Michigan
Big Ten Championships
Wolverines to Open Postseason at B1G Championships at Illinois
10/30/2024 3:28:00 PM | Men's Cross Country
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's cross country team will head to Savoy, Ill., for the Big Ten Championships on Friday (Nov. 1) at 11:35 a.m. CDT, hosted by Illinois at the Orang and Blue Golf Course.
Notes
• U-M will run eight kilometers on the Orange and Blue Golf Course in Savoy, Ill., and the met will be streamed live on Big Ten Network.
• U-M fell out of the USTFCCCA Coaches Poll in the final rankings of the regular season, receiving 16 votes. The team is No. 6 in the Great Lakes Region rankings, with Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Butler, Michigan State and Indiana making up the top five.
• The Wolverines closed out the regular season in Dexter, Mich., at the EMU Fall Classic last Friday (Oct. 25), seeing five top-10 finishes in the non-scored meet.
• Henry Johnson was named the Big Ten Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Week on Wednesday (Oct. 30) for his performance at the EMU Fall Classic (Oct. 25), where he was the team's lead runner. Johnson placed fourth with a time of 15:07.3 and finished 39 seconds faster than his time at the 2023 EMU Fall Classic (15:46.7).
• The next runner to finish for the Maize and Blue was Riley Flemington, coming in seventh (15:17.1). Aiden Sullivan finished eighth (15:22.6),Akili Parekh finished ninth (15:23.1), and Nolan Clark finished 10th (15:23.4).
• Michigan finished second at last year's Big Ten Championships for the third straight year. Tom Brady's third-place finish (24:18.9) led the team's effort, with three other Wolverines placing in the top-20. Owen MacKenzie finished eighth (24:36.9), Caleb Jarema finished 11th (24:39.0), and Luke Venhuizen finished 20th (24:59.1). Nathan Lopez earned a 21st-place finish with a time of 24:59.1, missing the top-20 by just three seconds.
• Peter Baracco, Zach Stewart, Anthony Hancock, Jarema, Jack Kelke, Kyler McNatt, Jozef Meyers, Jack Spamer, Venhuizen, Lopez, Heath McAllister and Trent McFarland will race.
• Stewart and Meyers return to the conference meet for the first time since 2022, while McNatt and McFarland will make their Big Ten Championships debut.
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