Mean Green set for Regional Meet

DENTON – The North Texas men's and women's cross country teams will head to Fayetteville, Arkansas Friday for the 2019 NCAA South Central Regional at Agri Park on the campus of the University of Arkansas. The top-two teams in each race will advance to the NCAA Championships with the top-four individual runners not on one of the top-two teams also advancing.

The women's 6K race will kick off 11 a.m. followed by the men's 10K at 12 p.m. Teams can race seven individual runners with the top five finishers compiling their team score.

The Mean Green are coming off of rough finishes at the Conference USA Championship two weeks ago where the men took sixth while the women took seventh. North Texas will look to end a season plagued by injuries with impressive showings in Fayetteville.

"On the men's side, like it's been all year it's a very young group," head coach Kevin Williams said. "Five of the seven people that we're taking have never run 10K cross country before, so it'll be a big test for them but will gain very valuable experience from this meet."

North Texas' men's team will be led by senior Florian Lussy who a year ago placed third individually at the regional meet and made North Texas' third NCAA Championship apperance. Lussy has paced the Mean Green all season long and placed eighth individually at the Conference USA Championship.

Lussy will be joined by junior Matthew Morgan, sophomore Caleb Bouchard and freshmen Spencer Boykin, Mason Garner, Braden Lange and Riley Wood. Bouchard, Boykin, Garner, Lange and Wood will all be racing in the first collegiate 10K race of their careers.

"On the women's side we have had great consistency in training over these last two weeks," Williams said. "I don't think we've had our best race of the season yet, which is exciting that we can continue to step up."

Sophomore Aubrey Schmidt will highlight the North Texas women, Schmidt has been the first woman for North Texas in every race this season with her most recent finish being 22nd at the Conference USA Championships. She will be joined on the course by graduate student Baylee Nelson, seniors Darrian Johnson and Jennifer White, junior Gwyneth Garcia, and freshmen Erika Barrett and Laurynn Hogan.

"I'm excited to see how this race helps us build for the future." Williams said.

The North Texas men currently sit at no. 11 in the South Central Region ranking while the women go into the meet unranked. Texas (no. 1 in Men and no. 2 in Women) and Arkansas (no.1 in women and no. 2 in men) occupying the top-2 spots in both polls.

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