LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Mountain West cross country runners are set to compete in the NCAA Regional Championships on Friday, Nov. 13. The MW will be represented by eight institutions across two regional sites, with five programs competing at the NCAA Mountain Regional and three programs competing at the NCAA West Regional.
 
Air Force, Nevada, New Mexico, UTEP, and Wyoming are headed to the NCAA Mountain Regional, while Grand Canyon, Hawai‘I and UC Davis will compete at the NCAA West Regional.
 
The Mountain Regional is hosted by New Mexico at the UNM North Golf Course in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while the West Regional is hosted by Sacramento State at the Arcade Creek Cross Country Course in Sacramento, California.
 
The top two teams from each of the nine regional championship sites, as well as the top four individuals not on an advancing team, will receive an automatic berth to the national meet. The remainder of the 32-team field and individual qualifiers are chosen on an at-large basis. The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Championships will take place on Saturday, Nov. 21, at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center in Terre Haute, Indiana.
 
At the 2026 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Cross Country Championships presented by Palms in Reno, Nevada, on Oct. 30, the nation’s No. 1 ranked team, the New Mexico men, swept the top five spots for a perfect score of 15. Lobo senior Evans Kiplagat used a late kick to capture the men's individual title with a time of 22:54.3, followed by freshman Pasanjo Kitonga with a runner-up time of 22:56.1. Junior Collins Kiprotich(23:00.2) came in third, while junior Vincent Chirchir (23:09.3) took fourth and sophomore Joshua Abraham (23:32.9) finished in fifth.
 
With the top-five sweep, the Lobo men extended their MW Championship win streak to three consecutive years, marking their 10th title overall. Air Force finished second as a team with 54 points, led by All-MW Second Team performer Auge Martin, while Wyoming took third with 84 points.

On the women’s side, New Mexico junior standout Pamela Kosgei won her third straight Mountain West individual title in Reno on Oct. 30, becoming the first woman in league history to capture three consecutive cross country gold medals and the first to run a sub-19-minute 6K at the Championship meet with a time of 18:49.4. The New Mexico women captured the MW Championship for a third consecutive year—and for the 18th time in the last 19 years—after scoring 19 points and placing five runners in the top seven.
 
Wyoming finished second at the MW Championship with 55 points, led by senior Eowyn Dalbec who placed fifth overall in 20:16.7, while Air Force took third with 58 points behind fourth-place finisher Ella Johnson (20:13.9).
 
Heading into regionals, the New Mexico men and women headline the Mountain West in the USTFCCCA National Coaches’ Poll, with the men spending multiple weeks ranked No. 1 in the nation during the 2026 campaign and the women holding steady in the top 10 all season long.
 
For the Mountain Regional, the women’s 6k will begin at 11 a.m. MT followed by the men’s 10k at 12 p.m. MT. The West Regional will take off with the women’s 6k at 9 a.m. PT and the men’s 10k at 10 a.m. PT.

For live results of the Mountain Regional click here and for the West Regional click here.