And he is. As his BYU teammates continue celebrating their first-place finish and BYU’s sweep of the team competitions, Clinger will board a plane home in hopes of making it in time for the arrival of their first child.

Alabama's Doris Lemngole captured the individual 2024 women's cross country title after running a time of 19:21.0. Watch the full race here. ESPN experienced technical difficulties at the end of the race that affected all broadcast feeds.

BYU became only the fifth team ever to win both the men’s and women’s NCAA cross-country championships in the same year.

Her BYU women’s cross country team fell apart at the NCAA championship, taking 14th place after entering the race ranked third in the country. “We failed last year. We failed miserably,” she said Saturday.

On Saturday, November 23, the top collegiate runners battled on the grass at the 2024 NCAA Cross-Country Championships in Verona, Wisconsin. Temperatures were chilly, in the high 30s, with cloudy skies and little wind.

BYU football may be chasing a College Football Playoff spot, but the Cougars will have a national champion no matter what this fall. Well, two actually. The men’s and women’s cross country teams both won the national championship in Wisconsin on Saturday.