COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Freshman runner Monica Wanjiku becomes the first woman since 2017 to earn All-American status. The No. 29 Mizzou women’s cross country took 28th at the national championships at Gans Creek on Saturday. The season finale saw the Tigers take to their home course at the first Division 1 NCAA championships ever hosted
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More than 100 volunteers were waking up early Saturday morning to help with Columbia’s first-ever NCAA Division I National Championship.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The cross country season finale is right around the corner. Mizzou is set to host the NCAA championships for the first time in school history on Saturday. The Tiger women qualified for the team race on Nov. 14, after placing fourth at the Midwest region championships. Freshman Monica Wanjiku has been the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In the second postseason race of the season, Mizzou’s cross country teams traveled to Stillwater, Oklahoma, for the Midwest Championships. The No. 27 women finished in fourth place, and the men came home in seventh. Both teams netted a pair of all-region finishers. Freshman Monica Wanjiku crossed the finish line in sixth
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou cross country opened the postseason in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the SEC Championships, where both No. 22 men’s and No. 23 women’s teams finished in fifth place. For the men, it was their second consecutive season slotting in at No. 5, totaling 145 points. 12 points separated the second and fifth teams,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Tigers’ cross country teams concluded the regular season at the Pre-National Invitational this morning at Gans Creek Cross Country Course. The No. 19 Mizzou men took home the silver in the 8k race with a score of 164, beating out conference rivals No. 24 Ole Miss and Texas. Drew Rogers (Senior)
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Cross Country clashed with some of the nation’s best runners at Gans Creek. The Tigers hosted an event-record 87 teams at the seventh-annual Gans Creek Classic on Friday morning, earning eighth place in the Women’s 6K Gold and 12th place in the Men’s 8K Gold races. Both teams toppled nationally-ranked programs
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