lakes Region

Oregon-West Region

Princeton-Mid-Atlantic Region

Providence-Northeast Region

SMU-South Central Region

Syracuse-Northeast Region

Texas Tech-Mountain Region

Villanova-Mid-Atlantic Region

Virginia-Southeast Region

Washington-West Region

Women’s At-large Teams

Arizona

Arizona State

Brigham Young

Georgetown

Indiana

Iowa State

Michigan

Michigan State

New Mexico

Penn State

Stanford

UTEP

West Virginia