Little Rock Cross Country to Get Championship Preview Saturday

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock gets one final meet before the preseason begins when the Trojans head to Stillwater, Oklahoma for the Weis-Crockett Invitational Saturday morning.
 
The meet will be a preseason preview as it is held at the site of the 2022 NCAA Championships.
 
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Participating Teams
Little Rock, Abilene Christian, Arkansas (Men #21), Butler, Cal Baptist (Women #19 & Men #29), Charleston Southern, DePaul, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, Liberty, Missouri, Montana State (Men #25), Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State (Women #3, Men #4), Oral Roberts, Pittsburgh, Portland State, Purdue, South Dakota State, Southern Utah, Saint Louis, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Washington State, Weber State, Wyoming, Yale
 
Three Things to Know

1. Championship Preview
   When Little Rock heads to Stillwater this weekend for the Weis-Crockett Invitational, the Trojans make getting a sneak preview at what's to come. Oklahoma State is hosting the 2022 NCAA Cross Country Championships and the course the Trojans will run on Saturday will be the same course on which a national champion is crown in November.
2. First and 15
   The Trojans felt they ran decent times in Fayetteville at the dry and dusty Chile Pepper Invitational, but little did they know how well they ran. When the results came in, the Little Rock women's performances marked the first time since 2007 that the Trojans had four women run sub-19-minute times at the Chile Pepper Invite. Credit Matilda Horton (17:50.4), Kyla Lochtefeld (18:28.7), Ariana Garcia (18:47.6) and Brooke Walker (18:59.5) for making moves on the course.
3. Little Rock in the Top 10 - You've Gotta #OVCit!
   Not just see, but pay attention. Little Rock's Spencer Cardinal and Zach McPhee are both in the Ohio Valley Conference's Top 10 performance chart in 8K races this season. Cardinal entered on Sept. 30 and ranks eighth after running 24:44.2 at the Chile Pepper Invitational while McPhee's time of 24:49.3 at the Texas A&M Invitational currently ranks 10th in the league. On the women's side, Matilda Horton ranks third in the OVC's 5K charts after running 17:49.5 at the UCA XC Challenge on Sept. 10 while Kyla Lochtefeld's mark of 18:22.7 from the same meet currently ranks her seventh int he OVC.

 
 
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