Tartans Earn Fifth Straight Automatic Bid to NCAA Championships

(INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.) – By winning the 2023 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship this past Saturday, the Carnegie Mellon University men's cross country team automatically qualified for the 2023 NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championships which will be held at Big Spring High School in Newville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, November 18. It marks the Tartans' ninth straight team appearance at the championships and 16th in the last 17 years.

Carnegie Mellon won its regional meet for the fifth straight time and did so this year by placing all seven runners in the top 12, including the champion of the race, graduate student Matthew Porter. The Tartans, who won the program's seventh regional championship since 2008, will enter the meet ranked fifth nationally.

Five Tartans on this year's regional championship team competed at last year's NCAA Championships where the Tartans placed 11th, their best finish under nine-year head coach Tim Connelly.

The men's race will begin at 11:00 a.m. with the women's race set to start at 12:00 p.m.