INDIANAPOLIS (November 16, 2024) – The University of Wyoming men's cross country program received an at-large bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, announced by the NCAA on Saturday. This will be only the seventh time the Cowboys run at the championship as a team and their first time back since 2018 when they finished 12th.

The Cowboys finished sixth at the NCAA Mountain Regional on Friday with 185 points. Junior Jacob White was the first to cross the line for Wyoming with a time of 29:43.2 for 19th overall. The scoring five finished 19-32-37-43-54 with two others coming in 68th and 73rd.

Six teams, BYU, Colorado, New Mexico, Northern Arizona, Utah State and Wyoming were all selected from the Mountain region to run at the championships. Only the Mountain and Southeast regions had six teams selected. The West region had four teams, the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest had three teams each while the Northeast, South and South Central regions only had two.

Cowboys will run in the 10k at 9:10 a.m. MT on Saturday, Nov. 23, in Madison, Wis. The event will be streamed on ESPNU and the ESPN app starting at 7:30 a.m. MT.

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