NCAA Women's Division III Cross Country Championship
Sport | Cross country |
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Founded | 1981 |
Most recent champion(s) | Johns Hopkins |
TV partner(s) | FloTrack Media |
Official website | [1] |
The NCAA Women's Division III Cross Country Championship is an annual cross country meet to decide the team and individual national champions of women's NCAA Division III intercollegiate cross country running in the United States. It is held every fall, usually in November the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
The most successful programs are SUNY Cortland and Johns Hopkins, with seventh national titles. The current champions are Johns Hopkins, who won their seventh title in 2021.
Format[]
The race included 9 teams in 1981, 12 teams from 1982 to 1986, 14 teams from 1987 to 1992, 21 teams from 1993 to 1998 and 24 teams from 1999 to 2005. Beginning in 2006, the national championship race has included 32 teams. Teams compete in one of eight regional championships to qualify. In addition to the 32 teams, 56 individual runners qualify for the national championship.[1]
Champions[]
- The race distance was 5,000 meters (5 kilometers) from 1981 to 2001 and 6,000 meters (6 kilometers) from 2002 to the present.[2]
NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championship | |||||||||||
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Year | Finals Site (Host Team) |
Team Championship | Individual Championship | Records | Refs | ||||||
Winner | Points | Runner-up | Points | Winner (Team) |
Time | ||||||
1981 | Kenosha, WI (Carthage) |
Central (IA) | 26 | Glassboro State | 70 | (Westfield State) |
18:43.30† | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1982 | Fredonia, NY (Fredonia) |
St. Thomas (MN) | 44 | UW–La Crosse | 83 | (UW–La Crosse) |
18:45.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1983 | Newport News, VA (Christopher Newport) |
UW–La Crosse | 45 | St. Thomas (MN) | 70 | 16:29.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | ||||
1984 | Delaware, OH (Ohio Wesleyan) |
St. Thomas (MN) (2) | 50 | UW–La Crosse | 64 | (Macalester) |
17:23.55 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1985 | Atlanta, GA (Emory) |
Franklin & Marshall | 73 | St. Thomas (MN) | 81 | Dorcas Denhartog (Middlebury) |
18:05.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1986 | Fredonia, NY (Fredonia) |
St. Thomas (MN) (3) | 45 | Ithaca | 73 | (St. Thomas–MN) |
19:14.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1987 | Holland, MI (Hope) |
St. Thomas (MN) (4) UW–Oshkosh |
81 | Ithaca | 85 | (Carleton) |
17:36.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1988 | St. Louis, MO (Washington) |
UW–Oshkosh (2) | 69 | St. Thomas (MN) | 73 | (Carleton) |
17:38.60 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1989 | Rock Island, IL (Augustana–IL) |
Cortland State | 29 | UW–Oshkosh | 62 | (Cortland State) |
17:19.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1990 | Grinnell, IA (Grinnell) |
Cortland State (2) | 43 | UW–Oshkosh | 48 | (Cortland State) |
17:24.71 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1991 | Newport News, VA (Christopher Newport) |
UW–Oshkosh (2) | 98 | Cortland State | 103 | (UW–Oshkosh) |
17:21.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1992 | Schenectady, NY (Union) |
Cortland State (3) | 18 | Calvin | 108 | (Gustavus Adolphus) |
18:09.80 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1993 | Grinnell, IA (Grinnell) |
Cortland State (4) | 61 | Calvin | 93 | (Calvin) |
17:46.70 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1994 | Bethlehem, PA (Moravian) |
Cortland State (5) | 54 | Calvin | 115 | (Cortland State) |
17:47.20 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1995 | La Crosse, WI (UW–La Crosse) |
Cortland State (6) | 46 | UW–Oshkosh | 83 | (Williams) |
17:24.50 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1996 | Rock Island, IL (Augustana–IL) |
UW–Oshkosh (3) | 62 | St. Thomas (MN) | 113 | (Luther) |
17:40.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1997 | Cambridge, MA (MIT) |
Cortland State (7) | 148 | UW–Eau Claire | 167 | (UW–Oshkosh) |
18:29.00 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1998 | Carlisle, PA (Dickinson) |
Calvin | 124 | TCNJ | 170 | (Cortland State) |
17:48.39 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
1999 | Oshkosh, WI (UW–Oshkosh) |
Calvin (2) | 85 | Middlebury | 119 | (Chicago) |
16:46.20 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
