{"id":12277,"date":"2025-09-30T12:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:51:11","slug":"mizzou-sets-the-pace-for-cross-country-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/mizzou-sets-the-pace-for-cross-country-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou sets the pace for cross country excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Mizzou<\/a>
Mizzou Men\u2019s Cross Country team at the Gans Creek Classic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Mizzou was proud to host the annual Gans Creek Classic<\/a> at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course<\/a>. Now in its seventh year, the meet continues to position Columbia as a premier destination for cross country competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 1,500 runners participated across six races in high school and collegiate divisions. The event drew nearly 90 squads from around the country, including more than 20 top-ranked university and college teams, as well as last year\u2019s NCAA champions and runners-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among so many world-class competitors, the Mizzou Women\u2019s team delivered a strong eighth-place finish in the 5,000-meter race, while the Men\u2019s team secured twelfth place in the 8,000-meter race. Both placed ahead of many highly ranked teams. Mizzou freshman Monica Wanjiku<\/a> finished eleventh overall, one of the top showings among all freshmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cross<\/a>
Cross Country Assistant Coach Kyle Levermore and President Choi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers\u2019 season continues on October 16 with the Pre-National Invitational, also held at Gans Creek. Then in November, we welcome the best in the nation as we host the 2025 NCAA Cross Country National Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to thank Cross Country Head Coach Brett Halter<\/a> for the invitation to attend and congratulate all our student-athletes on their hard work and success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Mizzou was proud to host the Gans Creek Classic at our own Gans Creek Cross Country Course. Now in its seventh year, the meet continues to position Columbia and Mizzou as a premier destination for cross country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}