LOGAN, Utah – Utah State's men's cross country team travels to Madison, Wisconsin, for the 2024 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Nov. 23, at the University of Wisconsin's Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course.
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MEET INFORMATION
2024 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
Date: Nov. 23, 2024
Start: Women's 6K @ 8:20 a.m.; Men's 10K @ 9:10 a.m. (MT)
Site: Madison, Wisconsin
Venue: Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course
Live Results:
PrimeTime Timing
Streaming:
ESPNU
Course Map:
Course Map
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DIRECTOR OF TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY ARTIE GULDEN
"I am really proud and grateful to coach these guys. They've taken us on a great ride. We are certainly thrilled to have qualified for the NCAA Championships, but the guys aren't satisfied and they're ready to compete well on Saturday. We will talk about a race plan and, if they are able to execute as they have all season, Saturday will be a special end of the season for us."
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AGGIES ON THE NATIONAL STAGE
The USU men will be making their fifth-ever team appearance at the NCAA Championships, having previously qualified in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022. Their highest-ever team placement at the NCAA Championships was an 11th-place finish in 2020 (held in March 2021). In their most recent appearance, the men placed 26th in the 2022 NCAA Championships. Additionally, the USU women have reached the NCAA Championships as a team in 2017 and 2021, finishing in 14th and 28th place, respectively.
Individually, Aggie runners have earned six All-America honors, claimed by Alisa Nicodemus (1992), Trever Ball (2005), Dillon Maggard (2016, 2017), Alyssa Snyder (2017) and
Caleb Garnica (2020). USU's best-ever individual finish was Maggard's 14th-place finish in 2016.
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LAST TIME IN MADISON
Utah State's men's cross country team will be making their second trip of the season to the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course. At the 2024 Wisconsin Pre-Nationals on Oct. 19, the then-No. 30 Aggies defeated eight nationally-ranked squads en route to an 11th-place team finish in the men's A 8K race. Graduate
Camren Todd finished first among Aggie runners, clocking in at 23:10.1 to finish in 17th place.
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AGGIES IN THE POLLS
Utah State men's cross country is currently ranked 23rd in the most recent NCAA DI Cross Country National Coaches' Poll. The men have been ranked as high as No. 19 nationally this season, their highest national ranking since 2021.
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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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YOUTH MOVEMENT
Five Aggies claimed Mountain West Men's Freshman of the Week honors this season. Freshman
Jedidiah Megargel won the first weekly honors following his seventh-place finish in the Utah State Alumni Challenge on Aug. 31. Two weeks later, freshman
Luke Stockett claimed the award thanks to a 21st-place finish in the BYU Autumn Classic on Sept. 13. Next, freshman
Michael Moffat won the award following his seventh-place finish at the UC Riverside Invitational on Sept. 21. After him, freshman
Joshua McKee claimed the honors after a 14th-place finish at the Paul Short Run on Oct. 5. Finally, 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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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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LAST MEET
Utah State's men's cross country team finished in fourth place at the 2024 NCAA Cross Country Mountain Regional in Reno, Nevada, on Nov. 15, tied for their highest-ever regional finish. Graduate
Camren Todd earned all-region honors with his 14th-place finish in the men's 10K race, clocking in at 29:39.3. The USU women concluded their season with a ninth-place team finish in the 6K race. They were led by senior
Emma Thornley, who also earned all-region honors with a 22nd-place time of 20:17.0.
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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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