2018 Bradley Cross Country

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Bradley men's cross county won the team title at the Bradley Intercollegiate this afternoon, and Bradley junior Will Anderson finished with the best time to win the men's individual title-

https://bradleybraves.com/news/2018/9/14/mens-cross-country-mens-team-title-two-individual-champs-at-intercollegiate.aspx

Men's results-

https://bradleybraves.com/documents/2018/9/14//Mens_Results.pdf

That makes 2 straight team titles, as Bradley also won the Western Illinois Early Bird Invite two weeks ago.

https://bradleybraves.com/news/2018/8/31/mens-cross-country-bradley-men-claim-title-at-season-opener.aspx

The Bradley women's cross country team were edged out by Northern Iowa, and finished a close 2nd out of the 6 teams competing. However, Bradley junior Gabby Juarez won the women's individual title.

Women's results-

https://bradleybraves.com/documents/2018/9/14//Womens_Results.pdf

This was Bradley's second straight 2nd place finish, as they also finished 2nd at the Western Illinois Early Bird Invite two weeks ago.

https://bradleybraves.com/news/2018/8/31/mens-cross-country-bradley-men-claim-title-at-season-opener.aspx

Congratulations Braves!

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Bradley Cross Country head coach Darren Gauson is named
Midwest Region Coach of the Year

https://bradleybraves.com/news/2018/11/13/mens-cross-country-darren-gauson-named-midwest-mens-coach-of-the-year.aspx

https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1062143177505697794

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The Women's NCAA Championship has just completed - unfortunately Bradley did not have any women qualifiers...
Colorado finished 1st as a team, then New Mexico, Oregon, Michigan and Stanford. The top true midmajor was Columbia at 18th


The Men's 10K National Championship is about to start (at 11:45am)
Live, real time standings, positions and times can be followed right here

https://live.recordtiming.com/meets/1508/xc-scoreboard

https://www.ncaa.com/di-mens-and-womens-cross-country-results

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the race is off...and at the 2K split, Bradley's top runner Michael Ward is 73rd at 5:49.7, just six seconds separating him from the leader!!!

Currently the top 120 runners are all within 10 seconds of the lead

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at the 4K split, Bradley's top runner Michael Ward is 19 seconds off the pace
...Bradley's team score currently would place them 27th...
we need to have a very strong finish!!!

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we need a huge finish in the final 2K

currently after 8K, Ward is in 106th place, but almost a minute off the leader pace --
as a team still sitting in 27th
GO Braves

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Final....

The overall medalist is Wisconsin's Morgan McDonald running on his home course - finishing in 29:08.22

Michael Ward finishes 106th with 30:40.28
Bradley's Haran Dunderdale moves up 30 spots between the 8K split and the 10K finish but still finishes 115th with 30:47.40

Jake Hoffert 156th at 31:05.99
William Anderson 158th, 31:07.65
Luke Hoffert 185th, 31:25.46
Jack Franklin 239th, 32:42.52
Alec Danner 247th, 33:19.80

Bradley finishes 24th place in the Team Standings

24th Place NATIONALLY !! Congrats to Bradley!!