The 2022 Golden State Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships will be held in Rocklin, CA on November 5th. William Jessup University will be the host for this year's championship. For the second time in three years, the Warriors will host the race on their newly renovated campus course.
The women's race will begin at 9:00 AM followed by the men's race at 10:00 AM. The Master's University men's and women's teams will both look to defend their conference titles. The women have won two straight championships and will look to go for the three-peat in November. The men's team at TMU has won 12 straight conference championships, a GSAC record. Davis Boggess, a senior on the Mustang cross country team, will look to win his third straight individual championship.
The GSAC awards ceremony will begin at 10:45 AM on the grass field near the team camp staging area. The top 14 runners in the men's and the women's race at the conference championship will earn All-Conference honors. The first place individual and team champion on the men and women's side will both earn the conference's automatic bids to the NAIA National Championship in Tallahassee, Florida on November 18th.
Championship Meet Results - CLICK HERE
Men's Individual Champion - Senzo Sokhela, Westmont College
Men's Team Champion - The Master's University (24 points)
Women's Individual Champion - Ellen Palmgren, The Master's University
Women's Team Champion - The Master's University (18 points)
William Jessup Course Information
William Jessup’s on-campus course has been reestablished after being dormant for a significant number of years. The course will be run entirely on decomposed granite and packed dirt and will consist of rolling hills throughout.
Men's 8k Course Map - CLICK HERE
Women's 5k Course Map - CLICK HERE
Men's Course Description: The 8K course consists of 3.5 clockwise loops, each internal loop is 1.1 miles with 56 feet of elevation gain per loop. The course is run entirely on a decomposed granite/dirt path with no hard surfaces.
Women's Course Description: The 5k course consists of 2 clockwise loops and one 1 clockwise loop on our newly incorporated loop run after finishing the first large loop. The large loop is 1.1 miles and the new loop is 350 meters. The course is run entirely on decomposed granite/dirt path with no hard surfaces.
Directions to William Jessup University
Address: 2121 University Ave. Rocklin, CA 95765
Exit I-65 Highway
Go East on Sunset Blvd.
Make a left on University Ave.
Parking for the Championship will be in the back parking lot of William Jessup’s campus.