Beadlescomb and Magness Earn All-American Honors at NCAA Cross Country Championships

Saturday, November 20

Tallahassee, Fla.

10 a.m. ET

Michigan State University

NCAA Championships

Photo by: Ben Sheehan

Beadlescomb and Magness Earn All-American Honors at NCAA Cross Country Championships

11/20/2021 1:45:00 PM | Cross Country

Results

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – After falling behind the lead pack midway through the race, graduate student Morgan Beadlescomb recovered and made a late push to take fifth in the men's 10K race at the 2021 NCAA Championships, as the Michigan State men's and women's cross country teams completed their seasons Saturday morning at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.

Beadlescomb's performance helped the men place 30th, while senior Jenna Magness took 14th earlier in the women's 6K race to lead the Spartan women to a 16th-place finish. The top-40 finishes earned both Beadlescomb and Magness distinction as NCAA All-Americans, marking the third-straight All-America honor for Beadlescomb and the second-consecutive All-America season for Magness.

In the MSU women's 21st-straight appearance at the NCAAs, Magness posted a personal record time of 19:42.1 in her 14th-place finish, two spots better than her placement at the 2020 NCAA Championships, while graduate student Lynsie Gram finished in 48th with a 20:03.2 PR time. Big Ten Freshman of the Year Kaitlyn Hynes was next at 20:43.8, taking 133rd, while junior Katie Osika was behind her in 146th at 20:46.8. Sophomore Makenna Veen and redshirt junior Makayla Perez finished back-to-back in 197th and 198th, as Veen posted a 21:10.5 time and Perez had a 21:10.9 time. Rounding out the Spartans was junior Melanie Helder, who finished in 21:57.6 to place 236th.

Beadlescomb posted the best NCAA finish by a Spartan men's runner since Herb Lindsay placed fourth in 1976, as Beadlescomb ran a 10K PR time of 28:50.6 to hold off host Florida State's Adriaan Wildschutt by 1.4 seconds. A 31:03.0 time by redshirt junior Abdi Ahmed placed him 188th, and senior John Petruno finished 197th at 31:08.2. Sophomore Brendan Favazza finished in 200th at 31:09.3, while fellow sophomore Andrew Nolan ran a 31:36.7 in his first collegiate 10K race to place 221st. Junior James Uhlenberg was 229th at 31:48.2 and Fraser Wilson was the final Spartan to cross at 32:05.3 (234th).

North Carolina State was crowned the 2021 women's national champion, placing five runners in the top-26 and earning 84 points, while Northern Arizona won its second consecutive men's national title by having five runners place in the top-35 (92 points). BYU claimed both individual championships, as Whittni Orton placed first in the women's race at 19:25.4 and Conner Mantz won his second-straight NCAA men's race with a 28:33.1 time.