Waterloo, Indiana junior Mark Beckmann competes in the 32nd Annual Jeff Drenth Memorial Run on Sep. 1 at Pleasant Hills Golf Club.
The Central Michigan cross country team failed to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships in two weeks at the Great Lakes Regional in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The women finished 18th of 31 teams, while the men took 16th of 26. To automatically qualify, CMU had to record a top-two finish.
Though the team wasn’t able to secure a bid to Nationals, head coaches Matt Kaczor and Jenny Sweiton have been stressing the importance of season-to-season improvement to their young teams.