Junior Kelli Gaffney became the first runner from the women’s program to reach the NCAA Cross Country Championships since 2018.
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Cal Poly Cross Country sweeps Big West Championships for fourth straight year
Cal Poly Cross Country has swept the Big West Championships for the fourth consecutive year after their performance in Honolulu, Hawai’i on Friday, Oct. 31.
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Cal Poly Cross Country takes home five of six Big West yearly awards
Cal Poly Cross Country program dominated the end-of-season Big West Conference awards on Wednesday as the Mustangs took home five of the six yearly awards. This marks the second straight year they’ve done so while they recorded their third consecutive sweep of the Big West Championships. It was a clean sweep for the men, as […]
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How Cal Poly Cross Country shapes up for NCAA West Regionals
Cal Poly Cross Country will compete against some of the top competition in the country in Colfax, Washington, at the NCAA West Regionals this Friday, Nov. 15. The race, hosted by Washington State, will take place at Colfax Golf Club. The women’s 6K will start at 11 a.m., followed by the men’s 10K at 12 […]
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Cal Poly Cross Country sweeps Big West Championships for third straight year
Cal Poly Cross Country has swept the Big West Championships for the third straight year with its performance at the UC Riverside Ag/Ops Course on Saturday, Nov. 2nd. The Mustangs etched themselves into the conference history books as only one other school in Big West history had ever swept the championships three years in a […]
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Cal Poly Cross Country earns two Big West Cross Country Athletes of the Week
For the first time in five years, Cal Poly has swept the Big West weekly cross country awards behind two stellar performances over the weekend. On Tuesday, junior Tatiana Cornejo was named Women’s Athlete of the Week, while graduate student Davis Bove secured the honors on the men’s side. It’s Cornejo’s first time winning the […]
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Cal Poly Cross Country competes at Bronco Invitational and Pre-Nationals
Cal Poly Cross Country capped off their regular season in two different states on Saturday, Oct. 19. The men raced at the NCAA Pre-Nationals in Madison, Wisconsin, while the women dominated the field en route to a team title at the Bronco Invitational in Sunnyvale, Calif. The women shined at Baylands Park, storming to a […]
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Cal Poly Cross Country earns national votes in latest Coaches Poll
After their performance at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational in Chicago, Ill., Cal Poly Men’s Cross Country received national attention in the Week 3 USTFCCCA National Coaches Poll. The team received two votes from Tuesday’s poll, marking the third straight year they have received national votes during the season. Besides the top 30 nationally ranked […]
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Cal Poly Cross Country competes at Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational
Cal Poly Cross Country program stood up to a strong out-of-conference test with seven nationally ranked teams competing at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational on Friday in Chicago, Illinois. Racing along the shores of Lake Michigan at the Sydney R. Marovitz Golf Course, the Mustang men finished fourth, just behind three ranked teams, while the […]
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‘We wanted that to be our standard’: How Cal Poly Cross Country looks to make noise nationally in 2024
Since the head coaching duo of Ryan Vanhoy and Michelle Chewens came to the West Coast in 2022, they have led the Cal Poly Cross Country program into the upper echelon of the Big West Conference. In 2022, they swept the men’s and women’s team titles at the Big West Championships. Last year, they did […]
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Cal Poly’s Davis Bove earns Third Team Academic All-American Honors
Cal Poly distance star Davis Bove was named to the College Sports Communicators third team for his diligence in the classroom marking the third straight year a Cal Poly Track and Field athlete has earned CSC Academic All-America honors. Bove was one of 46 Division I athletes to make the CSC Academic All-America men’s track […]