In a field of 280 competitors, rookie competitors Tadhg Karski and Elliot Thorkelson fared well by earning top half finishes at the 2014 NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championships Saturday morning at King's Island Golf Course in Mason, Ohio.

Qualifying for the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships is no easy feat. Just 14 runners (7 men, 7 women) from non-qualifying teams at Regionals receive the privilege to run in the national championships.

The Ohio Athletic Conference has honored 37 John Carroll University fall student-athletes with Academic All-OAC distinction on Tuesday.

A third member of the John Carroll University cross country teams has qualified for the NCAA National Championship.

A member of the John Carroll University men's cross country team can punch his ticket to nationals. For another, he will have to waint until the offical release of the field on Sunday.

Following solid showings by the men and women's cross country squads at the Ohio Athletic Championships on November 1 and a week of rest, the Blue Streaks are ready for their biggest race of the season the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional.