LOGAN, Utah – Utah State's men's and women's cross country teams travel to Colorado Springs, Colorado, for the 2024 Mountain West Cross Country Championships on Friday, November 1, at Eisenhower Golf Course on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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MEET INFORMATION 
 
2024 Mountain West Cross Country Championships
Date: Nov. 1, 2024 
Start: Women's 6K @ 10 a.m.; Men's 8K @ 10:45 a.m. (MT) 
Site: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Venue: Eisenhower Golf Course
Live Results: Record Timing
Course Map: Course Map
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DIRECTOR OF TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY ARTIE GULDEN 
"The conference meet is always an exciting competition. There are some great teams in our conference but our teams are looking to be very competitive and get in the mix. Both of our teams have some athletes looking to vie for all-conference recognition. We will preview the course today and then make a race plan that we think will suit the team well."
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AGGIES IN THE POLLS
Utah State men's cross country jumped up this week's NCAA DI Cross Country National Coaches' Poll, rising from No. 30 to No. 19. This is the men's highest national ranking since 2021. The Aggie men are also ranked No. 4 in the Mountain Region rankings, while the women are ranked No. 7 regionally.
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HOW SWEEP IT IS
Aggie runners swept the Mountain West's weekly awards on October 15, with freshman Joshua Armstrong winning Men's Athlete and Freshman of the Week, senior Sammi Lee winning Women's Athlete of the Week, and freshman Ava Trimble winning Women's Freshman of the Week. It was the first time that any school had claimed all four cross country awards since the conference began awarding Freshman of the Week honors in 2021. These individual honors came after Utah State swept the team titles at the USU-hosted Steve T. Reeder Memorial Invitational on October 11.
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YOUTH MOVEMENT
Five Aggies claimed Mountain West Men's Freshman of the Week honors this season. Freshman Jedidiah Megargel won the weekly honors following his seventh-place finish in the Utah State Alumni Challenge on August 31, freshman Luke Stockett claimed the award thanks to a 21st-place finish in the BYU Autumn Classic on September 13, freshman Michael Moffat won the award following his seventh-place finish at the UC Riverside Invitational on September 21, freshman Joshua McKee claimed the honors after a 14th-place finish at the Paul Short Run on October 5, and freshman Joshua Armstrong claimed the Freshman and Athlete of the Week honors with his third-place finish at the Steve T. Reeder Memorial Invitational on October 11. Utah State is the first cross country program in Mountain West history to claim a given individual honor five consecutive times, and the first Mountain West program in any sport to have five different athletes claim the same honor in consecutive weeks.
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WE LIKE IKE
Utah State's cross country programs are not the first Aggie team to compete at Eisenhower Golf Course this fall. The USU men's golf team excelled at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational at this course from September 21-23, placing second out of 22 teams. This will be the second time that Eisenhower Golf Course hosts the Mountain West Championships. Utah State's women's and men's teams finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in 2013, the Aggies' first season in the Mountain West.
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AGGIES AT THE MOUNTAIN WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS
Utah State's men's cross country team will be looking to win its second-ever Mountain West championship. The Aggies won the team title in 2019, running on their home course. Two Aggie men have won individual titles, with Dallin Farnsworth taking home the crown in 2019 and Caleb Garnica winning the title in 2020. The Aggie women's highest team finish came in 2021, placing second behind New Mexico, while their highest-ever individual finish belongs to senior Emma Thornley, who finished in fourth place in 2023.
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LAST WEEK 
Utah State's cross country teams closed out the regular season last Thursday at the Utah Open in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Aggie women finished first overall in the 5K race out of six teams, paced by junior Elizabeth Phillips' third-place finishing time of 19:00.84. USU's individual men's runners were led by senior Caleb Armstrong's time of 26:19.36, good for eighth place in the 8K.
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FOLLOW ALONG 
Fans can follow the Utah State cross country programs at twitter.com/USUTF_XC, on Facebook at USUTrack and on Instagram at instagram.com/USUTF_XC. Aggies fans can also follow the Utah State athletic program at twitter.com/USUAthletics or on Facebook at Utah State University Athletics.  
  
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