2021 Men’s Cross Country National Championship Preview
Nov 17, 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The 20201 NAIA Men’s Cross Country National Championship will take place in Vancouver, Wash. on November 19.
Championship Preview Highlights
- We will see 36 teams and 82 individuals at the 66th Annual Men’s Cross Country National Championship.
- This is the sixth year that the championship has been hosted in Vancouver, Wash.
- The Cascade Collegiate Conference serves as the host for the championship.
- The 8k race will start at 10:30 a.m. PT at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Championship Course.
- The race will be streamed live for the second 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 2020 men's cross country national champion, Taylor (Ind.), returns to the championship this year and enters the field at No. 4 in the final Top 25 poll.
- The 2020 individual champion, Zouhair Talbi of Oklahoma City, is returning to the 2021 championship with his team.
- There are 10 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.), Aquinas (Mich.), Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon, Indiana Wesleyan, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.), Shawnee State (Ohio)
- There are four teams attending the national championship for the first time since 2010: Grace (Ind.), Michigan-Dearborn, Midway (Ky.), Missouri Baptist
- The NAIA meet record for the 8k is 23:14.0 set by Silah Misoi of Life (Ga.) in 1996.
Team Participation from 2010-2021
| School | Qualification Method |
| Aquinas (Mich.) | At-large |
| Bushnell (Ore.) | Host |
| Campbellsville (Ky.) | Mid-South Conference Runner-Up |
| Carroll (Mont.) | Frontier Conference Champion |
| College of Idaho | Cascade Collegiate Conference Champion |
| Cornerstone (Mich.) | Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference Champion |
| Dakota State (N.D.) | North Star Athletic Association Champion |
| Dordt (Iowa) | Great Plains Athletic Conference Champion |
| Eastern Oregon | At-large |
| Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) | California Pacific Conference Champion |
| Goshen (Ind.) | At-large |
| Grace (Ind.) | At-large |
| Grand View (Iowa) | Heart of America Athletic Conference Champion |
| Huntington (Ind.) | At-large |
| Indiana Wesleyan | At-large |
| Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) | At-large |
| Marian (Ind.) | At-large |
| Michigan-Dearborn | At-large |
| Midway (Ky.) | River States Conference Champion |
| Milligan (Tenn.) | Appalachian Athletic Conference Champion |
| Missouri Baptist | American Midwest Conference Champion |
| Montreat (N.C.) | Appalachian Athletic Conference Runner-Up |
| Northwest (Wash.) | At-large |
| Oklahoma City | Sooner Athletic Conference Champion |
| Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) | Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Runner-Up |
| Oregon Tech | At-large |
| Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) | Red River Athletic Conference Champion |
| SCAD Savannah (Ga.) | The Sun Conference Champion |
| Shawnee State (Ohio) | Mid-South Conference Champion |
| Southern Oregon | At-large |
| St. Francis (Ill.) | Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Champion |
| St. Mary (Kan.) | Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Champion |
| Taylor (Ind.) | Crossroads League Champion |
| The Master's (Calif.) | Golden State Athletic Conference Champion |
| Wayland Baptist (Texas) | At-large |
| Westmont (Calif.) | At-large |
| William Carey (Miss.) | Southern States Athletic Conference Champion |
