{"id":40154,"date":"2025-11-07T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40154\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:49:07","slug":"lcu-competing-at-ncaa-south-central-regional-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40154\/","title":{"rendered":"LCU Competing at NCAA South Central Regional Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        By: Everett Corder (everett.corder@lcu.edu)&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 LUBBOCK, Texas (November 7, 2025) \u2013 The Lubbock Christian men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country teams will compete at the South Central Cross Country Regional Championship on Saturday at Walking Stick Golf Course in Pueblo, Colorado.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s 6K race will start at 11 a.m. MT (Noon CT) and the men&#8217;s 10K race will follow at 12:15 p.m. MT (1:15 CT).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe top three teams automatically qualify from each of the eight regions, for a total of 24 teams. Ten additional teams were selected at-large. A minimum of 24 additional individuals can be selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBoth LCU teams were unable to compete at the regional meet in Colorado last season, as inclement weather kept them from traveling.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLubbock Christian&#8217;s men are coming of a solid sixth-place finish at the Lone Star Conference Championships, which was the highest by the Chaps since 2019, when they placed second.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/alfons-rawall\/4839\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4839\" target=\"_blank\">Alfons Rawall<\/a> was the top finisher, posting a new 8K personal best with a time of 25:52.26. Rawall also paced the Chaps at their season-opening meet in Lubbock. In Rawall&#8217;s only official 10K race he has run in college (in his freshman year) he completed the course with a time of 34:45.9.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Chaps also got strong performances at the conference meet from <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/gavin-morrison\/4842\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4842\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Morrison<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/samuel-bryan\/4834\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4834\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Bryan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/matthew-gordon\/4843\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4843\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Gordon<\/a>, who all finished in the 30s. Morrison&#8217;s 8K time was the best of his collegiate career.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the Lady Chaps, the LSC Championships saw an eighth place finish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLCU&#8217;s women have been led all season by graduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/olivia-weider\/4829\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4829\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Weider<\/a>, who is running cross country this year after a career with the Lady Chap soccer team. She posted a new 6K personal best at the conference meet with a time of 22:19.77, earning All-Conference honors with a 12th place finish.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBrooke Moorelock was LCU&#8217;s second finisher at the conference meet with her best time of the 2025 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTwo other seniors join Weider on the team \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/amy-tew\/4828\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4828\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Tew<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lcuchaps.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/kylie-knapp\/4823\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"4823\" target=\"_blank\">Kylie Knapp<\/a> \u2013 who both placed in the 50s at the LSC Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; By: Everett Corder (everett.corder@lcu.edu)&#13; &#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; LUBBOCK, Texas (November 7, 2025) \u2013 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-40154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}