2019 NCAA Division III Midwest Regional |
Final Results
WINNECONNE (November 16, 2019) - For the third consecutive year, the UW-Stout men's cross country team placed fifth at the NCAA Division III Midwest Cross Country Championship at Lake Breeze Golf Club near Oshkosh.
The last two seasons, the Blue Devils earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship. Stout will need to wait until Sunday afternoon to hear if they will be making the trip for the third consecutive year.
Sophomore
Spencer Schultz paced the Blue Devils with a 13th place finish in a time of 25-minutes, 7.3-seconds, moving up from a 56th place finish at last year's regional meet at Whitetail Golf Club.
Senior
Mike Friedman placed 26th in a time of 25:25.8 and senior
Michael Fifield placed 34th in a time of 25:32.2. The top 35 runners earn All-Region honors from the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Junior
Brian Mathews placed 47th (25:58.1), sophomore
Matthew Ryan was 57th (26:11.0), sophomore
Mitchell Popp was 73rd (26:25.5) and freshman
Ethan Hinderman, running in his first regional meet, was 88th (26:49.7) of 253 runners.
North Central College and UW-La Crosse finished first and second, respectively, earning the automatic bids to the national meet. Washington University was third and the University of Chicago placed fourth.
The top two teams in each gender will secure automatic berths into the NCAA Division III Championships that will be held next Saturday (Nov. 23) at the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park in Louisville, Ky. Sixteen other at-large bids will be awarded from the nation's eight total regions. The top seven individual finishers from each region not on one of the team qualifiers will also earn an invitation to the national championships.
