MONMOUTH, Ore. — The No. 10-ranked Stanislaus State women's cross country team placed fifth with 182 points at the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships on Saturday morning at Ash Creek Preserve in Monmouth, Oregon. The Warriors finished behind No. 9 Chico State, Cal Poly Pomona, No. 20 Western Washington, and No. 13 Biola in a deep, nationally stacked 28-team field.
Annie Wild led Stan State with a seventh-place finish in 20:44.2 to earn USTFCCCA All-West Region honors, awarded to the top 25 individual finishers.
Jacqueline Sanchez-Silva placed 30th (21:21.0), followed by Isabela Moreno (33rd, 21:22.5),
Stevie Holguin (53rd, 21:44.7), and
Nina Furtado (61st, 21:49.6) to complete the team's scoring five.
Crystal Hernandez (68th, 21:53.4) and freshman
Izzy Soto (94th, 22:22.8) rounded out the lineup.
Chico State (No. 9) captured the team title with 40 points, followed by Cal Poly Pomona (86) and Western Washington (No. 20) (140), which earned the region's three automatic team berths to the NCAA Division II National Championships. Individually, Biola's Bethany Mapes (20:29.4) and Point Loma's Madeline Reeves (20:32.9) were the top two finishers not on qualifying teams to secure automatic individual bids, joined by Simon Fraser's Rachael Watkins (20:34.1) for placing in the top five overall.
The top three teams from each NCAA Division II regional meet automatically qualify for the national championship. For individual qualifiers, the top two finishers who are not on an automatically qualifying team earn a spot, along with all other individuals who finish in the top five at the regional and are not on a qualifying team. Following the automatic qualifiers, the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Cross Country Committee will announce at-large team and individual selections on Monday, Nov. 10, at 5 p.m. ET on
www.ncaa.com, to complete the championship field.
Stan State is seeking its second consecutive at-large berth to the NCAA Championships and, if selected, would make its third trip to the national meet in the last four seasons. This year's NCAA Division II National Championships will be held on Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
