Cyclones Bound For NCAA Championships

AMES, Iowa - The NCAA DI Cross Country Championships await the No. 23 Iowa State men's and No. 16 women's squads on Saturday in Terre Haute, Indiana. The meet will be run at LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course, with the women's 6K race slated to begin at 10 a.m. CT, followed by the men's 10K at 11 a.m. CT.

Iowa State will be one of just 14 programs in the country to have both its men's and women's teams take the course on Saturday, as both qualified in the same year for the ninth time in school history, and just the second time since 1995. The Cyclone women are one of eight programs nationally to receive a bid to the NCAA Championships in each of the last eight years. The men advanced to the NCAA meet as a team for the first time since 2009.

Both squads received at-large bids to the NCAA Championships after the women finished third at the Midwest Regional meet, while the men placed fourth. The teams, which had both accumulated strong regular and postseason resumes, were among 13 teams selected by the NCAA for at-large berths.

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Cyclone Notebook
*The Iowa State cross country teams will head to Terre Haute, Indiana for the 2016 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships Saturday, Nov. 19. The women's race will start at 11 a.m. CT, with the men's race at noon CT.

*Iowa State is one of just 14 schools in the country to have both its men's and women's teams advance to the NCAA Championships. Both squads are nationally ranked in the latest USTFCCCA Coaches' Poll, with the women ranked No. 16, and the men's team slotted at No. 23.

*The Iowa State women's cross country team is one of just eight programs in the country to receive a bid to the NCAA Championships each of the last eight years.

*In the fourth year of the Martin Smith era at Iowa State, the Director of Track & Field and Cross Country has returned the men's XC program to national prominence. The Cyclone men are competing at the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2009.

*This will mark the ninth time in school history, and just the second time since 1995, that the Iowa State men's and women's cross country teams will both compete at the NCAA Championships. Both teams received at-large bids to the meet.

*The Cyclone women finished 3rd at the NCAA Midwest Regional, while the men took 4th place. The Iowa State women had four All-Region finishers (Perez Rotich, Anne Frisbie, Erin Hooker and Branna MacDougall), while the men had three (Thomas Pollard, Kevyn Hoyos and Josef Andrews).

*The Iowa State women reign supreme in the Big 12 once again, following a dominant performance at the 2016 Big 12 Championship. It marks their fifth Big 12 title in six years.

*Iowa State's top three men's finishers at the Big 12 Championship were either freshmen or sophomores. Freshman Thomas Pollard (4th), sophomore Josef Andrews (8th) and freshman Andrew Jordan (9th) were the only underclassmen in the entire field to place in the top 10.

*The Cyclone men and women combined to rack up eight All-Big 12 honors at the conference meet in Lubbock. It was the most combined all-conference honorees since the Big 12's inception.

*The Iowa State men scored just 49 points courtesy of a strong team effort at the Big 12 Championship. It was their best team score ever at a Big 12 Championship.

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