Men's Cross Country | 8/7/2025 5:09:00 PM
The Cloud County Community College men's and women's cross country programs have revealed their meet schedules for the 2025 season.
The T-Birds will compete in their first event on Saturday, September 6 at the 77th annual JK Gold Classic in Wichita, Kansas. The meet, hosted by Wichita State University, will be held at Clapp Cross Country Course. The men's course will be a 6k race, beginning at 8 am, while the women will compete in a 5k race starting at 8:30 am.
Cloud County will return to Lincoln, Nebraska to race in the Woody Greeno/Jay Dirksen Invitational on Saturday, September 20. The meet is co-hosted by Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This will be the seventh year that the race, named after long time coaches Woody Greeno (Nebraska Wesleyan) and Jay Dirksen (University of Nebraska), has been run at Mahoney Park Golf Course. This will be the first 8k race of the season for the men's team at 10 am, while the women will remain at a 5k pace at 10:50 am.
The T-Birds will compete in the 37th annual Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival hosted by the University of Arkansas on Saturday, October 4. One of the premier running events in America, the men's collegiate race will begin at 11:25 am, with the women's collegiate race to follow at 12:10 pm.
Cloud County will take part in the Fort Hays State University Tiger Open on Saturday, October 11. Hosted at the Fort Hays State University Tiger Cross Country Course, the men's 8k race starts at 9:15 am, while the women's 5k race begins at 10 am.
The T-Birds will head to Colby, Kansas to begin their postseason run at the 2025 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference/NJCAA Region 6 Cross Country Championship meet on Friday, October 24 at Meadow Creek Golf Course. The men's and women's teams both will look to improve from their top five finishes at last year's KJCCC/Region 6 Championships.
Cloud County will continue postseason competition at the 2025 NJCAA Division I Cross Country Championships at Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Saturday, November 8, while the NJCAA men's and women's Half Marathon Championships will be held on the same on course on Tuesday, November 11.
