New Mexico Men’s and Women’s Cross Country head to Colorado Springs, Colo. this week for Mountain West Championships as overwhelming favorites in both races, with both Lobos squads ranked in the Top 10 nationally at the same time for the first time in over a decade and gunning for their first sweep of the men’s and women’s team titles since 2014.

Friday’s racing kicks off with the Women’s 6K at 10 a.m. MT before the Men’s 8K at 10:45 a.m., with award ceremonies following the conclusion of both races. The action will be streamed via the MW Network, with live results available via GoLobos.com/XCResults.

The UNM men — currently ranked No. 6 in the nation — are vying for a repeat after winning their first MW team title since 2014 last season.  Meanwhile, the Lobo women — who moved up from No. 17 to No. 8 in the nation after their last showing — seek to avenge a fourth-place finish in 2023 that snapped an unprecedented 15-year streak of consecutive conference titles.

In total, New Mexico has won 22 Mountain West titles combined between men and women — more than any other conference school, past or present. The school with the next-most is BYU (17). But even then, UNM has only swept both the men’s and women’s team and individual titles twice, doing so in 2011 and 2012 — they’ve won both the men’s and women’s team titles in the same year six times, most recently in 2014. With Pamela Kosgei and Habtom Samuel both solidly in the conversation among NCAA individual title frontrunners and both UNM squads as runaway favorites in the pre-championship poll, this might be New Mexico’s best chance since then for a podium sweep.