The Emory men's cross country team traveled to Terra Haute, Indiana for the NCAA Championships, taking place on Saturday morning. Emory competed as an at-large competitor at the event and recorded a 24^th place finish after recording a score of 586. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse won the event with a dominating 77 points, followed by Wartburg's 174 and the reigning champion Pomona-Pitzer's 182.
 
Emory was led by graduate student Scott Masterson, who recorded a 65^th place finish in the 294-runner field. Masterson closed hard in his race at the 8k distance, passing 40 runners in the final 1.5k of the race. He finished with a time of 24:59.2. Senior Marcus Cheema was up next, finishing in 145^th with a time of 25:27.7.
 
Four Eagles went on to finish within seven seconds of one another. Sophomore Kirin Karver led this group, coming in 185^th with a time of 25:42.0. Next up, was senior Tristan Olpin who clocked in at 25:44.7 in 194^th with sophomore Olin Gilster on his heels in 195^th at 25:45.0. Graduate student Spencer Watry finished in 206^th with a time of 25:49.6.
 
Rounding out the performances for Emory was freshman Ryan Van De Berghe, coming in 236^th with a time of 26:02.0.
 
This is the fifth-straight season in which the men's team finished in the top-25 at the NCAA National Championships, all under the guidance of Head Coach Linh Nguyen.