2025 NCAA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Isaac Wood preview the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championships set to take place in Columbia, Missouri this weekend.
- The NCAA Cross Country Championships are Isaac’s Super Bowl
- Key Regional performances and takeaways
- The Case For and Against NC State, BYU, Florida, New Mexico, Notre Dame and Oregon on the women’s side
- The Case For and Against Oklahoma State, Iowa State, New Mexico, Syracuse, Virginia and Oregon on the men’s side
- Is this Jane Hedengren’s title to lose?
- Can Habtom Samuel finally pull off the win?
- Who will be the top American and top freshman on the men’s side?
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Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Isaac Wood | @isaacew on Instagram
Produced by: Jasmine Fehr | @jasminefehr on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | All right, it is November 18th, and we are just days away from the 2025 NCAA Division I |
| 0:11.1 | Cross Country Championships right as we jumped on to record this. Isaac said, man, you're sick. |
| 0:20.3 | And yes, if you can tell by the tone of my voice, |
| 0:24.6 | I've been battling a cold for the past couple days. I will not be going to the NCAA |
| 0:29.4 | championships. Paul Hoffmohoney will be holding it down with Isaac. Jasmine Fair will be on site |
| 0:35.7 | getting interviews for the squad. |
| 0:37.9 | So the show goes on. |
| 0:39.9 | I actually won't even be in the U.S. |
| 0:42.5 | I will be going on a little bit of a family vacation over the next week. |
| 0:47.8 | So if everything goes awry with Sidious over the next week or so, |
| 0:54.8 | it's because I'm nowhere near my computer and stuff. |
| 0:59.2 | So let's hope for the best, but today we are obviously joined by the cross-country guru himself, |
| 1:05.6 | the Wood Report. |
| 1:06.8 | Isaac, is this sort of like Super Bowl week for you where it starts to like as it gets |
| 1:12.9 | closer and closer you get more and more excited. Yeah it's it's you know might be the best week of the year right |
| 1:20.0 | I think especially with the regionals on Friday and then just eight days later being NCAAs it's |
| 1:26.4 | it's a great time to be a fan of |
| 1:28.4 | NCAA cross-country and um especially with the storylines we have um and really just how um you know |
| 1:36.6 | i don't know if it's up in the air but i don't know if like i think we have some favorites but i |
| 1:41.3 | don't know if we've gone into an NCAAs where it wasn't like |
| 1:44.9 | i feel like last year like there were some teams that we thought could win and i obviously didn't |
| 1:49.5 | pick bi yu to win either one but i think we all kind of thought that that might happen right didn't |
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