There’s a lot to like about the Jerry Colangelo Classic.

Many of the top distance programs in the NCAA will compete on Friday in Fresno, California at the West Coast Relays. NAU, BYU, Stanford, NC State, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado and Washington are all entered and will be chasing fast marks with just over a month left in the season.

With just two weeks left to qualify for NCAAs a majority of the top-16 fields are coming into form on the distance side. The NAU men are currently slated to qualify ten entries across three distance events.

One of the cooler features of our recent series following the Northern Arizona men’s cross country team, Running With The Boys, was the inside glimpse at many of the unique places where the Lumberjacks train. Our cameras followed Mike Smith’s team from the mountainous trails of their home base in Flagstaff, Arizona, to their workouts on the road before and after meets in Madison, Wisconsin, and Terre Haute, Indiana.

FloTrack presents an exclusive five-part docuseries following the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks during their 2019 cross country season.

When they line up on the start line at Saturday’s NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, it will have been 1,471 days since the Northern Arizona men’s team lost a varsity race. 

Nine of the 2019 NCAA Division I Cross Country Regional Championships will stream LIVE on FloTrack with a combination of fully produced broadcasts and finish line cameras. The KOLAS Live Selection Show will also stream concurrently with real-time analysis, live check-ins from every Regional Championship and the latest NCAA Championship qualifying updates.

By Parker Navarro - MileSplit

After all the previews, prognostications, and polls, the NCAA cross country season begins in earnest on Saturday at the John McNichols Invitational. The race puts a bunch of top-10 teams together in Terre Haute — a course they will see again in November for the NCAA Championships.