Wolverines Receive At-Large Selection to NCAA Championships
11/15/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
Nov. 15, 2014
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The 12th-ranked University of Michigan men's cross country team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships, as announced by the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track and Field Committee today (Saturday, Nov. 15).
Thirty-one teams were selected to participate in each championship, both of which will run next Saturday (Nov. 22). The top two seven-person teams in each NCAA Regional automatically qualified, for a total of 18 teams, and 13 additional teams -- the Maize and Blue among them -- were selected at-large. Thirty-eight individuals were also selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. The men's race is slated for a 1 p.m. gun.
The Wolverines will make their first NCAA Championships appearance under first-year head coach Kevin Sullivan and their sixth in the past seven seasons.
U-M took third at Friday's (Nov. 14) NCAA Great Lakes Regional, led by all-region performances from senior/junior Mason Ferlic, sophomore Ben Flanagan and senior/junior August Pappas. Junior/sophomore George Kelly and sophomore/freshman Aaron Baumgarten rounded out Michigan's scoring five.
Indiana State University will host the championships at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center in Terre Haute, Ind. A live webcast of the championships will be broadcast from noon (EST) until the conclusion of the awards ceremony on NCAA.com.
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