Eight Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Teams to be Represented at NCAA Championships

Results:  Great Lakes Regional  |  Mid-Atlantic Regional  |  Midwest Regional  |  West Regional  

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Eight Big Ten teams will be represented at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championships following results at NCAA Regionals held around the country on Friday. The top two teams and the top four individuals not on a qualifying team at each regional earned automatic berths to the NCAA Championships, which will take place Nov. 22 in Columbia, Missouri. At-large teams were revealed in the NCAA’s selection show on NCAA.com on Saturday at 5 p.m. ET.  

Three Big Ten programs finished in the top two of their respective 6K regional championships and earned automatic berths on Friday. Oregon tallied 75 points to place second in the West Regional with three top-10 finishers. 2025 Big Ten individual title holder Diana Cherotich placed second (19:12.6) while Silan Ayyildiz finished third (19:16.8) and Anika Thompson checked in at ninth (19:48.0). 

Northwestern placed second in the Midwest Regional behind 86 points with Northwestern finishing 
four consecutive runners in the top 20 (15^th, 16^th, 17^th, 18^th) in an all-around effort. Wisconsin also had a solid team effort and claimed second place in the Great Lakes Regional with 95 points. 

Both Penn State and Washington were selected as at-large qualifiers by the NCAA. Penn State finished third in the Mid-Atlantic Region with 76 points, while Washington finished fifth in a stacked West division with 124 points. 

Individually, three Big Ten runners placed within the top four outside of the qualifying teams to secure a spot in Columbia.  

In the Great Lakes Regional, Michigan State’s Rachel Forsyth (19:45.14) clocked in third at the Great Lakes Regional and Ohio State’s Aniya Mosley finished eighth with a time of 20:07.73. Maryland’s Rose Coats finished seventh (19:46.1) in the Mid-Atlantic Regional to qualify.