2019 Cross Country Schedule Released
2019 SCHEDULE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Head coach Joe Franklin has announced The University of New Mexico 2019 cross country schedule on Monday featuring several notable meets leading up to the NCAA Cross Country Championship in late November.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Lobos will open up the season with a home meet at the UNM North Golf Course on Saturday, Aug. 31. Information regarding the meet can be found HERE.
UNM will then travel to El Paso, Texas for the Lori Fitzgerald Open with UTEP and New Mexico State on Sept. 13 before heading to the thick of its schedule with the Notre Dame Invitational on Oct. 4 and the Nuttycombe Invitational on Oct. 18.
The Lobo women will then take their 11-straight MW titles to Logan, Utah and the site of the 2019 Mountain West Championships, scheduled for Nov. 1. UNM will return to Utah for its next meet, traveling to Salt Lake City for the NCAA Mountain Region on Nov. 15. Last season, the Lobo women won the regional with 41 points, the lowest total scored by the women in program history. UNM had six runners earn All-Region honors with all five scorers in the top 15, led by the duo of Weini Kelati and Ednah Kurgat, who finished first and second, respectively. It marked the third year in-a-row that a UNM runner won the race.
The NCAA National Championship closes out the season, to be held in Terre Haute, Ind. on Nov. 23.
UNM will make repeat appearances in meets that the Lobos ran in recent years, namely the Wisconsin Nuttycombe Invitational, as well as the Lori Fitzgerald Open and the Lobo Invitational from last season. The Lobos also ran in the Notre Dame Invitational in 2017. This season’s schedule will also mark the ninth-straight year that UNM will run in Madison, Wis., dating back to 2011.
On the women’s side, the Lobos are coming off of a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championship, led by a runner-up finish by Kelati. The Lobos had three All-Americans in Kelati, Kurgat and Charlotte Prouse.
Franklin enters his 13th year at New Mexico and is coming off a season in which he was named the Women’s Conference Coach of the Year and the Women’s USTFCCCA Regional Coach of the Year.
Kelati enters her junior year following a remarkable sophomore season in which she won Women’s USTFCCCA Regional Athlete of the Year, the Women’s USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week (Oct. 15), Women’s Conference Athlete of the Year and twice was named the Conference Athlete of the Week. She finished second in the Honda Sport Award for Cross Country after finishing second at the NCAA Championship.