Complete Results
SACRAMENTO -- The Big West had a combined three All-Region honorees, two in the women’s 6K and one in the men’s 10K, to highlight the league’s performance at the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championship West Regionals. The meet was held Friday at Haggin Oaks Golf Course. All-Region praise is awarded to the top 25 finishers in each of the nine regional meets around the country.

In the women’s 6K, Cal Poly was the top team from the conference with 284 points for an eighth-place finish. UC San Diego (13th/337 points), UC Irvine (14th/458 points), UC Santa Barbara (17th/596 points) and UC Davis (19th/611 points) round out the top five squads from the conference. The automatic qualifiers for the NCAA Championships went to first-place Stanford and second-place Oregon. Individually, Cal Poly’s Kelli Gaffney was the top finisher from The Big West in 16th place with a time of 20:07.5. UC San Diego’s Sylvana Northrop (25th/20:16.6), Lucy Milliner of Hawai‘i (43rd/20:43.6), Cal Poly’s Nicole Bridges (50th/20:49.0) and UC Irvine’s Kaia Schmidt (60th/21:01.2) were the top placers from The Big West. Gaffney and Northrop earned All-Region honors by virtue of placing in the top 25.

In the men’s 10K, UC Davis was the top team from The Big West with 281 points for 10th place. Cal Poly (11th/286 points), Long Beach State (16th/507th), UC San Diego (18th/534 points) and UC Santa Barbara (21st/548 points) were the top five squads from the league. Muhammed Ahmed of UC Davis (30:00.3) was the top runner from the league in 25th place, and earned All-Region honor in the process. Fellow Aggie Donovan Cheruiyot (31st/30:07.9), UC Irvine’s Juan Chantaca (32nd/30:09.4), Ethan Brooks of UC Davis (35th/30:12.2) and Cal Poly’s Spencer Pickren (38th/30:16.5) were the top individual finishers from the conference. 

The top two teams at regionals automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships. Additionally, 13 at-large teams are selected by the NCAA DI Cross Country Subcommittee to bring the total number of qualifying teams to 31. As for the individuals, 36 will automatically qualify for nationals by being one of the top four regional finishers not on an advancing team. Then the committee will select two additional individuals for at-large bids. That brings the total number of individuals to 38 per gender. The 2025 DI NCAA Cross Country Championship selections will be announced on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. PT on NCAA.com.