GREENSBORO, N.C. –  The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) men's and women's cross country teams will compete at the 2024 adidas Cross Country Challenge on Friday, Sept. 20 in Cary, North Carolina at the WakeMed Soccer Park Cross Country Course.
The men's six-kilometer race will begin at 5:15 p.m. and the women's five-kilometer race will start at 5:55 p.m.

MEET INFORMATION:
LIVE RESULTS
Meet website
Men's 6k – 5:15 PM  - COURSE MAP
Women's 5k – 5:55 PM  - COURSE MAP
Free admission and free parking (Saturday only)

COURSE DESCRIPTION
From the start you head downhill for approximately 550m. It runs flat until about the 1050 mark. There is a gradual, winding hill that is approximately 250m in length. The course then flattens out for 150m then you head back downhill for 150m. It runs flat for the next 150m, which brings you past the 1-mile mark. You then head back up the same hill that you started down. After cresting the hill at the starting line, you run flat for approximately 450-500m. Then the course heads down hill, and you begin a series of fairly steep rolling hills (2) that are crested just as you reach the 2-mile mark. There is a long gradual downhill for approximately the next 300m. The course runs flat from about 3600m until about the 4400m mark. The final climb is running up the starting hill one last time and then you run flat for the last 90m into the finish.

SPARTANS LINEUP – Women (subject to change):
Camille Carlson, Lillian Douglass, Tenley Douglass, Kaitlyn Harrison, Serena Henderson, Dahlia Lind, Bella Manfre, Hailey Meyers, Vicky Sosa, Blair Taylor

SPARTANS LINEUP – Men (subject to change):
Khalid Abdullahi, JT Brownlee, Spencer Connick, Pierson Guerrant, Andrew Hamilton, James Harrelson, Colin Keck, Ethan Long, Glodi Mvovi, Tyler Niloff, Logan Ruffner, Logan Thanos, Luke Ward, Judah Weesner

ABOUT THE WOMEN

• The Spartan women tallied 39 points and were voted to finish sixth in the 2024 SoCon Preseason Poll.
• The women concluded the 2023 cross country season competing at the 2023 NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championships.
• They finished 30^th out of 34 teams totaling 834 points. Jenna Reiter, who graduated, competed in her third NCAA Regional and finished in 125^th place, while current junior Vicky Sosa was the second Spartan to cross the finish line taking home 143^rd place.
• The Spartans posted third place as a team twice last season, once at their opening Queen City Invite and then again at the Winthrop/adidas Invitational.
• The women return eight from last year's roster and added four freshmen.

ABOUT THE MEN

• The men totaled 39 points and tied with Western Carolina for sixth place in the 2024 SoCon Preseason Poll.
• Current junior Luke Ward was the only Spartan that competed at the 2023 NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championships. Ward placed 127^th overall, besting his mark from the previous year.
• The men's squad saw their best mark at the Queen City Invite last year, placing second overall.
• They later took home eighth at the Upstate Invitational and then seventh at the SoCon Championships.
• Senior Ethan Long led the way for the Spartans at the SoCon Championships earning All-Conference second team honors and finishing ninth overall and Ward placed 25^th overall.
• The men return 14 from last year's roster and have added five newcomers.

UP NEXT
The Spartans will take some time off before competing in the Pirate Cross Country Invitational on Friday, Oct. 4 in Greenville, North Carolina, at Overton's Lake Kristi.