University of Tennessee Athletics
Friday, November 11
Huntsville, Ala
9:30 AM
University of Tennessee
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NCAA South Regional Championships
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November 10, 2022 | Cross Country
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The 2022 postseason continues for the Tennessee cross country program as the Vols and Lady Vols take on the NCAA South Region Championships Friday morning at the John Hunt Cross Country Course in Huntsville, Alabama.
The women's 6K will kick things off at 9:30 a.m. ET, followed by the men's 10K at 10:30 a.m. Live results will be provided by Xpress Timing and are available HERE.
The regional meet features Division I teams from Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, with the top two men's and women's programs earning automatic berths to the NCAA National Championships next week in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Individual spots at the national meet are also up for grabs for the top-four individual finishers not selected as members of NCAA-qualifying teams.
The men's squad enters the south regional off a second-place finish at the SEC Championships. Dylan Jacobs and Yaseen Abdalla helped lead the Vols to their best placement at the league meet since 1999 with second and third-place overall finishes.
Both runners garnered First Team All-SEC honors, while Karl Thiessen picked up second team honors with his 14th-place finish. Thiessen qualified for the national meet last season as an individual.
Kayla Gholar and Andie-Marie Jones led the women's squad at the conference meet with 13th and 29th-place finishes. Gholar's 13th-place finish earned her Second Team All-SEC accolades, with Jones capturing All-Freshman Team recognition.
RACING FOR THE MEN
UT will send eight runners to the regional race: Yaseen Abdalla, Canaan Anderson, Riley Buchholz, Dylan Jacobs, Nate Kawalec, Jacob Lewis, Eli Nahom and Karl Thiessen.
RACING FOR THE WOMEN
The Lady Vols squad will consist of seven runners: Msgana Araya, Brooke Dixon, Kayla Gholar, Andie-Marie Jones, Erin Spreen, Rachel Sutliff and Callie Tucker.
UP NEXT
UT will look to extend its postseason run at the NCAA National Championships, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Greiner Family OSU Cross Country Course in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The women's 6K will kick things off at 9:30 a.m. ET, followed by the men's 10K at 10:30 a.m. Live results will be provided by Xpress Timing and are available HERE.
The regional meet features Division I teams from Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, with the top two men's and women's programs earning automatic berths to the NCAA National Championships next week in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Individual spots at the national meet are also up for grabs for the top-four individual finishers not selected as members of NCAA-qualifying teams.
The men's squad enters the south regional off a second-place finish at the SEC Championships. Dylan Jacobs and Yaseen Abdalla helped lead the Vols to their best placement at the league meet since 1999 with second and third-place overall finishes.
Both runners garnered First Team All-SEC honors, while Karl Thiessen picked up second team honors with his 14th-place finish. Thiessen qualified for the national meet last season as an individual.
Kayla Gholar and Andie-Marie Jones led the women's squad at the conference meet with 13th and 29th-place finishes. Gholar's 13th-place finish earned her Second Team All-SEC accolades, with Jones capturing All-Freshman Team recognition.
RACING FOR THE MEN
UT will send eight runners to the regional race: Yaseen Abdalla, Canaan Anderson, Riley Buchholz, Dylan Jacobs, Nate Kawalec, Jacob Lewis, Eli Nahom and Karl Thiessen.
RACING FOR THE WOMEN
The Lady Vols squad will consist of seven runners: Msgana Araya, Brooke Dixon, Kayla Gholar, Andie-Marie Jones, Erin Spreen, Rachel Sutliff and Callie Tucker.
UP NEXT
UT will look to extend its postseason run at the NCAA National Championships, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Greiner Family OSU Cross Country Course in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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