Browsing: Big 12 Cross-Country Championships

Baylor’s cross country will host the Big 12 cross country championship on Saturday. The meet will take place at the Cottonwood Creek Golf Course in Waco. Men and women’s cross country teams will compete in the race. In their last meet of the regular season, women’s cross country placed 31st as a team while the men came in 49th. Junior Rachel Johnson and senior Brad Miles led their teams, placing 59 and 198 respectively.

In the 17th-annual Big 12 Cross-Country Championships at the Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin, the Baylor men’s and women’s teams placed seventh and eighth respectively.

The men’s team earned its highest finish this weekend since 2004. Junior Brad Miles led the Baylor team with a 44th-place finish, covering the 8,000-meter course in 25:24.1.

The women’s race was highlighted by sophomore Rachel Johnson’s All-Big 12 finish. Johnson had Baylor’s 19th All-Big 12 performance in the 17-year history of the event.