No. 1 Florida women\u2019s cross country has advanced to the NCAA Championship following a victory in the NCAA South Regional on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gator runners Hilda Olemomoi and Judy Chepkoech finished in the top five, each completing the 6k competition in under 19 minutes and 15 seconds. Tia Wilson, Claire Stegall and Bethan Morley placed among the top 25. UF women\u2019s team ended with a score of 52, with Tennessee 49 points behind. This marks the Florida women\u2019s first regional title since 2009.<\/p>\n
Only two weeks ago, the team secured the SEC Championship, the eighth for the program.<\/p>\n
As for the Florida men\u2019s cross country team, freshman Kelvin Cheruiyot finished in first place with a time of 29:09.05 in the NCAA South Regional 10k. The victory is Cheruiyot\u2019s third top finish in his last four meets, and advances him to the NCAA Championship.<\/p>\n
He was named the 2025 SEC Men\u2019s Individual Champion<\/a> after winning at the SEC Cross Country Championships, where he finished an 8k in 23:08.26. His victory secured Florida\u2019s first individual men\u2019s SEC championship since 1983, with Cheruiyot becoming only the fourth man in program history to win the honor.<\/p>\n \u201cThe race was good. We started off well,\u201d Cheruiyot said after winning the SEC. \u201cThe 4k was somewhat difficult, but I managed to stay with the guys and they pushed me and after (the) 6k, I (said) \u2018I\u2019m going to do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The NCAA Championship will be on Saturday Nov. 22 in Columbia, Missouri.<\/p>\n Category: Gator Sports<\/a>, Gators Cross Country<\/a>, NCAA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 1 Florida women\u2019s cross country has advanced to the NCAA Championship following a victory in the NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,2530,30,29,3111,30719,23265,23266,23267,30720,3112,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-47184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-gators","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-gators","13":"tag-gators-cross-country","14":"tag-hilda-olemomoi","15":"tag-judy-chepkoech","16":"tag-kelvin-cheruiyot","17":"tag-ncaa-championship","18":"tag-not-latest","19":"tag-sec"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184","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=47184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}