Ashland University's men's cross country team is the No. 25-ranked team in NCAA Division II.
The Eagle men should be much higher than that following Saturday (Oct. 11) morning's results at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational – as they won the 19-team 8K race as a squad, and five Eagles finished in the top eight individually.
Ashland's team score was 20, well ahead of the second-place host Tartans (95 points) and third-place West Virginia Wesleyan (130).
Senior
Nate Slater earned Saturday's individual title in the men's race, PRing when crossing the finish line in 24:24.5. Sophomore
Wes Taylor finished right behind Slater in second in 24:31.7.
Senior
Braeden Geist came in fourth in 24:56.7, redshirt freshman
Samuel Thomas was fifth with a PR time of 25:00.5, and senior
Michael Snopik placed eighth with his own PR mark of 25:07.1.
In the women's 5K race, the Eagles finished second in the 19-team field with 86 team points – trailing only champion Edinboro (54). Slippery Rock finished third with 92 team points.
Freshman
Ava Parrett turned in an early PR time of 17:53.5 in finishing in 14
th place. Junior
Amandine Binet placed 18
th with a PR time of 18:07.4, and junior
Molly Coleman was 21
st in a PR of 18:09.7.
Yet another junior,
Lauren Bero, took 25
th with her PR mark of 18:21.4, while graduate
Hope Sievert was 28
th in a near-two-minute PR of 18:25.0.
NEXT UP
The 2025 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championships in Midland, Mich., on Oct. 25.
