Full NCAA XC results
Molly Seidel of Notre Dame won the NCAA women's cross country championship, running 19:28.6 for 6k in Louisville. That makes her the first woman ever to win the Foot Locker and NCAA titles, breaking a "curse" that stretched back thirty years. Seidel is also the defending outdoor 10K champion.
This was the year that the curse was in the most danger in recent memory. Three recent champions were serious contenders for the crown--2011 FL champ Seidel, 2010 winner Aisling Cuffe of Stanford, and 2012 and 2014 winner Anna Rohrer, also of Notre Dame. Rohrer was sixth, while Cuffe struggled with an injury and finished in 117th. This year's field skewed particularly young, as two freshmen finished in the top six. In addition to Rohrer, Allie Ostrander of Boise State ran 19:33.6 for second place.
Ostrander and Seidel ran side by side for most of the race before the Notre Dame senior made her move in the final thousand meters. Earlier in the race, the pack was Ostrander, Seidel, and Arkansas's Dominique Scott, but Ostrander and Seidel dropped Scott.
The Boise State freshman was not a candidate to break the Foot Locker curse, as the Alaskan never raced Foot Locker in high school. She did, however, win NXN last December.
New Mexico won the team title with 49 points, the lowest score since 1982.
Edward Cheserek won the men's race, becoming the first man ever to win three straight NCAA cross country titles.
