SEATTLE – Seattle University men’s and women’s cross country kicks off its championship portion of the season this week, heading south to Tecolate Shores in San Diego, Calif., for the 2026 West Coast Conference Championships on Friday, October. 30. Racing begins with the women’s 6K at 10 a.m. PT followed by the men’s 8K at 11 a.m. Both races and the awards ceremony will be streamed live on ESPN+.
The Redhawks will send 10 women and 10 men to the championship event. On the women’s side, entries include Aavi Bass, Emma Bellomy, Cate Bishop, Diana Camargo Solis, Annabelle Clapp, Lydia Dale, Mira Danish, Johnny Eggert, Adelaide Nelson and Rio Tabion. Camargo Solis, a senior, holds Seattle U’s sixth fastest 6K mark, set during the 2024 season. In this season’s regular-season finale at the George Oja Invitational, Nelson, a freshman, and Dale, a junior, entered the all-time record book with the 11th and 19th fastest 6K times.
For the men, entires will include Mateo Cafaro, Jacob Crisman, Khalid Hirsi, Nathaniel Laursen, Jovanny Lieb, Jeremy Posdon, Joshua Prince, Roman Radecki, Preston Schmidt and Dylan Shugg. Seven of the 10 men have raced their way into the program’s all-time top-20 list this fall. Posdon ranks third all-time in the 8K, Schmidt ranks fifth all-time, Radecki ranks ninth, Lieb ranks 10th, Hirsi ranks tied for 14th, Prince ranks 17th and Cafaro ranks 20th.
The WCC Championships will feature nine competing programs in both the men’s and women’s races including LMU, Pacific, Pepperdine, Portland, Saint Mary’s, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Seattle U.
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