SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Both Washington State men's and women's cross country teams earned at-large bids into the NCAA Cross Country Championships, which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia, Mo. The championships will be broadcast on ESPNU starting at 7 a.m. PT.  
 
The women's 6K race will start at 7:20 a.m. PT, and the men’s 10K race will begin at 8:10 a.m. PT. Click here for live results. 
 
Five West Coast Conference teams will be represented at the national championships with one men's runner qualifying as individuals and three women's runners. The men's runner is Jonas Price from Portland. Price led the Pilots to a fifth-place team finish at Friday's NCAA West Regional with a personal-best time of 29:26.1 PR, good for fifth place individually. The women's individual qualifiers are Logan Hofstee and Jessica Frydenlund from Gonzaga, and Anna Buettner from San Francisco. The three individual qualifiers finished in the top 15 at Friday's West Regional with Hofstee coming in seventh (19:36.7), Frydenlund in 13th (20:02.1) and Buettner in 14th (20:04.2).

After winning the West Coast Conference women's individual title and Freshman of the Year honors at the West Coast Conference Championships on Nov. 1, Washington State's Rosemary Longisa won the individual title at the NCAA West Regional with a time of 19:08.3. Washington State finished fourth as a team.

On the men's side, Washington State just missed obtaining the automatic qualifier, finishing third at the NCAA West Regional, but the top two finishers were Solomon Kipchoge, also the individual champion at the West Coast Conference Championships, and Evans Kurui, the 2024 West Coast Conference and NCAA West Regional champion. Kipchoge's time was 28:54.1 and Kurui in second at 29:23.1.