Houston Meets First Big 12 Conference Championships

AMES, Iowa – The University of Houston go nation program heads to Ames, Iowa, to compete because the Cougars’ first program to compete in a Big 12 Championship tournament on the Big 12 Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
 
MEET INFORMATION
Friday, Oct. 27
Men’s 8k: 10 a.m. CT
Women’s 6k: 11 a.m. CT
Ames, Iowa
Iowa State Cross Country Course
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Graduate Claire Meyer and the highest core of graduate Brandon Seagreaves, senior Branch Cox and sophomore Miles Cox glance to paved the way for his or her respective groups.
 
Meyer, main the Cougars in each and every meet, has had two top-three finishes together with a first-place time on the Lamar Early Bird Opener. She will lean on the remainder of the ladies’s workforce to make a run on the convention {hardware}.
 
Seniors Zosia Bulhak and Kelly-Ann Beckford had been the one-two punch at the back of Meyer in each and every of the meets they competed at. Bulhak picked up a fourth-place end and a time of 14:02.77 on the Lamar Early Bird Opener and Beckford grabbed 25^th crossing the road at 18:34.80 within the 5k race on the Texas A&M Invitational. Both seniors set new private perfect occasions this season and glance to do the similar within the upcoming 6k race.
 
On the boys’s facet, there is not any straight forward peak runner. Seagreaves, and the Cox brothers have each and every the highest finisher for the Cougars in a meet this 12 months whilst atmosphere a non-public perfect time.
 
Graduate Brycen Pitre and inexperienced persons Alan Bonner, Aaron Crittenden and Patrick Flowers glance to make some other jump to beef up their occasions once more within the 8k race as they did between the Texas A&M Invitational and Arturo Barrios Invitational.
 
Friday will mark the primary Big 12 Conference Championships for any recreation at school historical past.
 
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