Meet Preview: Falcons Open Up 2024 Campaign at Akron’s 55th Annual Tommy Evans Invitational
Bowling Green, Ohio -- The Falcons will begin the 2024 campaign at the 55th Annual Tommy Evans Invitational hosted by the University of Akron at Silver Creek Cross Country Park in Norton, Ohio. The women's 5K race will start first at 6:15 p.m. while the men's 6K run will follow at approximately 6:45 p.m.
Last season marked the first time in recent years that BG competed at the meet, as the women's team won it in a field of 16 teams led by Kailee Perry's 17:50.4 first-place 5K time.
Please see the links below for spectator information:
Meet Information:
https://gozips.com/documents/2024/8/27/Tommy_Evans_Fall_24_Meet_Info8-26-24.pdf
Live Results Link:
https://finishtiming.trackscoreboard.com/
Spectator Parking Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/41.014097,+-81.687658?entry=tts&shorturl=1
Handicap Parking Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/41.011198,+-81.687266?entry=tts&shorturl=1
Women's 5K Course Map:
https://gozips.com/documents/2024/8/26/tommyevans5K-women.2024.pdf
Men's 6K Course Map:
https://gozips.com/documents/2024/8/26/tommyevans6K-men.2024.pdf
Teams Competing:
Akron (M/W), Bowling Green (M/W), Butler (M/W), Cincinnati (M/W), Cleveland State (W), Eastern Michigan (M/W), Kent State (M/W), Mount Union (M/W), Oakland (M/W), Ohio U. (M/W), Ohio State (M/W), Youngstown State (M/W)
BG Men's Cross Country Season Preview:
https://bgsufalcons.com/news/2024/8/28/mens-cross-country-season-preview-falcons-fearing-no-one-in-2024
BG Women's Cross Country Season Preview:
https://bgsufalcons.com/news/2024/8/28/womens-cross-country-womens-cross-country-season-preview-core-returners-look-to-continue-consistency
Follow The Falcons
Be sure to follow the Falcons cross country teams throughout the season on social media.
Twitter – @BGAthletics and @BGSUXCTF
Instagram – 'bgfalcons' and 'BGSUXCTF'
Facebook – 'BGSU Athletics'
YouTube – 'Falcon Athletics'
Latest Men's Cross Country News
- Women Place First and Men Finish Sixth while Hosting Falcon InvitationalBOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green men's and women's cross-country teams raced a strong finish at the Falcon Invite which was hosted by Bowling Green. Notably, on the women's side, the Falcons finished in first place for the second year in a row. While, on the men's side, BGSU finished sixth overall.
- BGSU Cross Country Program Dedicates Distance Markers At Mel Brodt Cross Country CourseBOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Back on Saturday, August 31, the Bowling Green cross country program celebrated the dedication of 13 granite distance markers at the Mel Brodt Cross Country Course.
- Meet Preview: Cross Country Welcomes In 15 Schools For Falcon InvitationalBOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- At last, the Bowling Green cross country program will host the Falcon Invitational on Friday, October 18 at BGSU's own Mel Brodt Cross Country Course on campus in their last regular season meet.
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- Meet Preview: Cross Country Treks Their Way To Lehigh For 50th Paul Short RunBOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- The BGSU men's and women's cross country teams will head about eight hours east to Bethlehem, Pa. for the Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh at the Goodman Campus Cross Country Course on Saturday, October 5.
- Three PRs Accentuate Bowling Green's Performance At George Dales InvitationalKALAMAZOO, Mich. – Four runners competed for the Bowling Green men's cross country team on a sunny, 75-degree day at The Prairies Golf Club in Kalamazoo at the George Dales Invitational, and three earned PRs.