The Thunder cross country team ran in their final regular season meet at the Last Chance Meet hosted by Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri. This would be the last chance for NCCAA individual runners or teams to qualify for the National Championships. Not only would sophomore, Grace Black qualify for the NCCAA National Championships, she would also set a PR 5k time of 23:55 and win the race. Black was only three second off from qualifying two weeks ago, but ended up breaking through and qualifying by more than 30 seconds. Freshmen, Emily Forshee and Alyssa Fowles would also set PR 5k times with 26:25 and 26:29 times, respectively. The men's team would race against the Ozark Christian College Ambassadors. They would win the head-to-head race, 24 points to 31 points. Freshman, Elijah Wasson would finish second and run a PR 8k time of 32:43. Freshman, Donnie Mueller would also set a PR with an 8k time of 47:59.

The Thunder men's cross country team and Black will race at the NCCAA Cross Country National Championships at the Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course in Joplin, Missouri on November 13th. Black will run at 9:45AM and the men will run at 11:45AM.

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