Friday, September 8
Houston, TX
6:45 PM
Rice University
vs
Rice Invitational
Cross Country Opens 2023 Season with Rice Invitational
9/7/2023 7:33:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country
HOUSTON – Rice men's and women's cross country teams open their 2023 campaigns Friday, Sept. 8 when they host the 47th annual Rice Invitational at the Rice Intramural Fields. The women's 4000m race begins at 6:45 p.m. and will be followed by the men's four-mile race at approximately 7:15 p.m.
The women's cross country team is coming off a season where they finished third at the C-USA Championships. Taigen Hunter-Galvan returns this season after finishing 11th at the C-USA meet last year, earning Second Team All-Conference honors. Rice finished ninth at the NCAA South-Central regional, where Hunter-Galvan earned All-Region honors with a 19th-place finish.
This season, Rice was picked to finish ninth in the NCAA South-Central region in the USTFCCCA Preseason Polls.
The men's team comes off a fourth-place finish at the C-USA Championships a season ago and returned both Elliot Metcalf and Travis Dowd, who earned All-Conference honors. Rice had a top-10 finish in the NCAA South-Central regional, finishing eighth, after being projected to finish 14th.
The Owls were selected to finish sixth in the NCAA South-Central region in the USTFCCCA Preseason Polls.
Teams:
Concordia (M/W)
HCU (M/W)
Lamar (M/W)
North American (W)
Northwestern State (M/W)
Prairie View (M/W)
St. Thomas (M/W)
Stephen F. Austin (M/W)
Texas A&M-CC (M/W)
Texas A&M-Int'l (M/W)
Texas Lutheran (M/W)
Texas Southern (M/W)
Victoria College (M)
The women's cross country team is coming off a season where they finished third at the C-USA Championships. Taigen Hunter-Galvan returns this season after finishing 11th at the C-USA meet last year, earning Second Team All-Conference honors. Rice finished ninth at the NCAA South-Central regional, where Hunter-Galvan earned All-Region honors with a 19th-place finish.
This season, Rice was picked to finish ninth in the NCAA South-Central region in the USTFCCCA Preseason Polls.
The men's team comes off a fourth-place finish at the C-USA Championships a season ago and returned both Elliot Metcalf and Travis Dowd, who earned All-Conference honors. Rice had a top-10 finish in the NCAA South-Central regional, finishing eighth, after being projected to finish 14th.
The Owls were selected to finish sixth in the NCAA South-Central region in the USTFCCCA Preseason Polls.
Teams:
Concordia (M/W)
HCU (M/W)
Lamar (M/W)
North American (W)
Northwestern State (M/W)
Prairie View (M/W)
St. Thomas (M/W)
Stephen F. Austin (M/W)
Texas A&M-CC (M/W)
Texas A&M-Int'l (M/W)
Texas Lutheran (M/W)
Texas Southern (M/W)
Victoria College (M)
Players Mentioned
/ Men's Cross Country
/ Men's Cross Country
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