Full NCAA Selection Release
NCAA Championship Info

HAVERFORD, Pa. - The No. 22 Haverford College men's cross country team will continue its 2019 season at the NCAA Division III Championship in Louisville, Kentucky. The Fords were announced as an at-large selection to the national meet on Sunday, and will be making a 27th consecutive trip to nationals. Action at the Spalding University-hosted championships will begin at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, November 23. 

Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the eight regions, for a total of 16 teams. In addition, 16 additional teams were selected at-large. A total of 56 individuals, the first seven student-athletes from each region who are not a part of a qualifying team, were also selected to participate in each championship race. 

The Fords were the only men's team selected among the at-large selections from the Mideast Region. Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins previously earned automatic qualification by virtue of their first and second place finishes at the regional meet. Haverford was selected after finishing third at the Mideast Regional Championship yesterday at Lehigh. Senior Conor Madden finished 17th overall to pace the Fords in Bethlehem, while Sam McCalpin, Peter Buckley, and Ryan Kredell were all also named All-Mideast Region after finishing within the Top 35 overall entrants in the 8K race. 

The national meet will be a homecoming of sorts for two of Haverford's top seven runners as McCalpin and sophomore Max Brelig both hail from the Bluegrass State. On the same E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park course in 2016, Haverford finished 18th in the national championship race, although no current member of the Fords competed in that event.  In 2018, Haverford finished fourth at the NCAA Championship race in Winneconne, Wisconsin, ascending to the national podium for the seventh time in program history.