Women’s Results / Men’s Results

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida State women’s cross country team is heading back to the NCAA Championships in style.

The No. 12 Noles won their second consecutive NCAA South Region title in style on a cool and damp Friday morning at Apalachee Regional Park. Six Noles earned All-Region honors, led by the top-10 trio of Maudie Skyring (fourth), Elizabeth Funderburk (sixth) and Addi Coggins (seventh), as FSU finished with 42 points and a 58-point margin of victory over runner-up and No. 27 Ole Miss.

It is the second-largest margin of victory in the program’s history of eight region titles; the bi-product of a nearly perfectly executed race plan.

“The plan was to pack up, which they did early,” said fifth-year coach Kelly Phillips. “I was pretty pleased with that. Megan Mooney hasn’t been feeling well the past two days and you could tell she was a bit off, but the good part is when you have a team that’s deep it’s OK for someone to fall off, because they have back-ups. They executed very well.”

So well that their 42-point total was the lowest winning score since 2013, when the Noles finished with 35 points and beat runner-up Vanderbilt by a whopping 81-point margin.

“I didn’t think we’d be able to have a score that low,” Phillips said, after her team secured the 13th NCAA Championships berth in program history, all since 2002. “I knew they were ready to run fast and it’s their home course and were excited about it. I was a little surprised it was as low as it was.”