Men's Cross Country Set for AAC Championship Meet

Friday, October 28

Tulsa, OK

10:00 AM

Temple University

American Athletic Conference Championships

Photo by: Shane Holland

Men's Cross Country Set for AAC Championship Meet

10.27.22 | Men's Cross Country

TULSA, Okla.- The Temple men's cross country team, coming off a fantastic regular season, begins postseason play Friday at the American Athletic Championship Conference meet in Tulsa. Temple has not finished lower than 3^rd place in the AAC Championships since 2017.

Previewing the Owls
> The Owls had a very strong showing last meet at the Penn State National Open. Temple defeated Penn State and Rutgers en route to 6^th place out of 14 competing teams.
> Erik Kain, Cole Frank, and Christian Fitch were the top three for Temple, finishing 20, 22, and 24th, respectively. Mattia Zen and Liem Chot rounded out the top five at 44th and 52nd.

The Field
> Temple will be one of nine schools competing in the AAC title meet. The Owls are joined by Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, USF, and Wichita State.
> Tulsa has won the conference every year since joining in 2014.
> Live results from the meet can be found here. The match will be streamed on ESPN+.

Quotable: Assistant Coach Collin Zeffer
"Our group is prepared to bring their best race at the conference championship here in Tulsa. We have had great momentum in our last few competitions and in past few weeks of training. The men and I are really looking forward to racing hard and seeing what they can do. We will line up with some really strong teams and it will take a great effort to accomplish what we want to, but I feel like we are fully prepared and anxious for the gun to go off."