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Cross country to face off against big competition

September 25, 2015 by Savanah Silva

Saturday morning will be a true test for the ACU cross country program as both men and women's teams will face off against schools from the SEC and Big 12. The team will travel to College Station where they will compete in the A&M Invitational. The men's race will kick off first where they will run an 8k race at 8:15 followed by the women ... [Read More…]

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Hackett, cross country take first at Sherrod Park

September 21, 2015 by Savanah Silva

Men's Results | Women's Results | PICTURES The ACU women's cross country team showed why they're ranked at the top of the Southland Conference when they won the ACU Wildcat Cross Country Invitational on Friday, Sept. 18. Running at Sherrod Park, ACU was up against stiff competition with the Texas Tech Red Raiders competing against them. ... [Read More…]

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Cross Country host Tech for final home meet of the season

September 17, 2015 by Savanah Silva

Sherrod Park will play host to the ACU cross country team's final home meet of the season Friday. Four schools, including Texas Tech, will race at the first home meet for the Wildcats since 2011. Angelo State, South Plains and West Texas College will also be there to compete. ACU is coming off of a bye-week where both men and women's teams hit ... [Read More…]

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Cross-country makes statement at first meet

September 6, 2015 by Savanah Silva

The women's cross-country team finished with a perfect score Friday evening taking the top spot at McMurry's Bill Libby invitational. The men's team would take fifth in a field of nine teams. On the women's side, the Wildcats took the top seven places, scoring a flawless 15 points. Runner-up Angelo State had 75 points and third place finishers, ... [Read More…]

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Cross Country starts season with high hopes

September 3, 2015 by Savanah Silva

Friday signifies more than the end of the week for the ACU cross-country teams. Both the men's and women's teams begin their season at the Bill Libby Invitational hosted by McMurry University in Abilene. With distance running being a dominant force for ACU in the past, assistant coach, Ray Walker has big goals for his teams. "I hope this meet ... [Read More…]

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Munoz has top five finish at conference championships

November 4, 2014 by Victoria Rodriguez

The cross country team competed early Monday morning at the Southland Conference Championships in Natchitoches, Louisiana, hosted by Northwestern University. The women's team placed fifth overall with 122 points, falling just below McNeese State who also finished with 122 points but had more runners place higher than ACU. The team was led by ... [Read More…]

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Cross Country has high expectations for conference championships

October 14, 2014 by Hannah Null

The cross country teams have finished their regular season meets and will attend the Southland Conference Championships Nov. 1. The women's team has only had one finish lower than third place the entire season, when the team took 11th place at the Chile Pepper Festival on Oct. 4. They took first place in their first meet of the season, the West ... [Read More…]

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Wildcats have a strong season finish

October 14, 2014 by Hannah Null

Cross country placed first and fourth in the Incarnate Word Invitational last weekend. The women's team came in first with 33 points, finishing in front of Southland Conference rivals Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Incarnate Word. The conditions were not ideal as rain slowed the runners down, but that didn't stop Diana Garcia-Munoz or ... [Read More…]

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Wildcats head to last meet before conference championships

October 7, 2014 by Hannah Null

The Wildcat cross country team will head to San Antonio Saturday for the Incarnate Word Invitational. The cross country team will compete against conference rival Incarnate Word along with many other teams. With an 11th place finish last weekend, the women's team is expecting another successful outcome this weekend. "After what happened to ... [Read More…]

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ACU cross country teams PR at Chile Pepper Festival

October 7, 2014 by Victoria Rodriguez

The ACU cross country teams found plenty of PR times and a third place finish among Southland Conference schools at last week's Chile Pepper Festival. Both the men and women's teams traveled to Fayetteville, Arkansas to compete in the off-road course last Saturday. The ACU teams ran against more than 375 runners in the female race and 430 in the ... [Read More…]

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