By Debajo Dos
November 8, 2018
After months of going through rosters, personal bests and results, it’s time for me to share with the world who I think will be qualifying for the 2018 NCAA Cross Country National Championships.
The NCAA Division I Championships will be hosted by Wisconsin on Nov. 17 at Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, Wisconsin.
Here are the teams that I think will make it to Madison:
Air Force
Arkansas
Boise State
BYU
Colorado
Colorado State
Eastern Kentucky
Furman
Georgetown
Indiana
Iona
Iowa State
Michigan
North Carolina St.
North Florida
Northern Arizona
Notre Dame
Oklahoma State
Ole Miss
Oregon
Portland
Princeton
Purdue
Stanford
Syracuse
Texas
UCLA
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
And now for the individuals and what region they will be coming out of:
Southeast
Lawrence Kipkoech- Campbell (2)
Amon Kemboi- Campbell (3)
Peter Seufer- Va Tech (4)
Zachary Facioni- Wake Forest (6)
Great Lakes
Justine Kiprotich- Michigan State (7)
Josh Park- Ohio (16)
Aaron Bienenfeld- Cincinnati (19)
Euan Makepeace- Butler (20)
South
Alfred Chelanga- Alabama (1)
Caleb Pottorff- Florida State (5)
Jacob McLeod- Belmont (6)
Zach Long- Tennessee (8)
South Central
Emmanuel Rotich- Tulane (4)
Jamie Crowe- Lamar (7)
Abraham Chirchir- UT- Rio Grande Valley (8)
Justin Domangue- UT- Arlington (10)
Mountain
Christian Ricketts- Southern Utah (22)
Aidan Reed- Southern Utah (24)
Mid-Atlantic
Colin Abert- Penn State (1)
Casey Comber- Villanova (2)
Andrew Marston- Villanova (5)
Kristian Holm Jensen- Temple (9)
West
Chris Olley- San Francisco (4)
Chandler Teigen- Washington State (12)
James Mwaura- Gonzaga (17)
Carlos Villareal- Arizona (19)
Midwest
George Kusche- Nebraska (5)
Alec Basten- Minnesota (9)
Scott Beattie- Tulsa (10)
Michael Melgares- Kansas (12)
Northeast
Alex Masai- Hofstra (6)
Meshack Kipchirchir- Hofstra (8)
Hugo Milner- Harvard (9)
Kieran Tuntivate- Harvard (10)
And lastly, here are the at-large individuals who I think secure berths:
Nadeel Wildschutt- Coastal Carolina (Southeast—8th)
Azaria Kirwa- Liberty (Southeast—9th)
Ben Young- Kentucky (Southeast—10th)
Sean Burke- Boston College (Northeast—11th)
Debajo Dos