{"id":59956,"date":"2025-11-21T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59956\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:53:18","slug":"xc-trio-set-for-ncaa-nationals-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59956\/","title":{"rendered":"XC trio set for NCAA Nationals Saturday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Titus Kimaru<\/a>, Victor Kipkoech<\/a> and Lily Mather<\/a> will represent Texas Tech at the 2025 NCAA Cross Country National Championships Saturday morning at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia, Mo.<\/p>\n

The women’s 6k race will kick off the meet beginning at 9:20 a.m. CT as the men’s 10k race will follow right after at 10:10 a.m. CT.<\/p>\n

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Kimaru has paced the men’s squad throughout the season. In his first 10k race at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championship, he turned in a time of 30:13.6 to finish ninth overall. Meanwhile, Kipkoech, turned some heads as he placed 13th with a 10k time of 30:22.1<\/p>\n

When it comes to the women’s team, Mather has been the leader from the start. In five 6k races this season, she’s finished inside the top 30 and holds a PB time of 20:04.1. At the mountain regional, her time of 21:07.4 was good enough for 24th as she secured one of the final individuals at-large selections.<\/p>\n

The top 40 runners in Saturday’s race will earn All-American honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Titus Kimaru, Victor Kipkoech and Lily Mather will represent Texas Tech at the 2025 NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-59956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59956","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=59956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}