[Women's Results]
MONMOUTH, Ore. -
Chico State and
Cal Poly Pomona took the top two places at the NCAA West Regional to punch their tickets to the NCAA Championships.
Chico State won its second consecutive regional championship with 40 points as all five scoring runners placed in the top-12 for the Wildcats on the 6k Ash Preserve Course. The Broncos earned second place, after coming into the regional ranked eighth in the West, with 86 points as all five of its scoring runners placed in the top 30. Chico and CPP were the only two teams in the field to finish with under 100 points.
Stanislaus State might have a shot at an at-large bid for the second straight season after placing fifth with 182 points. Last year the Warriors also placed fifth and later received an invitation to the national championships.
Twelve CCAA runners earned All-Region honors, giving the conference nearly half of the 25 regional awards. Chico State's
Iresh Molina and Cal Poly Pomona's
Vivian Martinez finished second and third to pace their squads. They finished only 0.17 seconds apart (20:32.54 to 20:32.71) as Molina was able to hold off a late push from Martinez.
Chico State's
Megan Malloy took sixth place with a personal-record time of 20:43.00 and lead a group of Wildcats that would take three of the next six places. The CCAA Freshman of the Year,
Paulina Martins placed ninth (20:53.13),
Sienna Bianchi took 11th (20:58.92) and
Olivia Beschorner finished 12th (20:59.36). All three also posted career-best times in the 6k.
Stanislaus State's
Annie Wild earned all-region honors for the second consecutive season. The junior finished seventh with a time of 20:44.17. Cal Poly Pomona placed another runner in the top 10 as
Galilea Jimenez posted a time of 20:56.7 to place 10th. Cal State San Marcos'
Angela McManus improved 33 places from last year's regional to earn all-region honors for the first time in her career (21:00.51).
Two more Broncos collected all-region honors as
Alondra Arias placed 20th (21:08.67) and
Miranda Palacios 24th (21:15.63).
A sixth Chico State runner, the 2025 CCAA Newcomer of the Year,
Kira Forsberg collected all-region honors with a 21st-place finish.
Biola's Bethany Mapes won the regional championship with a time of 20:29.31. Western Washington, the GNAC Champions, earned an automatic bid to the national championship along with Chico and Cal Poly Pomona by placing third with 140 points. Biola placed fourth with 163 points and Stanislaus State was fifth to round out the top 5.
The top three teams from each NCAA Division II regional meet automatically qualify for the national championship. For individual qualifiers, the top two finishers who are not on an automatically qualifying team earn a spot, along with all other individuals who finish in the top five at the regional and are not on a qualifying team.
The NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Cross Country Committee will announce at-large team and individual selections on Monday, Nov. 10, at 5 p.m. EST on
www.ncaa.com, to complete the championship field.
TEAM RESULTS
| Place |
School |
Points |
| 1 |
Chico State |
36 |
| 2 |
Cal Poly Pomona |
89 |
| 3 |
Western Washington |
140 |
| 4 |
Biola (Calif.) |
163 |
| 5 |
Stanislaus State |
182 |
| 6 |
Point Loma |
237 |
| 7 |
Seattle Pacific |
252 |
| 8 |
Concordia Irvine (CUI) |
283 |
| 9 |
Simon Fraser |
287 |
| 10 |
Vanguard (CA) |
307 |
| 11 |
Central Washington |
308 |
| 12 |
Alaska Anchorage |
324 |
| 13 |
Cal State San Marcos |
327 |
| 14 |
Northwest Nazarene |
377 |
| 15 |
Fresno Pacific |
391 |
| 16 |
Cal State Monterey Bay |
412 |
| 17 |
Western Oregon |
477 |
| 18 |
Azusa Pacific |
480 |
| 19 |
Alaska |
494 |
| 20 |
Cal Poly Humboldt |
512 |
| 21 |
Cal State East Bay |
531 |
| 22 |
Cal State San Bernardino |
563 |
| 23 |
San Francisco State |
639 |
| 24 |
Hawaii Hilo |
669 |
| 25 |
Montana State-Billings |
701 |
| 26 |
Saint Martin's |
743 |
| 27 |
Chaminade |
776 |
| 28. |
Cal State LA |
873 |