Privateers Head to Natchitoches for the Southland Cross Country Championships

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NEW ORLEANS – The University of New Orleans cross country teams will make the 250-mile trek to Walter P. Ledet Track Complex on the campus of Northwestern State for the 2025 Southland Conference Cross Country Championships on Friday morning.

Mason Appleton, Antonio Delgado, Petra Imre and Michela Papalia are the only Privateers with Southland Championship experience who are scheduled to race this weekend. Appleton’s best time at a Southland Championship is 25:23.0 in 2022, Delgado’s is 27:27.0 in 2022, and Imre and Papalia finished in 22:56.0 and 23:12.3 last season.

Both the men’s and women’s teams have seen success at the Southland Championships over the last five seasons. Since 2021, including the 2020 championship run held in 2021, the UNO men have finished fourth, fourth, third, fourth and eighth. Kolyn Saltzman owns the best individual finish at the Southland Championships by a Privateer male, with a pair of fourth-place finishes in 2021 and 2022.

The women have finished fourth, second, first, second and fourth since 2021. The 2022 championship was the second in program history and just the third women’s conference championship in any sport in school history. Arina Kleshchukova won the individual Southland Championship in 2019 with a time of 20:50.5.

The women’s 6K is set to start at 8:30 a.m., with the men’s 8K following at 9:30 a.m. Fans can follow along using the link above or check @PrivateersTFXC on X for updates Friday morning. Both races will also be streamed on ESPN+.

SCHEDULED TO RUN FOR NEW ORLEANS:

(women) Alexa Daverio, Petra Imre, Michela Papalia, Dairia Rojas Vasquez, Anais Sulpice, Candilynn Vega

(men) Mason Appleton, Brandt Blanchard, Chey Bridges, Kenneth Cerrato, Antonio Delgado, Landen Juneau, Henry Livingston, Ben Stumm

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE XCRI RANKINGS:

Men

43 Stephen F. Austin.

90 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

116 UIW

201 Lamar

238 McNeese State

243 East Texas A&M

262 HCU

278 New Orleans

299 Nicholls

317 Northwestern State

320 Southeastern

Not Ranked – UTRGV

Women

63 Stephen F. Austin

98 Texas A&M-Corpus Christ

209 UTRGV

235 McNeese State

249 UIW

275 New Orleans

297 HCU

303 Lamar

311 Nicholls

334 East Texas A&M

351 Southeastern

356 Northwestern State

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