TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Cal Poly senior Joe Gatel finished in 110th at the NCAA’s Division I Cross Country Championships, hosted by Indiana State on Monday. Gatel covered the 10-kilometer race in a time of 31:03. Liberty’s Samuel Chelanga won the individual championship in a record setting time of 28:41. Oklahoma State won the team title by placing all five scoring runners in the top-77 As a junior Gatel helped Cal Poly to a 23rd place finish...

SPRINGFIELD, OR. – Senior Joe Gatel led Cal Poly to a fifth-place finish at the West Regional hosted by the University of Oregon on Saturday. The senior was 15th in a field of 182 runners, clocking a time of 31 minutes, 9.25 seconds over the 10,000-meter course held at the Springfield Country Club. The Mustangs finished with Arizona State in a tie with 155 points. Stanford won with 27 points and was trailed by Portland...

IRVINE, CALIF. – Cal Poly was the recipient of the most 2009 Big West Cross Country awards as the Mustangs claimed three of the six major honors. The Cal Poly men’s team claimed two of those accolades as Joe Gatel was named the Men’s Athlete of the Year, while head coach Mark Conover was once again bestowed the honor of Men’s Coach of the Year. The Mustangs’ remaining award was on the women’s side as Kayleigh...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Cal Poly men’s cross country team won its seventh-straight and 10th overall Big West Conference Cross Country Championship held at the UC Riverside Farm Course on Saturday. The Mustangs won the title with all five scoring runners finishing in the top 10. The Cal Poly women’s team finished third in a hotly contested women’s race won by UCSB with 50 points, followed by UC Davis with 61 and Cal Poly with...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Cal Poly head cross country coach Mark Conover will lead the Mustang teams into the Big West Conference Championships on Saturday hosted by UC Riverside. Conover will be looking to lead the men’s team to its seventh-straight and 10th conference championship overall while the women’s team will be looking for its third championship. The men’s team making the run in Riverside will include the squad who ran at the Pre-Nationals...

TERRE HAUTE, IN – The Cal Poly men’s cross country team finished 10th in a loaded Blue Race running against 11 nationally ranked teams at the Pre-Nationals on Saturday. Joe Gatel led the team with a 30th place finish with a time of 24:25. Luke Puskedra won the race with a time of 23:40 and led the Oregon men’s team to a first place finish. ‘ The Mustangs entered the race ranked 29th in the nation...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Both Cal Poly cross country teams placed second on Saturday at the VS Athletics/Cal Poly Invitational at the Fairbanks Cross Country Course in San Luis Obispo with UCLA winning the women’s race and UC Irvine winning the men’s. UCLA’s Shannon Murakami was the overall winner of the women’s race with a time of 18:01 as the Bruins packed together runners in the four, five and six positions to help take home...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The No. 29 ranked Cal Poly men’s cross country squad will return to action Saturday at the prestigious Pre-National Invitational hosted by Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind. The Mustangs will send their “A” squad to Terre Haute while also competing a full team men and women at the VS Sports/Cal Poly Invitational in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Saturday morning. “Our home meet will provide an opportunity for our women's team to...