2025 NC State cross country Women are 2025 National Champions!

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8:10a, 11/26/25
Recap of the 2025 NCAA Championships by The Stride Report. They cover the women's team race from 14:45-23:40 in this video. They say that with Laurie Henes winning her 4th National Title (and 4th in the last 5 years), that she is "among the all time greats" of NCAA cross country coaches.

"Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." - John 15:19
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11:59a, 11/27/25
Looking ahead to next year...

Grace Hartman said in interviews a couple times over the last week surrounding the national championship race that the team talks about how they believe they have enough talent on their roster to field two nationally competitive teams.

The last two recruiting classes have been stellar, and they redshirted two of those stud true freshman recruits this fall: Emily Wisniewski and Alexa Dow. Wisniewski finished 3rd at 2023 Nike Cross Nationals and 16th at 2024 Nike Cross Nationals. Alexa Dow won the U18 Canadian Cross Country Championship in 2024. Daniela Scheffler was another true freshman big-time recruit in the 2025 class, who finished 10th at 2024 Nike Cross Nationals. And they apparently redshirted Ellie Shea this fall, who has a ton of potential.

Briley Bickerstaff made major improvements this fall, for instance finishing 34th in the Southeast Region race in a time of 20:19, only 8 seconds behind Fleur Templier. The graduate transfer Kaylie Armitage did not race for us this fall, but appears to have one year of cross country eligibility left (she finished 13th at the 2023 Southeast Region race and 18th at the 2024 Southeast Region race)

The 2026 roster includes the following who project to be major contributors with potential to make the top 7:

Grace Hartman
Hannah Gapes
Angelina Napoleon
Bethany Michalak
Sadie Engelhardt
Ellie Shea
Emily Wisniewski
Daniela Scheffler
Alexa Dow
Kaylie Armitage
Fleur Templier
Briley Bickerstaff

You also have Kate Putman and Jolena Quarzo possibly being in the mix.

Team will be absolutely loaded....and obvious that they could field two nationally competitive teams with their roster. It's possible that all 5 of our scorers from this year's national championship team could be legit "low sticks" (or at least top 20 at nationals) by next fall. And with injuries so prevalent in the sport, it's a luxury to have such loaded roster with tons of other talented runners for depth. You have to like our chances to win the national title again in 2026.
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5:54p, 11/27/25
Some video here of the team immediately after the race celebrating after finding out they won that I hadn't seen anywhere else yet.

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2:00p, 11/30/25
Surprised/disappointed no recognition of team at UNC game. Even if team was home for thanksgiving, not even a video tribute
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It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great.


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11:01a, 12/6/25
The USA Cross Country Championships are being held today (Saturday, Dec 6th) in Portland, Oregon. Grace Hartman, Katelyn Tuohy, and Elly Henes are all entered. It is a 10k race. The top six finishers will qualify to represent the USA at the World Cross Country Championships to be held next month in Tallahassee, Florida (the first World XC Championships held on US Soil in 34 years).

Let's Run has a good preview article here. The men's and women's 10k races start at 3:55 pm ET.

The races will apparently be live streamed for free here.

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I watched on the live stream. Grace Hartman finishes 6th at the USATF XC Championships and qualifies for the USA team for the World XC Championships. Parker Valby finished 10th, Elly Hennes 13th, and Katelyn Tuohy 16h. Amaras Tyynisma also was in the race and finished 26th. Valby and Tuohy hugged after finishing at the finish line, and of course Tuohy and Hartman had a big hug. Hartman was smiling big after finishing, and seemed thrilled with her performance.
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8:48p, 12/6/25
Grace Hartman after finishing 6th at the USA XC Championships. She says the original plan (per Coach Henes) was for her to compete in this coming indoor season and redshirt outdoor track…and doesn't know if competing at the World XC Championship next month will change that plan or not.

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10:31a, 12/15/25
Yesterday, Phoebe helped Great Britain and Northern Ireland to a second-place team finish at the European Cross Country Championships, finishing 16th individually and second among the GB & NI athletes.

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