COLUMBIA, MO – In her second NCAA Cross Country National Championship race, junior Rose Coats turned in the best clocked the best 6K championship time in program history as she finished 111th overall with a mark of 20 minutes, 0.2 seconds at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course hosted by Missouri.

Coats' individual time in the 6,000 meter race was the best time for any Terp on a 6K National Championship course, improving her performance at last year's NCAA Championships by 18 seconds, and the best since Rosalind Taylor placed ninth in the 1988 National Championship, then a 5,000 meter race. Overall, Coats placed 111 out of 261 runners.
 
Coats, who earned NCAA All-Region honors last week, is the sixth Terp in program history to qualify for NCAA Championships which she accomplished last year, but the first Terp to individually qualify for the championships in back-to-back years. The last time the Terps saw an athlete in back-to-back championships was Alexandra Lucki in 2017 and Emily Bracher in 2018.
 
Maryland NCAA Championship Performances

• Rose Coats – 2025 NCAA Championship (111, 20:00.2, 6K)
• Rose Coats – 2024 NCAA Championship (61st, 20:18.5, 6K)
• Emily Bracher – 2018 NCAA Championship (227, 22:18.50, 6K)
• Alexandra Lucki - 2017 NCAA Championship (163, 21:11.6, 6K)
• Julie Fricke – 2011 NCAA Championship (150, 21:24.0, 6K)
• Rosalind Taylor – 1988 NCAA Championship (9th, 16:50.00, 5K)
• Jean Whitson – 1981 NCAA Championship (20th, 17:03.60, 5K)

 
Coats twice set the Maryland program record for a 6K race last season and did so again this year, clocking in at 19 minutes, 45.4 seconds at the Paul Short Run. That mark shaved nearly eight seconds off of her previous record of 19:53.8 that she set at the 2024 Princeton Fall Classic, then the first sub-20 minute 6K in program history.