This past Halloweekend, your Drake University men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the Missouri Valley Conference Championship meet at Missouri State. Both teams competed well, with the men finishing 5th and the women finishing 8th.
For the coaches who transitioned to Drake from the SEC and many of the athletes, this was their first MVC cross country championship experience. The men’s and women’s teams are very young with only two of eight female runners and two of seven male runners being upperclassmen.
For the first-years, this was their first experience ever in a collegiate conference race.