2020 Men’s Cross Country National Championship Preview
Apr 08, 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 2020 Men’s Cross Country National Championship will take place in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on April 9.
Championship Preview Highlights
- We will see 36 teams and 96 individuals at the 65th Annual Men’s Cross Country National Championship.
- This is the second year that the championship has been hosted in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Mount Mercy University (Iowa) serves as the host for the championship.
- The 8k race will start at 11:30 a.m. at the Seminole Valle Cross Country Course.
- The race will be streamed live for the first time this year and can be found HERE
- The timer will be sending live results HERE. Keep in mind these results are not finalized until after the review period.
- The 2019 men’s cross country national champion, Oklahoma City, returns to the championship and enters the field at No. 6 in the latest Top 25 poll.
- The 2019 individual champion, Mark Shaw or Oklahoma City, is not returning to the 2020 championship as he graduated after last season.
- There are five teams attending the national championship that have 10 or more appearances since 2010: College of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho), St. Francis (Ill.), The Master’s (Calif.) and Aquinas (Mich.)
- There are four teams attending the national championship for the first time since 2010: Grand View (Iowa), Philander Smith (Ark.), Southeastern (Fla.) and Spring Arbor (Mich.)
- The NAIA meet record for the 8k is 23:14.0 set by Silah Misoi of Life (Ga.) in 1996.
Team Participation from 2010-2020
| School | Appearances |
| Aquinas (Mich.) | 10 |
| Baker (Kan.) | 5 |
| Carroll (Mont.) | 4 |
| College of Idaho | 11 |
| Columbia (Mo.) | 8 |
| Cornerstone (Mich.) | 7 |
| Dakota State (S.D) | 3 |
| Doane (Neb.) | 2 |
| Dordt (Iowa) | 4 |
| Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | 7 |
| Friends (Kan.) | 3 |
| Goshen (Ind.) | 3 |
| Grand View (Iowa) | 1 |
| Huntington (Ind.) | 3 |
| Indiana Wesleyan | 9 |
| Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | 11 |
| Loyola (La.) | 2 |
| Milligan (Tenn.) | 5 |
| Montreat (N.C.) | 3 |
| Mount Mercy (Iowa) | 6 |
| Northwest (Wash.) | 2 |
| Northwestern (Iowa) | 4 |
| Oklahoma City | 8 |
| Oregon Tech | 6 |
| Philander Smith (Ark.) | 1 |
| Point Park (Pa.) | 2 |
| Rocky Mountain (Mont.) | 4 |
| Shawnee State (Ohio) | 8 |
| Southeastern (Fla.) | 1 |
| Spring Arbor (Mich.) | 1 |
| St. Francis (Ill.) | 11 |
| St. Mary (Kan.) | 4 |
| Taylor (Ind.) | 7 |
| The Masters (Calif.) | 11 |
| William Carey (Mich.) | 3 |
| WVU Tech (W.Va.) | 3 |
