BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Cross Country will close out regular season competition Friday, Oct. 16 at the Blazer Classic in Hoover, Ala.
The meet will be hosted by UAB and held at Veterans Park, the same course where the Conference USA Cross Country Championships will be held this season.
The women's squad will compete first with a 6K beginning at 9:55 a.m. CT, followed by the men's 8K at 10:25 a.m. CT.
"The next two meets are going to be at the same venue," said cross country head coach Brooks LeCompte. "UAB is hosting the Blazer Classic coming up, and then that's going to be the host site for conference. We just want to get a good idea of how the courses run and where we can pick our spots to perform at our best.
"I've been kind of advising our team early on to run aggressively, to push hard from the beginning. I just want to put them in an adverse situation where they are going to have to find something within themselves to push and get the best out of themselves."
Eight men and seven women will travel for the meet, with Miles Huff, Will Perrone, Clint Sherman, Jacob Skillman, Anthony Sweet, Dedrick Troxell, Steven Votaw and Emerson Wells traveling on the men's side, while Savannah Heckman, Zoe Manning, Carley Maskos, Rory O'Connor, Lucy Rutherford, Jenna Vaughn and Haley Webb will make the trip on the women's side.
The women's team will compete against 11 other schools, while the men will face off against eight other teams. Schools that WKU will be competing against include Arkansas, Florida State and Georgia Tech.
The Blazer Classic will mark an end to WKU's regular season, with the squad then heading into the C-USA Championships on Saturday, Oct. 31.
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