cross country schedule

Thank you to everyone who made our 2026 cross country season a success!! We're so proud of all of the hard work that everyone put into this season, and loved seeing how much everyone grew from August until now. Thank you especially to all of our board members who worked behind the scenes to get everyone where they needed to be and make sure we were all prepared. Be sure to say thanks to our distance VPs (Lauren Fligge and Nathan Phillips), travel coordinator (Lauren Tears), meet coordinator (Aimon Van Houten), treasurer (Wil Lackner) and president (Jacob Alejandro) when you see them! Enjoy this time in the offseason, and we'll be back for indoor track before you know it.

• Badger Classic: Shoutout to all the Cows who braved the weather delays to kick off their season at Badger Classic!! WTC took home the world record and showed out against some incredible D1 competition. Find results here.
• Lakeshore Time Trial: Congratulations to everyone who dodged the bikes last Friday on the Lakeshore Path! It was great to watch everyone kick off their season so strongly. Congrats to crusty cow Adam Kitay on the win in 15:18.37!! You can find results here.
• UWO Fall Titan Classic: The Cows were tragically unable to race this week, but we'll come back better than ever at Border Battle next weekend.
• Border Battle: IT'S A WTC SWEEP!!!! Congratulations to everyone who raced (especially to everyone who raced for the first time!) and brought home the win for both the men's and women's teams. Dasha Vorontsov (1st), Ryann Wagner (2nd), Claire Matthai (3rd), Selin Guress (4th), and Mara Larson (5th), scored for the women, and Mason Weber (1st), Jack Krusinski (2nd), Adam Kitay (3rd), Nathan Simon (4th), and Jacob Alejandro (5th) brought home the sweep for the men. Great work, everyone! You can find complete results here.
• Steve Travis Invite: They may have missed the thrill of an in-person Badger win, but these Cows gained something more: the glory of racing at Steve Travis. The men took the win out of eleven teams, led by Mason Weber (2nd), Owynn Garrelts (3rd), Jacob Alejandro (7th), Sam Keuler (12th), and Ashton Yarrington (25th). Great work! Whitney Sylvester (4th), held down the fort for the women, and did a FANTASTIC job with a top ten finish (as well as on the takeover :)). Congrats to everyone, and you can find complete results here!!
• Gene Davis Invite: PBs all around! Great work to everyone who got up for the 6:45 leave time--the times did not reflect an ounce of exhaustion. Rumor had it that this year's course was set to be even faster than we've seen before, and it served the Cows well. WTC won both the men's and women's races! Congratulations to Dasha Vorontsov and Mason Weber on the first-place finishes. Claire Matthai (3rd), Ryann Wagner (4th), Lauren Tears (12th), and Whitney Sylvester (14th) also scored for the women. Claire's 22:29.1 also ties her for 2nd place on the WTC all-time 6k list list. Ryann's 22:38 is good for 6th! Great work, both of you!! Jacob Alejandro (4th), Rob Mirabello (5th), Wil Lackner (12th), and Justin Zens (13th) brought it in for the men. I guess that all of those popular demand workouts are making a difference! We were so glad to see so many faces out at this meet, and we're glad that we get to keep racing with you all semester. Cows achieve! Find results here.
• NIRCA Regionals: THE WISCONSIN TRACK CLUB ARE YOUR 2026 GREAT PLAINS NIRCA CHAMPIONS!!! Both the men AND the women took home the win (in the form of a glorious golden pumpkin) as teams, AND individually! Scoring for the men: Jacob Alejandro (WON!), Owynn Garrelts (3rd), Nathan Simon (4th), Jack Krusinski (7th), and Sam Keuler (13th). On the women's side, Dasha Vorontsov (WON!), Ryann Wagner (2nd), Lauren Tears (9th), Abby Lopez (10th), and Lauren Fligge (14th) all scored. We're so proud of all the hard work that our Regionals athletes have put in this season, and we can't wait to see what Nationals has in store!! You can find complete results here. We would also like to give a very special shoutout to Ashton Yarrington, who set a new club record of 25 breadsticks consumed at Olive Garden.
• UW-Oshkosh Open: Great work to everyone who closed out the 2026 regular season with a bang! Claire Matthai and Emma Waltenberry represented the women well, finishing 2nd in and 26th, respectively.  On the men's side, Mason Weber (1st), Sam Keuler (11th), Henry Hoerneman (29th),  Taren Schadrie (47th), and Reed Merklein (50th) scored for WTC. It's awesome to see everyone doing so well to finish the season, and we're excited to see what nationals has to bring in November. The hay is officially in the barn! Find complete UW-Oshkosh results here.
• NIRCA Nationals: Congratulations to your 2026 THIRD PLACE NIRCA FINISHERS!! Both the men's and women's teams took third place in the entire nation 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations also go out to Mason Weber and Dasha Vorontsov for their individual third place finishes, as well! We're still waiting on NIRCA to get themselves together and post the rest of the results so we have everyone's exact places, and we'll let you know as soon as we have them!

SOCIALS

CLEAR YOUR SCHEDULES FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF NOVEMBER BRINNER IS COMING SOON!!!

Stay tuned for lots more hanging out time in the near future! More details and locations are posted in Slack.

Volunteering

You can find volunteering sign up here. Please reach out to Volunteer Coordinator Whitney Sylvester with any questions.

Volunteering is great for the club and great for you. If you're interested in running for a board position in 2027, you must have completed five volunteering hours in order to be eligible to run. Here's what we have coming up soon! Make sure to send your hours to Whitney so she can count them for the club and for you.

• RACE is back up and running every Saturday at 9am at Picnic Point! RACE participants do a mixture or running, walking, and jogging, so there's a pace for everyone. Meet on the grass in front of the rock wall by the entrance to the trail.

WTC MERCH

Reach out to Brand Ambassador Lottie Andersson with any questions about merchandise!

• If you need a WTC singlet, please fill out this form so that Lottie knows that you are interested in purchasing one. If we run out again, we'll restock early in the spring semester, so everyone can have a uniform in plenty of time for track season.
• BSN merch will be here soon!

POLE VAULT

Be sure to join the #pole-vault channel in Slack for updates about practices at MPVC. Practice sign up is now open for the rest of the month of November. We have one more intake practice tomorrow (November 9th), so be sure to sign up for that before tonight (November 8th) at midnight. Reminder that intake pole vault practices cost $20 payable to Madison Pole Vault Club, and each practice is $15 after that. We'd love to see you all there!!