The Chicago State men's and women's cross country teams competed at the Aurora University Spartan Classic Saturday at the Northwest Medicine Cross Country Course in Aurora. The women's team completed a 6K race and finished 15th out of 15 teams while the men ran an 8k race and finished 19th out of 19 teams.
Abigael Limo paced the women's team with a time of 28:19.7 while
Pablo Coviella had the top time for the men, crossing the line at 31:06.5. Complete team and individual results listed below.
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The next action for the men's and women's cross country teams will be Friday, September 16 at the Bradley Intercollegiate at Detweiller Park in Peoria, Illinois. The men will compete in an 8k race while the women will run three miles.
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Aurora University Spartan Classic
Northwest Medicine Cross Country Course
Aurora, IL
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Women (6K)
1 Loras-15
2 Lansing CC-72
3 Millikin-81
4 Heartland CC-106
5 Wheaton (IL)-148
6 St. Norbert-155
7 Judson-230
8 Aurora-232
9 Joliet Junior College-280
10 Harper College-289
11 Wisconsin Lutheran-342
12 Monmouth (IL)-352
13 Eureka-365
14 Illinois Tech-384
15 Chicago State-431
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Men (8K)
1 North Central-19
2 Loras-46
3 Heartland CC-94
4 Lansing CC-119
5 Millikin-139
6 DuPage-206
7 Wisconsin Lutheran-218
8 Wheaton (IL)-240
9 St. Norbert-253
10 Joliet Junior College-289
11 Judson-369
12 Illinois Tech-377
13 Aurora-404
14 Monmouth (IL)-435
15 Harper College-437
16 Knox-449
17 Rockford-461
18 Waubonsee CC-523
19 Chicago State-576
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Chicago State
241 (127)-Kenny Spears, 40:35.9
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About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioningm to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach
Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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