{"id":53855,"date":"2025-11-15T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:15:20","slug":"mens-cross-country-with-highest-finish-since-2011-at-ncaa-west-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53855\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Cross Country With Highest Finish Since 2011 At NCAA West Regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2013 Competing at the NCAA West Regionals in Sacramento, Long Beach State closed out their season with their highest Men&#8217;s finish since 2011, placing 16th out of the 34 competing teams at the meet.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Beach was led by junior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/levi-taylor\/9598\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9598\" target=\"_blank\">Levi Taylor<\/a>, who rebounded after the Big West Championships with a strong performance at the West Regionals, finishing with a 10K PR of 30.57.5 to place 75th overall. Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/cameron-rhone\/9595\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9595\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Rhone<\/a> was just behind, taking 82nd overall. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/cristian-martinez\/9592\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9592\" target=\"_blank\">Cristian Martinez<\/a> smashed his 10K best to take 105th, while <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/cameron-gill\/9590\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9590\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Gill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/miles-jones\/9601\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9601\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Jones<\/a> closed out Long Beach State&#8217;s scoring runners as the Beach had their best finish in 14 years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn the women&#8217;s side, Long Beach State senior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/alyssa-tapanes\/9597\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9597\" target=\"_blank\">Alyssa Tapanes<\/a> continued her strong finish to the season, crossing as the top finisher for the Beach with a 6K time of 21:47. <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/marikay-schwab\/9596\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9596\" target=\"_blank\">Marikay Schwab<\/a> was next at 22:07.6, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/jadyn-palaschuk\/9593\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9593\" target=\"_blank\">Jadyn Palaschuk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/brooke-willoughby\/9600\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9600\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Willoughby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/darcy-ray\/9604\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9604\" target=\"_blank\">Darcy Ray<\/a>. Overall the women&#8217;s program finished in 26th out of 39 participating teams. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2013 Competing at the NCAA West Regionals in Sacramento, Long Beach State closed out their season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-53855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}