2026 Southland Conference XC Championships
Friday, October 30, 2026
Enos Derbonne Sports Complex | Lake Charles, La.
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LAKE CHARLES - McNeese home cross country course at the Enos Derbonne Sports Complex will host Friday's 2026 Southland Conference XC Championships.
 
The women will get the event underway with a 6k race at 8:30 while the men will run an 8k at 9:30.
 
Leading the Cowgirls into the meet will be junior Uxue Castro-Martin while the men will be led by sophomore Gregory Martin. Castro-Martin is coming off a Cowgirl 6k school record at the Texas A&M Arturo Barrios Invitational where she ran a 20:12.7. That time is ranked as the fifth-best in the league.
 
Martin led the Cowboys at Texas A&M with an 8k time of 24:02.7, the sixth-fastest 8k in the league for the season.
 
The Cowboys will enter the meet ranked No. 9 in the latest USTFCCCA South Central Region. SFA, who was picked to win the meet in the preseason poll, is ranked third followed by UIW at No. 6 and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at No. 8.
 
Following the conference meet, qualifiers will have the opportunity to compete at South Central Regional meet hosted by Texas A&M.
 
The top two teams from each region will then automatically qualify for the NCAA Championship meet, along with the first four additional individuals. To complete the championship field, the NCAA DI Cross Country Subcommittee then chooses 14 at-large teams based on regional and season performances.
 
The NCAA Championships this year will take place on November 21 and will be hosted by Indiana State University.