2000 | Spokane, WA (Whitworth) |
Middlebury | 103 | Williams | 123 | (Luther) |
17:54.40 | Pomona-Pitzer Athletics | |||
2001 | Rock Island, IL (Augustana–IL) |
Middlebury (2) | 98 | Williams | 166 | (Puget Sound) |
16:46.00 | ||||
The race distance changes from 5 kilometers to 6 kilometers | |||||||||||
2002 | Northfield, MN (St. Olaf) |
Williams | 42 | Middlebury | 145 | (Wartburg) |
20:17.30† | ||||
2003 | Hanover, IN (Hanover) |
Middlebury (3) | 135 | Trinity (CT) | 174 | 20:00.20 | |||||
2004 | Eau Claire, WI (UW–Eau Claire) |
Williams (2) | 110 | Middlebury | 129 | 20:22.00 | |||||
2005 | Delaware, OH (Ohio Wesleyan) |
SUNY Geneseo | 88 | Williams | 107 | (Gustavus Adolphus) |
21:51.90 | ||||
2006 | Wilmington, OH (Wilmington) |
Middlebury (4) | 144 | Amherst | 145 | (Willamette) |
22:31.00 | ||||
2007 | Northfield, MN (St. Olaf) |
Amherst | 120 | Plattsburgh State | 159 | 20:54.00 | Results | [3][4] | |||
2008 | Hanover, IN (Hanover) |
Middlebury (5) | 179 | Calvin | 237 | (Bethel) |
20:43.91 | Results | [5][6] | ||
2009 | Berea, OH (Baldwin Wallace) |
UW–Eau Claire | 171 | St. Lawrence | 180 | (St. Lawrence) |
21:28.00 | Results | [7] | ||
2010 | Waverly, IA (Wartburg) |
Middlebury (6) | 185 | Washington University—St. Louis | 193 | 20:49.30 | Results | [8][9] | |||
2011 | Oshkosh, WI (UW–Oshkosh) |
Washington University—St. Louis | 70 | Middlebury | 111 | (Williams) |
20:52.08 | Results | [10][11] | ||
2012 | Terre Haute, IN (Rose-Hulman) |
Johns Hopkins | 158 | Wartburg | 221 | (UW–Oshkosh) |
20:53.30 | Delta Timing | [12][13] | ||
2013 | Hanover, IN (Hanover) |
Johns Hopkins (2) | 85 | Williams | 137 | (St. Scholastica) |
21:11.70 | TFRRS | [14][15][16] | ||
2014 | Wilmington, OH (Wilmington) |
Johns Hopkins (3) | 87 | MIT | 112 | (Stevens) |
20:51.90 | TFRRS | [17][18][19] | ||
2015 | Winneconne, WI (UW–Oshkosh) |
Williams | 81 | Geneseo State | 179 | Abrah Masterson (Cornell College) |
21:23.10 | TFRRS | [20][21][22] | ||
2016 | Louisville, KY (Louisville) |
Johns Hopkins (4) | 128 | Washington University—St. Louis | 202 | (Stevens Tech) |
20:16.40 | TFRRS | [23][24][25] | ||
2017 Details |
Elsah, IL (Principia) |
Johns Hopkins (5) | 96 | UW–Eau Claire | 191 | (Chicago) |
20:39.20 | TFRRS | [26][27][28] | ||
2018 Details |
Winneconne, WI (UW–Oshkosh) |
Washington University—St. Louis (2) | 98 | Johns Hopkins | 99 | (Washington University—St. Louis) |
20:55.00 | TFRRS | [29][30][31] | ||
2019 Details |
Louisville, KY (Spalding) |
Johns Hopkins (6) | 125 | Washington University—St. Louis | 138 | Parley Hannan Ithaca College |
20:53.8 | TFRRS | [32][33][34] | ||
2020 | Not held because of the COVID-19 pandemic[35] | ||||||||||
2021 | Louisville, KY (Spalding) |
Johns Hopkins (7) | 130 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 132 | Kassie Rosenblum | 20:11.1 | TFRRS | [36][37][38] | ||
2022 | Lansing, MI (Olivet) |
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2023 | Carlisle, PA (Dickinson) |
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2024 | Terre Haute, IN (Rose–Hulman) |
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2025 | Spartanburg, SC (Converse) |
- A † indicates a then-NCAA record-setting time for that particular distance.
- A time highlighted in ██ indicates the all-time NCAA championship record for that distance.
Summary[]
Team titles[]
Rank | Team | Titles | Years |
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1 | SUNY Cortland | 7 | 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 |
Johns Hopkins | 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 | ||
3 | Middlebury | 6 | 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010 |
4 | Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 4 | 1987, 1988, 1991, 1996 |
St. Thomas (MN) | 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987 | ||
6 | Williams | 3 | 2002, 2004, 2015 |
7 | Washington–Saint Louis | 2 | 2011, 2018 |
Calvin | 1998, 1999 | ||
9 | Wisconsin–Eau Claire | 1 | 2009 |
Amherst | 2007 | ||
SUNY Geneseo | 2005 | ||
Franklin & Marshall | 1985 | ||
Wisconsin–La Crosse | 1983 | ||
Central (IA) | 1981 |
See also[]
- NCAA Women's Cross Country Championships (Division I, Division II)
- NCAA Men's Cross Country Championships (Division I, Division II, Division III)
- Pre-NCAA Cross Country Champions
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External links[]
- NCAA Cross Country Championships
- Women's sports competitions in the United States
- Women's athletics competitions