Marquette Women Earn Fifth-Straight Trip To NCAA Cross Country Championship

Marquette Women

The Marquette women’s cross country team earned an at-large bid to the 2004 NCAA Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Ind. on Nov. 22. This is Marquette’s fifth straight NCAA Championship meet.

The Golden Eagles took fifth overall at the Great Lakes Regional meet after winning their fifth-consecutive Conference USA championship two weeks ago in Chicago.

Marquette is one of only eleven NCAA Division I women’s cross country teams to have qualified for five straight NCAA Cross Country Championship meets. The Golden Eagles join Arizona State, Brigham Young, Colorado, Columbia, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Providence, Stanford, Villanova and Washington as teams who have qualified and competed in each Championship meet since 2000. BYU has the longest streak with 16 straight years of qualifying. Five of those eleven teams have combined to win 15 national championships.

Conference USA will also be represented by a pair of TCU runners at the championship. Senior Mary Kinyanjui and sophomore Calandra Stewart will participate as individuals in Terre Haute.