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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (theACC.com) – NC State has consistently been part of the national women’s cross country conversation, and the Wolfpack got in the final word Saturday morning.
Placing five women among the top 32 runners and totaling 84 points, NC State took home the program’s first NCAA Division I Women’s Cross Country Championship on a near-perfect race day at Apalachee Regional Park.
The NCAA championship is the third for the Atlantic Coast Conference in women’s cross country but the first since Virginia claimed back-to-back titles in 1981 and 1982. The national title is the third overall for NC State, which claimed back-to-back AIAW championships in 1979 and 1980.
Wolfpack sophomore Kelsey Chmiel placed sixth overall and led all ACC runners with her 6K time of 19:34.6. NC State received additional All-America (top-40) finishes from Katelyn Tuohy (15th, 19:43.1), Alexandra Hays (22nd, 19:48.2), Hannah Steelman (24th,19:49.6) and Samantha Bush (32nd, 19:52.9).
NC State, under the watch of veteran head coach and former Wolfpack All-American Laurie Henes, made its NCAA-leading 35th appearance in the NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championship field. Saturday marked the program’s 16th top-10 NCAA finish and the sixth in the last seven years. It was the Wolfpack’s 12th top-five NCAA finish and ninth podium (top-four) finish.
NC State finished 38 points ahead of second-place BYU (122). Notre Dame placed fifth in the team scoring with 215 points, buoyed by a ninth-place finish by Maddy Denner (19:37.7) and an 11th-place showing by Olivia Markezich (19:38).
Florida State’s Lauren Ryan (19:50.1) took 26th place to give the ACC a total of eight women’s All-Americans.
North Carolina (405 points) placed third among ACC teams at 14th in the overall scoring, followed by 19th-place Florida State (468) and 30th-place Syracuse (768).
On the men’s side, Notre Dame placed ninth with 290 points and was followed by Wake Forest with 356 to give the ACC two teams among the top 10. They were followed by 18th-place North Carolina (460), 19th-place Syracuse (485) and 20th-place Florida State (517).
Following up on last season’s second-place NCAA finish, FSU’s Adriaan Wildschutt again led all ACC runners on Saturday with his 10K time of 28:52 that placed sixth. Notre Dame’s Dylan Jacobs took 10th place at 28:57.5.
Four more ACC men earned All-America status with Wake Forest’s Zach Facioni placing 19th at 29:19.2, followed by FSU’s Ahmed Muhumed (20th, 29:19.9), North Carolina’s Parker Wolfe (28th, 29:25.8) and Notre Dame’s Danny Kilrea (31st, 29:28).
Florida State served as the host school for the 2021 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships. It was the second DI NCAA National Championship hosted by FSU and the first since the 1996 women’s tennis national championships. It marked the fifth time that the NCAA Cross Country Championships were hosted by a current ACC school and the first since Louisville welcomed the event in 2017.