Mastodon Cross Country to Compete in NCAA Great Lakes Regional

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Purdue Fort Wayne will travel to Norton, Ohio for the NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Nov. 15).

Race Information
Meet: NCAA Great Lakes Regional
When: Friday, November 15 | 11:00 a.m. ET (women's 6K) | noon ET (men's 10K)
Where: Silver Creek Cross Country Course, Norton, Ohio
Meet Info: Link
Live Results: Link
Participating Teams: Cincinnati, Dayton, Valpraiso, Youngstown St., Central Michigan, Purdue Fort Wayne, Butler, Ohio State, Akron, Purdue, Ohio, Oakland, Wisconsin, Miami (Ohio), Marquette, Indiana State, Notre Dame, Wright State, Bowling Green, Michigan State, Detroit Mercy, IU Indianapolis, Green Bay, Michigan, Indiana, Milwaukee, Toledo, Xavier (Ohio), Western Michigan (women only), Ball State (women only), Cleveland State (women only), Kent State (men only), Eastern Michigan (men only), Evansville (men only).

Men's Participants: Colten Gasson, Austin Hall, Kobe Milledge, Nathan Mills, Nicholas Mills, Harrison Niswander, Marcus Ridge.

Women's Participants: Faith Allen, Kynzlei Bassett, Lydia Carrell,Ava Genovese, Haylee Hile, Mercedes Sarver, Riley Tate.

Looking Back
The Purdue Fort Wayne cross country teams finished 23rd and 24th at the 2023 Great Lakes Regional. The men's team, led by Austin Hall, placed 23rd after Hall finished 93rd and set a personal best 10K finish. Harrison Niswander earned 115th, Nicholas Mills placed 139th and Kobe Milledge finished 173rd. The women's team finished 24th, Ava Genovese earned 164th, Lydia Carrell placed 186th and Haylee Hile finished 190th.

Season Notes

Ava Genovese was named Horizon League Runner of the Week after finishing fifth at Green Bay's Phoenix Open, earning her the weekly award on Sept. 10.
The program's 8K record has been broken three times this season. Austin Hall broke the record at the Phoenix Open (Sept. 6) with a time of 24:43:9. Harrison Niswander broke the time set by Hall in back-to-back meets. Niswander started with a time of 24:35.5 at the Joe Piane Invitational at Notre Dame, he then improved his time by 10 seconds in the following meet at Bradley. That mark of 24:20.43 stands as the program's 8K record.
Riley Tate and Ava Genovese placed themselves in the program's top-ten finishes for both the 5K and 6K. The Mastodons competed in their lone 5K at Notre Dame's Joe Piane Invitational (Oct. 4). Tate now sits third in the program records (17:34.3) and Genovese owns eighth (17:56.9). The two 'Dons found their placement on the program's top-ten 6K finishes in the same meet, the Bradley Pink Classic (Oct. 18). Tate completed the meet in 21:05.28, which is fifth-best, and Genovese earned a spot at seventh (21:43.48) after the meet.
6 of the 7 Mastodons competing in the women's NCAA Great Lakes Regional ran personal-best times in consecutive meets, the Joe Piane Invitational and Bradley Pink Classic.
Riley Tate and Ava Genovese earn Purdue Fort Wayne third at the Horizon League Women's Cross Country Championship (Nov. 2). Tate earned a spot on the First Team All-Horizon League after a sixth place finish (21:36.9) and Genovese was named to the Second Team All-Horizon League following a ninth place finish (22:01.2).

Looking Forward
The top two teams in each of the NCAA Great Lakes Regional races will get automatic bids to the national championships. 13 at-large teams will also be selected by the DI Cross Country Subcommittee. The first four individual regional finishers from a team that didn't qualify for the championships will also automatically qualify. Two individual at-larges will also be selected for the national championships.

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Purdue University Fort Wayne Athletics

Mastodon Cross Country to Compete in NCAA Great Lakes Regional

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Faith Allen

Kynzlei Bassett

Lydia Carrell

Colten Gasson

Ava Genovese

Austin Hall

Haylee Hile

Kobe Milledge

Nathan Mills

Nicholas Mills

Harrison Niswander

Marcus Ridge

Mercedes Sarver

Riley Tate

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