Alabama Cross Country Puts Six on NCAA All-Region Team
11/16/2021 3:36:00 PM | Track & Field, Cross Country
The Crimson Tide put three men and three women on this year’s All-South Region team
NEW ORLEANS – The Alabama cross country team totaled six student-athletes on this year's NCAA All-South Region Team, including three men and three women.
Victor Kiprop, Eliud Kipsang and Hillary Cheruiyot earned the recognition for the men's team after leading the Crimson Tide to a second-place finish at the NCAA South Regional Championships and an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.
Mercy Chelangat, Flomena Asekol and Esther Gitahi earned the regional honor for the women after pacing UA to a third-place team finish in last Friday's race. The Tide went on to earn an at-large bid to this week's NCAA Championships.
The Tide men last earned a trio of All-Region honors in 2019 (Gilbert Kigen, Vincent Kiprop and Noel Rotich), while the women last earned three honors in a single season in 1999 (Dawn Boggs, Amanda Grout and Ashley LaBudde).
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- Alabama is sending both its men's and women's teams to the NCAA Championships in the same season for just the second time in program history and the first time since 1994
- The women's race gets underway at 9:20 a.m. CT, while the men toe the line at 10:10 a.m. CT
- It will be the second time this season that Alabama has raced at the Apalachee Regional Park and Cross Country Course after competing at the Pre-Nationals Invitational in mid-October
- This year's appearance marks just the second time since 1993-94 that the Crimson Tide women have earned back-to-back berths
- Last season, junior Mercy Chelangat became UA's first individual NCAA cross country champion
- The Alabama women were eighth at last season's NCAA Championships, the second-best finish in school history
- The UA men are returning to the NCAA Championships after a one-year hiatus
- The men finished 24th in their last team appearance, which came in 2019
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