NCAA South/Southeast Regional Championships Website


The Emory University men's and women's cross country teams head into the homestretch of the season on Saturday (Nov. 15) when they compete at the NCAA South/Southeast Region Championships.  This year's competitions will be held at the Clara Bowl Course at Berry College.  The men's 8K race begins at 9:30 am, followed by the women's 6K at 11:00 am. 

There are eight regional championships being conducted around the country with the top two men's and women's teams from each regional earning automatic bids to the NCAA National Championships on Saturday, Nov. 22, in Mason,  Ohio.  In addition, there will be 16 at-large teams selected for both the men's and women's championships.  Approximately 29 men’s and 30 women’s teams, along with a host of individual competitors, will be taking part in this year’s South/Southeast Regional competition.

The Emory women's team, ranked 23^rd nationally and first in the region, has enjoyed considerable success at the NCAA Regionals, logging first-place efforts in 17 of the past 23 seasons.  In 2013, the Eagles ventured to Newport News, Va., and finished runner-up in a 27-team field with 76 points, trailing only Trinity University’s top mark of 36 points.  The Eagles saw all five of their scorers earn all-region kudos by virtue of finishing among the top 35, led by Tamara Surtees who paced the team while placing sixth overall out of 193 entries.    

The Emory’s men’s team, currently the top-ranked program in the region, posted a second-place effort out of 24 squads a year ago that enabled the Eagles to advance to nationals for the first time since 2009.  Current members of the team, seniors Tyler Cooke and Alex Fleischhacker, were all-region performers with the pair finishing 13^th and 22^nd, respectively, out of 174 runners.