LOGAN, Utah – Utah State's men's and women's cross country teams travel to Reno, Nevada, for the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Mountain Regional on Friday, Nov. 15, at Washoe County Golf Course.
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MEET INFORMATION 
 
2024 NCAA Cross Country Mountain Regional
Date: Nov. 15, 2024 
Start: Women's 6K @ 12 p.m.; Men's 10K @ 1 p.m. (MT) 
Site: Reno, Nevada
Venue: Washoe County Golf Course
Live Results: Record Timing
Streaming: Mountain West Network
Course Map: Course Map
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DIRECTOR OF TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY ARTIE GULDEN 
"Both teams are excited for the regional meet tomorrow. It's the determining factor of who qualifies for the NCAA Championships, which has been our goal all season. I am confident both teams will leave everything on the course tomorrow, and we look forward to seeing where that leaves us with regards to the NCAAs."
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AGGIES IN THE POLLS
Utah State men's cross country is currently ranked eighth in the most recent NCAA DI Cross Country Mountain Regional Rankings, while the women are ranked 11th. The Aggie women's team has been featured in every regional ranking since 2012, while the men have been ranked in every regional poll since 2016. The USU men have been ranked as high as No. 19 nationally this season, their highest national ranking since 2021.
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HOW SWEEP IT IS
Aggie runners swept the Mountain West's weekly awards on Oct. 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 Oct. 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 Aug. 31, freshman Luke Stockett claimed the award thanks to a 21st-place finish in the BYU Autumn Classic on Sept. 13, freshman Michael Moffat won the award following his seventh-place finish at the UC Riverside Invitational on Sept. 21, freshman Joshua McKee claimed the honors after a 14th-place finish at the Paul Short Run on Oct. 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 Oct. 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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FAMILY MATTERS
Junior Logan Garnica won second-team all-conference honors at the 2024 Mountain West Championships on Nov. 1, finishing 13th overall in the men's 8K. His older brother, Caleb, collected all-conference honors each year from 2019-2021, including a first-overall finish in 2020. Logan and Caleb are the first set of Aggie siblings to each earn all-conference honors since football standouts Zach and Nick Vigil each earned two all-conference awards from 2013-2015.
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AGGIES AT THE MOUNTAIN REGIONAL
Utah State's cross country teams will be looking to earn an automatic berth to the NCAA Championships, awarded to the top-two finishing teams, for the first time in program history. The Aggie women's highest-ever placement at the NCAA Regional was a third-place finish in 2004, while the men's high-water mark was a fourth-place finish in 2019. Last year in Lubbock, Texas, the USU women placed eighth out of 20 teams while the men took 10th place out of 17 schools.
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LAST MEET 
Utah State's cross country teams each finished in sixth place at the Mountain West Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 1. Junior Logan Garnica earned second-team all-conference honors with his 13th-place finish in the men's 8K race, clocking in at 24:47.5. The USU women were led by sophomore Brianne Smith's time of 21:26.2, good for 21st place in the 6K race.
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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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