Nov. 23, 2009

2009 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championship Individual Results

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - University of Maryland junior Alex Lundy crossed the finish line in 30:49.5 as the 88th runner out of 250 individuals at the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships Monday afternoon in Terre Haute, Ind. Lundy shaved a whole minute off his Mid-Atlantic Region qualifying run (31:49.2) and finished 37 places higher than his 2008 championship run (125th).

Lundy ran an 8:52 3k split and reached the 5k mark at 15:10. The majority of the top-100 runners hit 24 minutes at 8k. The Terrapin finished the 10k race six minutes later as less than half the field crossed the finish line in under 30 minutes.

The junior from Littleton, Colo., had earned his second consecutive trip to the NCAA Division I Nationals with his sixth-place individual finish at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional hosted by Maryland-Eastern Shore just last week.

A year ago, he became the first Maryland individual to compete at nationals in recent memory after a 10th-place regional finish.

Liberty's Sam Chelanga was crowned the NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Champion with a record-breaking time of 28:41.3 and 25 seconds ahead of the next finisher. Chelanga broke the LaVern Gibson 10K course record by 22 seconds. Oklahoma State claimed the men's team title with 127 points, followed by Oregon with 143 points.