Northern Arizona finished runner-up in both men's and women's races - lost women's race by ONE point. Still NAU Women's best finish ever.

Women's Top 10:

North Carolina State
Northern Arizona
Oklahoma State
Notre Dame
Florida
Tennessee
Alabama
Washington
Arkansas
Oregon


Men's Top 10:
Oklahoma State
Northern Arizona
BYU
Arkansas
Iowa State
North Carolina
Texas
Stanford
Syracuse
Wisconsin

NAU's Men now have 6 Titles and 2 runner-ups over the last 8 years

SEC has been putting a lot of money into their women's programs.

One of the interesting things to me is how Oregon and Colorado have become sort of non-factors. I have pretty deep distance roots and have raced many times in Eugene. When I was coming up, Eugene was the distance center of the universe. In some ways it still is, but not as to NCAA racing.

(11-20-2023 05:48 PM)DuncanMcShane Wrote:  One of the interesting things to me is how Oregon and Colorado have become sort of non-factors. I have pretty deep distance roots and have raced many times in Eugene. When I was coming up, Eugene was the distance center of the universe. In some ways it still is, but not as to NCAA racing.

With Colorado, it was the elevation. NAU has taken that away to a degree with the higher elevation, better weather, and dedicated high-altitude training facilities (across many sports where altitude training helps)

Oregon - even though Phil Knight's roots are in running, seems he is more interested in the marquee sports now.

In its second season of full D1 eligibility, California Baptist was one of a small number of schools with both men’s and women’s programs in the top 20.

Always nice to see newer schools having success and proving they are in D1 to compete.