Cross County Set for Trip to College Station

DENTON – North Texas cross country will be back in action Saturday when they travel to College Station to compete in the second annual Arturo Barrios Invitational hosted by Texas A&M.

Competition will get underway at 9 a.m. with the men's 8,000-meter race followed by the women's 6,000-meter at 9:45 a.m. Fans can check in on live results using this link.

"We are excited to go and run down at Texas A&M," head coach Kevin Williams said. "There are a lot of teams from in and out of our region and so it'll be great to see some new competition."

The men, who have been hit with the injury bug during the 2019 season will look to bounce back after a 18^th place team finish at the Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

"On the men's side we're thin because we've run into a lot of bad luck in terms of injuries," Williams said. "But I am excited to see how the young athletes can step up."

The Mean Green will look for a strong race from senior Florian Lussy who is coming off of his first action of 2019 at the Chile Pepper, where he placed 30^th individually out of 304 runners.

North Texas checks in at number 10 in week four's USTCCCA South Central Regional Rankings.

The field for the men's race includes nine fellow South Central Region teams who also check into the regional rankings: Texas A&M (3), Rice (5), McNeese State (8), UT-Arlington (9), Baylor (11), Texas State (12), LSU (13), Abilene Christian (14) and Stephen F. Austin (15).

North Texas' women, coming off of a tough 22^nd place team finish in Fayetteville two weekends ago will also feature a young contingent of runners, some running in their first 6,000-meter race of their collegiate careers.

"The women are young as well," Williams added. "However we've had great consistency in training and they're excited for the challenge."

Sophomore Aubrey Schmidt has led the way for the Mean Green women, finishing first on the team in all three meets to start this season.

The women's field will feature 12 of the top-15 teams out of the South Central Region: Texas (2), Texas A&M (3), Baylor (6), Rice (7), LSU (8), Stephen F. Austin (9), McNeese State (10), Abilene Christian (11), UTRGV (12), UT-Arlington (13), Texas A&M – CC (14) and SMU (15).

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