Friday, November 13
Sacramento, Calif.
W-9 a.m./M-10 a.m.
Gonzaga University
at
NCAA West Regional Championships
11/12/2026 2:41:00 PM | Cross Country
SACRAMENTO, Calif.- Gonzaga Cross Country heads to the NCAA West Regional Championship on Friday with a lot of momentum after capturing the Men's Pac-12 Cross Country Championship. The Zags will compete in the women's 6k and men's 10k championship with the hopes of securing a bid to the NCAA Cross Country National Championship with a good result.Â
The Gonzaga men's cross country team enters as the fifth ranked team in the West, moving up five spot in the most recent USTFCCCA regional poll after winning the Pac-12 Championship. Led by Pac-12 Cross Country Coach of the Year Pat Tyson, the Zags had all five scoring runners named to an All-Conference team while finishing with 39 points.
Five Zags have ran times that in the top 10 fastest 8ks in program history in the course of this season, with Logan Law setting a new program record for the Zags earlier in the season with a 22:54 time at the Lakefront Invite. Ryan Mitchell, Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Dylan Rowell, and Logan Schwartz all ran under 23:30 at Lakefront while setting the fifth through seventh fastest times in program history. Dylan Weniger ran the 10th fastest time in program history while leading the Zags with a fourth overall individual finish at the Pac-12 championship in a personal best 23:35 finish.Â
Gonzaga women's cross country is ranked eighth in the West, led by freshman Audrey Orme and Sloan Dickson. Orme was named to First Team All Pac-12 after a seventh place individual finish, while Dickson was named to the Second Team All Pac-12 with a ninth place finish. Both freshman have already established themselves in the program record books, with Orme running the fifth fastest 6k in program history with a 19:48 finish at Lakefront Invite. Dickson had the seventh fastest 6k time in program history, running a 19:56 time at the same meet.Â
The results from Friday's meet will dictate if the Zags move on to the NCAA Cross Country National Championship. The top two teams in every NCAA region automatically get a bid to the national championship, with the remaining fourteen at-large bids are decided based on how many qualifying teams a program has beaten in previous head to head races throughout in the season. Each region will also send the four individual runners with the fastest personal time from Friday that were not part of a team that got a bid. The official at-large bids will be announced at the NCAA Selection Show on Saturday.
The women's 6k kicks off at 9 a.m., with the men's 10k set to start at 10 a.m. Live results are available on GoZags.com
The Gonzaga men's cross country team enters as the fifth ranked team in the West, moving up five spot in the most recent USTFCCCA regional poll after winning the Pac-12 Championship. Led by Pac-12 Cross Country Coach of the Year Pat Tyson, the Zags had all five scoring runners named to an All-Conference team while finishing with 39 points.
Five Zags have ran times that in the top 10 fastest 8ks in program history in the course of this season, with Logan Law setting a new program record for the Zags earlier in the season with a 22:54 time at the Lakefront Invite. Ryan Mitchell, Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Dylan Rowell, and Logan Schwartz all ran under 23:30 at Lakefront while setting the fifth through seventh fastest times in program history. Dylan Weniger ran the 10th fastest time in program history while leading the Zags with a fourth overall individual finish at the Pac-12 championship in a personal best 23:35 finish.Â
Gonzaga women's cross country is ranked eighth in the West, led by freshman Audrey Orme and Sloan Dickson. Orme was named to First Team All Pac-12 after a seventh place individual finish, while Dickson was named to the Second Team All Pac-12 with a ninth place finish. Both freshman have already established themselves in the program record books, with Orme running the fifth fastest 6k in program history with a 19:48 finish at Lakefront Invite. Dickson had the seventh fastest 6k time in program history, running a 19:56 time at the same meet.Â
The results from Friday's meet will dictate if the Zags move on to the NCAA Cross Country National Championship. The top two teams in every NCAA region automatically get a bid to the national championship, with the remaining fourteen at-large bids are decided based on how many qualifying teams a program has beaten in previous head to head races throughout in the season. Each region will also send the four individual runners with the fastest personal time from Friday that were not part of a team that got a bid. The official at-large bids will be announced at the NCAA Selection Show on Saturday.
The women's 6k kicks off at 9 a.m., with the men's 10k set to start at 10 a.m. Live results are available on GoZags.com
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