Oregon Wins 2025 Men’s Cross Country Championship
Ducks win first Big Ten Championship, Laadjel wins individual title
Photo by Kelly Branigan
Men's Results
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Championships Central
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2025 Big Ten Cross Country Champions Merch
EAST LANSING, Mich. – The Oregon men’s cross country team claimed its first team title after winning the 2025 Big Ten Cross Country Championship, hosted by Michigan State University at Forest Akers East Golf Course.
The Ducks totaled 36 points, which included five runners placing in the top 15. Michigan State tallied 68 points, and Wisconsin recorded 90 points to round out the podium finishers.
Oregon’s Abdel Laadjel claimed the individual title, finishing the 8K course in a time of 23:11.6. Michigan State’s Riley Hough and Thomas Westphal, three-time Big Ten Athlete and Freshman of the Week award winners respectively this season, finished second and third.
This marks the first time a team other than Wisconsin has won the men’s team title since 2017, and the first time a runner other than the Badgers’ Bob Liking, who graduated last year, has won the individual title since 2020.
Oregon coach Jerry Schumacher also became the first coach to win a cross country title for multiple teams in the Big Ten. He previously won 11 titles with Wisconsin and now earned his first with the Ducks.
The top 10 finishers at the Big Ten Championships garnered first team All-Big Ten honors, while competitors in places 11-20 received second team laurels. The five highest-finishing freshmen earned a spot on the all-freshman team.
2025 Men’s Cross Country All-Big Ten Honors
First Team
Abdel Laadjel, Oregon
Riley Hough, Michigan State
Thomas Westphal, Michigan State
Evan Bishop, Oregon
Jamar Distel, Washington
Aiden Smith, Oregon
Douglas Buckeridge, Purdue
Christian de Vaal, Wisconsin
Matan Ivri, Wisconsin
Liam Newhart, Wisconsin
Second Team
Nathan Lopez, Michigan
Benjamin Balazs, Oregon
Connor Burns, Oregon
Trent McFarland, Michigan
Luke Venhuizen, Michigan
Michael Hegarty, Michigan State
Simeon Birnbaum, Oregon
Nathan Walker, Purdue
Tayson Echohawk, Oregon
Jack Meier, Oregon
All-Freshman Team
Thomas Westphal, Michigan State
Jack Meier, Oregon
Andreas Dybdahl, UCLA
Everett Capelle, UCLA
Aloysius Franzen, Minnesota