STANFORD, Calif. — After successful races at the NCAA DI XC West Regionals a day ago, Stanford’s Julia Flynn and the Cardinal men’s contingency have secured a place at the NCAA DI National Championship race at Indiana State University’s LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course next week. The Cardinal contingent heads to Terre Haute, Ind., with races beginning on Saturday, November 21 with the women’s 6K championships at 7:20 a.m. PT followed by the men’s 10K race at 8:10 a.m. PT.Â
Flynn earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship race with a blistering seventh-place finish on Friday, running 19:33.8. Flynn advanced as one of the top-four finishers from a non-advancing team as she runs in the NCAA Championship race for the third time in her career.Â
The Stanford men, however, secured an at-large bid following Friday’s regional run catapulted by a third-place team finish. Stanford, which finished just five points back of an automatic qualifying bid, advanced into the tournament on points over the remaining teams in the field for at-large bids. Three Cardinal ran into an All-Region honor including James Dargan and Paul Bergeron who placed in the top 15.