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SALEM, Va. -- The Christopher Newport cross country teams will test themselves against the top competition in the South this weekend as the Captains will take part in the NCAA Regional Championships on Saturday at Green Hill Park in Salem, Virginia.

The men will open the day with the 8k at 10 a.m. before the women run the 6k exactly one hour later. For those fans unable to attend the meet, live results will be available at RoanokeMaroons.com. A direct link can be found at the top of this release and on the schedule page.

Christopher Newport is one of 35 schools that will be represented at Saturday's competition. Entering the weekend, the Captains are ranked third in the South on the women's side, while the men are slotted eighth in the area. Both squads have held down a top-10 position throughout the entire fall campaign.

Among the top challengers in the region, four teams are currently ranked in the top-25 of the USTFCCCA National Poll. For the men, Washington and Lee is 19th in the country, while Lynchburg is 23rd. On the women's side, Washington and Lee is 14th and Emory is 16th.

The winning teams on Saturday will receive automatic bids to the NCAA Championships, which will be held at the Roger Milliken Cross Country Course in Spartanburg, South Carolina on November 22. Meanwhile, 22 additional programs from around the country will earn at-large berths to the national meet.

Along with the team qualifiers, the top-seven individual finishers in both races on Saturday will advance to the NCAA Championships.

Consistently successful on the regional stage, Christopher Newport has a long history of standout performances at the South Championships. The men have placed in the top-10 during each of the past 12 competitions, including back-to-back victories in 2016 and 2017. Meanwhile, the women have a streak of 11 consecutive top-10 performances, including a second-place mark in 2014.

Last year, the men finished seventh at the South Regionals, while the women came in eighth.

CNU is coming off of a solid showing at the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Championships on November 1. During the league meet, the women came in second overall, while the men placed third. Stockpiling awards for their work, Evan Young, Clayton Rankin, Sarah Dake, and Sarah Bland all garnered first-team All-Conference citations, while Kayla Lopez and Courtney Mudd received second-team plaudits.

Five of those standouts also posted times that placed them in the top-20 on the program's all-time charts. For the women, Sarah Dake registered the fourth-fastest 6k clocking in school lore (22:05.1), while Bland jumped to fifth (22:10.3) and Lopez moved to 17th (22:43.8).

On the men's side, Young completed the 8k in 24:52.6, which vaulted him to eighth on the school's all-time performance list. Shortly thereafter, Rankin crossed in 25:07.8, which bumped him to 13th in program history.

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