{"id":12437,"date":"2025-11-25T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:34:33","slug":"mizzou-welcomes-ncaa-cross-country-national-championships-to-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/11\/25\/mizzou-welcomes-ncaa-cross-country-national-championships-to-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou welcomes NCAA Cross Country National Championships to Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1665\" height=\"1248\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mizzou women\u2019s cross country team (center) competed in the national championships.\" class=\"wp-image-12447\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2.jpg 1665w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals82-edited-2-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1665px) 100vw, 1665px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mizzou women\u2019s cross country team (center) competed in the national championships.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This past weekend, we proudly hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/feature\/25_XC_NationalChampionship_Info\">2025 NCAA Cross Country National Championships<\/a> at Gans Creek Cross Country Course for the first time in Mizzou history. More than 6,000 fans packed the course to cheer on more than 500 student-athletes from nearly 50 universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mizzou women\u2019s team competed for a national title for the first time since 2016. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2025\/11\/22\/cross-country-wanjiku-becomes-second-freshman-in-program-history-to-earn-ncaa-all-america-honors\">Monica Wanjiku finished 35<sup>th<\/sup> overall<\/a>, earning All-American honors. The Tigers placed 28<sup>th<\/sup> in a strong field with some of the nation\u2019s most elite competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Fans at Gans Creek Cross Country Course.\" class=\"wp-image-12439\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/20251122_XC_Nationals103.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve hosted several other major meets during the 2025 season, including <a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/mizzou-sets-the-pace-for-cross-country-excellence\/\">the Gans Creek Classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our cross-country facility is among the best in the country. Hosting premier tournaments elevates Mizzou Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/cross-country-event-expected-to-bring-1-2-million-of-revenue-to-city\/article_e1e66f09-f8c4-406e-86f2-6396a64c50d8.html\">and draws thousands of visitors<\/a> who experience the best of the Columbia community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to welcoming even more nationally recognized events to Gans Creek in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, we proudly hosted the 2025 NCAA Cross Country National Championships at Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia for the first time in Mizzou history.<\/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-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","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=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12454,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions\/12454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}