{"id":392549,"date":"2026-09-07T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392549\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:01:36","slug":"wildcats-pick-up-two-top-20-finishes-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392549\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats Pick Up Two Top 20 Finishes in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 B-CU cross country completed its first event of the season at the Florida Intercollegiate XC Invitational Friday evening at Cecil Field. The Wildcat men finished seventh overall while the women finished 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/bcuathletics.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/andrew-kiplagat\/11755\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11755\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kiplagat<\/a> picked up right were he left off last season with another strong showing Friday. He achieved a fourth-place finish with a time of 15:01.37, finishing just one second off third.<\/p>\n<p>Jayden Santos-Gonzales earned a top 20 finish for B-CU, recording a time of 15:21.19 in his first appearance with the Maroon &amp; Gold. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcuathletics.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/victor-chebii\/11757\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11757\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Chebii<\/a> finished 76th at 16:27.94.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcuathletics.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/lisel-ndlovu\/11775\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11775\" target=\"_blank\">Lisel Ndlovu<\/a> was the top performer on the women&#8217;s side, finishing\u00a068th with a time of 19:47.77, while <a href=\"https:\/\/bcuathletics.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/valencia-butler\/11766\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11766\" target=\"_blank\">Valencia Butler<\/a> was close behind at 80th (20:01.33).<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats will be back in action again on September 18th as they head to Tallahassee for the Florida State Pre Regional.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow Bethune-Cookman Track &amp; Field on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCUTrackXC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BCUTrackXC<\/a>) and Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bcuxctf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BCUXCTF<\/a>) for all of the latest news and updates. For all Bethune-Cookman Athletics news, follow us on Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bcuathletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BCUAthletics<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bcu_athletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BCU_Athletics<\/a>) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcuathletics.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BCUathletics.com<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 B-CU cross country completed its first event of the season at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-392549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}