Bellevue University head cross country coach Craig Christians announced the first signee for the 2022 men's cross country class with the addition of Richard Marcoux (Omaha, Neb./North Iowa Area CC/Omaha North HS).
Josè Luiz Barbosa, a Brazilian native and former Olympic 800-meter distance runner, joined the Bellevue University cross country and track teams this week as an assistant coach, stated Bruin head coach Craig Christians.
Freshman Madison Nelson became BU’s first national qualifier in the marathon at Saturday’s Midland Half Marathon in Fremont. Temperatures around 40 degrees and a stiff breeze greeted the field of 65 runners from NAIA schools from Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. The course is laid out to give the runners a tailwind for most of the distance and 20 men and a dozen women met qualifying standards.
Freshman Peyton Anthony and senior Chris Casart became the first two Bruin men in program history to compete in the NAIA Cross Country National Championships.
Led by three Bruin men who were named all-Conference, the Bruin men’s cross country team rose to the runner-up spot at today’s NSAA Cross Country Championship. This was the Bruin’s best finish as a team in their short four-season existence, bettering a fourth-place showing in 2019. The Bruins posted a team score of 59 (sum of their first five runners finishing places) to edge Dickinson State by two points. The Dakota State men put four runners into the Top Ten and tallied a team score of 40 points, advancing them to the NAIA National Championship on November 19 in Ft. Vancouver, Wash.
Four members of the Bruin's men's cross country team used Saturday's Mount Marty Invite as a final tune-up for the NSAA Championship in two weeks. The Bruins were without a full squad as runners were held out to address injury issues in hopes of having them back to race in two weeks.
Several breakthrough performances highlighted a very strong effort by the Bruin men at Saturday’s Holiday Inn Express Cross Country Classic hosted by Dordt University. A quality field of runners traversed the three loops of the Dordt Prairie, highlighted by a dominating performance by the No. 13 ranked Dordt men. The Defenders placed all seven of their runners in the top ten for a low team total of 18 with just one Northwestern Iowa runner breaking up the perfect 1-2-3-4-5 score. The Bruins, despite running without their usual third man, placed a solid fifth place among the nine complete teams.
Senior Desyebelew Debesh has been named the North Star Athletic Association's Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week for his performance last week in the Briar Cliff Invitational.
The Bruins’ five scorers averaged 27:32 for eight kilometers, easily the best team clocking in program history. As was the case last week, the Bruins were barely edged from the third team spot as conference foe Dakota State defeated them 116 to 120.
Casart recorded a personal record time of 27:00.8 to place 92nd in the Greeno/Dirksen Invitational, hosted by NCAA Division I Nebraska and NCAA Division III Nebraska Wesleyan. The men's 8K race featured seven teams from NCAA Division I. He was sixth best among NAIA entrants in the race.
The Bruin men finished in 12th place among 17 Gold division teams. The Gold division was won by past NJCAA champion Iowa Central CC with three men in the top six while Wichita State won the Red Division handily over runner-up Air Force.
Freshman Peyton Anthony and senior Chris Casart finished in 10th and 11th respectively to lead the Bruin men in their cross country season opener at the Bill Buxton Invitational hosted by Simpson College. Anthony covered the 6-kilometer course in 20:12.7 with Casart right behind in 20:18.7.
Marcoux becomes first signee in 2022 class
January 13, 2022Bellevue University head cross country coach Craig Christians announced the first signee for the 2022 men's cross country class with the addition of Richard Marcoux (Omaha, Neb./North Iowa Area CC/Omaha North HS).
