Cross Country Preview: NCAA South Region Championships

Friday, November 9

Tallahassee, Fla.

7:30 am

University of Memphis

NCAA South Region Championships (M: 10k/W: 6k)

Matthew Viveiros, 2018 Men's Cross Country

Photo by: Matthew Smith

Cross Country Preview: NCAA South Region Championships

Nov 08, 2018 | Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country

Tigers wrap up the 2018 campaign Friday.

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Men's Race Live Stream

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The University of Memphis cross country squads are competing in the 2018 NCAA South Region Championships in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday.

The women's 6k race kicks off the action at 7:30 a.m. (CT), followed by the men's 10k race at 8:30 a.m. (CT). Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee is hosting the NCAA South Region Championships for the fourth time in the last seven years (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018).

The Tigers men's team is taking six runners to Friday's regional race, and two runners on the women's side are competing.

Tigers Tidbits

Friday's NCAA South Region Championships is the first time the women's team has run the Apalachee Regional Park since 2016. That season, Memphis recorded the program's highest regional team finish with a 10^th-place performance. The Tigers also had two runners – Martina Rodriguez Sala and Chelsea Ladd – post top-20 finishes and earn NCAA All-South Region honors.
On the men's side, Friday's race is the program's first at Apalachee Regional Park since 2014. That campaign, the Tigers placed 18^thin the regional race.
Last season, the Tigers sent two women's runners, Arnica Zitting and Paige Sandwell, to compete in the region championships.
The last time Memphis sent a full men's team to the NCAA region championships was in 2015. The last time a full women's squad competed in the regional race was in 2016.
Senior Kristen Adams and junior Paige Sandwell are representing the Tigers women's team in Friday's NCAA South Region Championships.
It is Adams' second run in the NCAA South Region Championships, having last competed in 2014.
For Sandwell, Friday's appearance is her third-straight at the regional race. She ran the Apalachee Regional Park in 2016 and posted a 6k time of 23:13.6. In the 2017 regional race in Tuscaloosa, Sandwell finished just over a second off her personal-best time of 22:03.4 (PR is 22:02.0 at the 2017 Crimson Classic).
The six Tigers men's runners competing in Friday's race are: senior Matthew Viveiros, junior Matthew Kamph and freshmen Jessie Boyett, Payton Gleason, Tate Wyatt and Zachary Wyatt.
Friday's race is the first NCAA region championships appearance for all six runners.
All six Tigers also are running in their first collegiate 10k race of their careers Friday.