Meet: CCAA Championships
Location: Fresno, Calif.
Date: Friday, Oct. 25, 2024
Team Finish: 4th out of 9 teams
Top CSUSM Finisher: Sankalp Shastri (5th, 24:26.3)
Winner: Chico State's (24:06.1)
ALL-CCAA HONORS:
Sankalp Shastri
COURSE REPORT: The Cal State San Marcos men's cross country team placed fourth with a score of 99 at the CCAA Championships on the course of Woodward Park in Fresno on Friday morning.
FINISH LINE
- Sankalp Shastri placed fifth out of 77 runners with a time of 24:26.3, improving on a 43rd-place finish in 2023.
- Alan Jimenez just missed out on earning all-conference honors with a 17th-place finish in a time of 24:47.9.
- Ataklty Gebru (23rd) and Braden Oberg (25th) both record 8K PR times at 25:02.9 and 25:05.4, respectively.
- Jacob Brown (25:32.9, 34th), Ziggy Nacco (25:38.3, 35th) and Renton McGregor (25:51.2, 39th) rounded out CSUSM's scoring.
THOUGHTS FROM HAD COACH TORREY OLSON
"We were led well today at the front of both races. Sankalp, Angela, and Hailie both showed a lot of grit. They knew what they wanted to do and they executed."
WHAT'S NEXT
The Cougars will be off for two weeks preparing for the NCAA Division II West Regional Championships in Billings, Montana, on Nov. 9. The regional will take place at Amend Park where they were hosted in 2022 and 2018.
TEAM RESULTS
| 1 | Chico State | 18 |
| 2 | Cal Poly Pomona | 55 |
| 3 | Stanislaus State | 76 |
| 4 | Cal State San Marcos | 99 |
| 5 | Cal Poly Humboldt | 133 |
| 6 | Cal State East Bay | 158 |
| 7 | Cal State Monterey Bay | 216 |
| 8 | Cal State LA | 238 |
| 9 | San Francisco State | 242 |
CSUSM INDIVIDUAL INVITE RESULTS
Players Mentioned
- 5' 10"
- Sophomore
- 5' 3"
- Senior
- 5' 9"
- Junior
- 6' 0"
- Junior
- Sophomore
- Sophomore
- 5' 9"
- Junior
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Redshirt Junior
- Junior
Players Mentioned
- 5' 10"
- Sophomore
- 5' 3"
- Senior
- 5' 9"
- Junior
- 6' 0"
- Junior
- Sophomore
- Sophomore
- 5' 9"
- Junior
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Redshirt Junior
- Junior
Latest Men's Cross Country
- Foster, Jimenez Named CSUSM Student-Athletes of the MonthAvery Foster of women's golf and Alan Jimenez of men's cross country have been named the Cal State San Marcos Student-Athletes of the Month for October 2025.
- CSUSM Places Third at CCAA ChampionshipsThe Cal State San Marcos men's cross country team earned a third-place finish at the CCAA Championships on Friday morning at Hooker Oak Park in Chico, scoring 73 points in the 8K race.
- CSUSM Wraps Up Regular Season at Highlander InviteThe Cal State San Marcos men's cross country team placed 16th out of 25 teams at the Highlander Invitational in Riverside, scoring 445 points in the 6K race.
- CSUSM Finishes 23rd at Lewis CrossoverThe Cal State San Marcos men's cross country team placed 23rd out of 37 teams at the Lewis Crossover on Saturday in Romeoville, Illinois, scoring 526 points. Alan Jimenez led the Cougars with a top-20 finish in the 8K race.
- Cougars Place Second in UC Riverside Invitational Open RaceThe Cal State San Marcos men's cross country team placed second out of 22 teams in the Open 8K race at the UC Riverside Invitational on Saturday, scoring 112 points. In the Invitational 8K division, CSUSM competed individually but did not register a team score.
- Jimenez Leads Cougars to Third-Place Finish at Cougar ChallengeLed by Alan Jimenez's fifth-place finish, the Cal State San Marcos men's cross country team placed third out of eight teams at its home meet, the Cougar Challenge, on Saturday morning at Mangrum Track & Field. The Cougars tallied 61 points, finishing just two points behind second-place Pomona-Pitzer and 41 points behind team champion Cal Poly Pomona.
