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UNG Cross Country Invitational


UNG XC Invitational LogoEVENT DATE: Friday, September 12, 2025

Location: UNG Gainesville Campus - 3820 Mundy Mill Road, Oakwood, Georgia 30503

Schedule of Events
4:30 p.m. – Packet pick up opens                                                    
5:30 p.m. – National Anthem
5:35 p.m. – Men report to start line
5:45 p.m. – Men’s 8K race
6:20 p.m. – Women report to start line
6:30 p.m. – Women’s 5K race

Course Information: This meet will be run on the University of North Georgia Cross Country Course, which is home to the Peach Belt Conference Championships (2015, 2020, 2023 & 2024) and the NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Cross Country Southeast Regionals (2018, 2020 & 2023). The course is generally set up as a large and open spectator-friendly one-mile loop. The course is all grass and dirt and is considered “flat and fast" and features a stadium-style finish and the adjacent G.W. Bailey Amphitheater for awards.

Entry Fee: $150 per team, women and men are separate teams. Total for any school is $300. Please make checks payable to UNG Women’s Cross Country Foundation. Payment may also be made online through Direct Athletics. All entries should be completed online through Direct Athletics at DirectAthletics.com. Registration closes on Tuesday, September 9 at 5:00 p.m. There are no “unattached” competitors - all runners must be part of a competing team.

Team Parking Area: Teams will have assigned parking in Lot V (adjacent to Public Safety building). Signage will be in place to direct vans and buses to the appropriate lot.

Packet Pickup/Bibs: Team packets with race numbers, timing information and starting box assignments will be distributed in the G.W. Bailey Amphitheater beginning at 4:30 p.m. If bibs of teams entered runners who do not compete are not turned in to the timer prior to starting, then those runners are considered DNF. Entered competitors must be declared DNS prior to the race starting to prevent entered runners from starting then pulling out of the race.

Restrooms & Team Tents: Portable restrooms for both participants and spectators will be available on Nighthawks Way (below parking deck). Team tents will be set up in the designated team tent areas only. 

Timing & Results: The races will be timed by Runners Fit Raceworks. Meet results will be loaded to TFRRS immediately following both races. All times, places and team finished will be distributed digitally. 
 
Awards: The winning team and individual for both genders will receive plaques.
 
 
Year Women's Team Champion Women's Individual Champion Men's Team Champion Men's Individual Champion
2025 GCSU - Results Destinee Frink, Georgia State (18:18) GCSU - Results Evan Rehrauer, GCSU (26:25)
2024 North Georgia - Results Claire Mills, North Georgia (18:14) Oglethorpe - Results Ashton Deriso, Oglethorpe (26:19)
2023 Catawba - Results Mikayla Jones, Catawba (17:04) Catawba - Results Erick Ramirez, Catawba (24:47)
2022  North Georgia - Results Val Angel, North Georgia (18:52) Piedmont - Results Joshua Wagner, Unattached (25:25)
2021 North Georgia - Results Kathryn Vradenburg, Dalton State (18:03) Piedmont - Results Zac Wright-Fisher, Life (15:22) ^
2020 Anderson - Results Alli Hay, Columbus State (18:09) Anderson - Results Solomon Komen, West Georgia (26:00)
2019 North Georgia - Results Emily Kearney, SCAD Atlanta (17:21) West Alabama - Results Jakob Bernal, West Alabama (26:27)
2018 North Georgia - Results Makayla Hewell, Shorter (23:04) % Augusta - Results Joshua Chepkiser, UNCP (25:07)
2017 North Georgia - Results Emily Kearney, SCAD Atlanta (17:40) Emory - Results Dax Willette, SCAD Atlanta (26:49)
2016 SCAD Atlanta -  Results Emily Kearney, SCAD Atlanta (17:59) SCAD Savannah -  Results Alfred Chelanga, Shorter (26:43)
2015 SCAD Atlanta - Results Emily Poole, Dalton State (22:41) % Dalton State - Results Spencer Head, Dalton State (25:26) 
2014 North Georgia - Results Brittany Truitt, UNG (18:55)  Dalton State Spencer Head, Dalton State (25:54) 
2013 North Georgia Maggie Tindol, UNG (19:52) Truett McConnell Luis Gonzalez, TMC (28:14)

% women's 6K race
^ men's 5K race
2023 XC Course Map