Nov. 15, 2004

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The NCAA Track and Field Committee announced Sunday the team and individual qualifiers for the 2004 Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships.

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals must qualify in their respective NCAA regions. As the first-place finisher in the Southeast Regional Championship, the Duke women received an automatic bid to the national finals. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the nine regions, for a total of 18 teams, and then an additional 13 squads were selected at-large

On the men's side, senior Nick Schneider received an at-large individual bid to the championships face after finishing fifth overall at Saturday's Southeast Regional Final. Thirty-eight individuals, the first four from each region whose teams did not advance to the national finals, and two additional qualifiers, were selected to participate in each championship. All individual qualifiers must finish in the top 25 in their region.

Indiana State University will host the 2004 NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships, November 22, at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course located at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center, Terre Haute, Ind. The women's race will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern time followed by the men's race at 12:15 p.m.