Battlin’ Bears Cross Country Compete in the NAIA National Championship Meet Friday

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Battlin’ Bears Cross Country Compete in the NAIA National Championship Meet Friday

11/17/2022 11:56:00 AM

Brandon Stinson | Sports Information & Media Coordinator

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 17, 2022- Rocky Mountain College Cross Country takes on the NAIA National Championship Meet on Friday in Tallahassee, Florida. The Rocky women will compete as a team after being selected as an At-Large bid for the meet, while Jackson Wilson qualified as an individual to compete in the men's race.

The races will be held in Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee. The day will kick off with the Men's 8K race starting at 8:30am (ET; 6:30am MT). Junior Jackson Wilson will be the lone Battlin' Bear competing, after qualifying as an individual by winning the Frontier Conference Championship for the second season in a row. Wilson finished 62nd out of 330 runners in last year's race held in Vancouver, Washington, finishing the 8K race in 26:19.6. Wilson won this year's Frontier Conference in 25:30.8, while he also tied a personal best earlier this season in the Yellowjacket/Battlin' Bears Open, finishing in 24:44.2.

The Women's 5K race will follow at 9:30am (ET; 7:30am MT), also held at Apalachee Regional Park. The Battlin' Bears will compete as a team after finishing in second at the Frontier Conference Championship and being selected as an At-Large bid. Rocky will be led by last year's runner-up at this race, senior Sydney Little Light. Little Light finished in second place in last year's NAIA National Cross Country Championship held in Vancouver, Washington, by finishing the 5K race in 18:16.8, only two seconds behind the champion Alyssa Bearzi from Milligan University. Little Light won the Frontier Conference title this season after finishing her 5K in 18:11.4 and ran a personal best at the Yellowjacket/Battlin' Bears open, running a 16:58.1.

The Battlin' Bears will also be led by All-Conference performer, freshman Jayden Woodland as she and the rest of the Battlin' Bears, besides Little Light, will be competing in their first NAIA National Championship Meet.

Both races will be broadcast by the NAIA and can be watched for a fee HERE, while live results will be sent HERE as they happen.

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