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Official Qualifiers for 2014 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships Announced - USTFCCCAPublished by
By Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA November 15, 2014
INDIANAPOLIS – Team and individual qualifiers for the men’s and women’s 2014 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships – set for November 22 in Terre Haute, Indiana – were officially announced by the NCAA Saturday afternoon. OFFICIAL NCAA RELEASES: Men | Women The team list includes the 18 automatic team qualifiers for each gender that finished first or second at Friday’s Regional Championships, plus an additional 13 teams for each gender that were selected for at-large berths. For both genders, the top four individuals in each region who were not members of a qualifying team and finished in the top 25 individually earned berths into the NCAA Championships. An additional two individuals per gender were selected on an at-large basis for a total of 38 per gender. Indiana State will host the championships Nov. 22 at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center, located in Terre Haute, Indiana. The women’s race will begin at Noon ET, followed by the men’s race at approximately 1 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on NCAA.com.
Men’s Notes: Wisconsin is making its nation-best 54th total team appearance and 43rd consecutive team appearance – the longest active streak in the nation … Other consecutive appearance streaks of note: Colorado (23); Stanford (21); BYU (16) … First-ever appearance in program history for either gender by Ole Miss, and first appearance for Furman since 1970 … UTEP is making its first appearance since 2007. This is just the fourth time making NCAAs as a team since a streak of nine appearances in a row ended in 1982 (1992, 2005, 2007) … Southern Utah is making its second appearance in program history (1999) … North Carolina is in the field for the second year in a row after having not qualified as a team since 1991 … Eastern Kentucky is in the field for the fourth year in a row after having never qualified as a team prior to 2011. Women’s Notes: Stanford extended its nation-best active streak of consecutive NCAA Championships appearances to 22 in a row … Other consecutive appearances streaks of note: Michigan State (14), Michigan (13), Georgetown (10) … BYU and NC State will make their all-time best 28th total NCAA Championships appearance … Boise State’s women are in the field for the first time in program history … making their second-ever appearances in the field are Iona (2006), Ohio State (2009) and Virginia Tech (2006) … Toledo made the field for the fourth time in the past five years after having never qualified as a team prior to 2010 … Likewise, Vanderbilt made NCAAs for the fourth year in a row after having never qualified as a team prior to 2011 … More teams are back after extended absences (last year qualified): Baylor (2009), North Carolina (2010), NC State (2011), UCLA (2004) … Dartmouth is back in the field for a second year in a row after having previously not made the field since 2001
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