INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Washburn's women's cross country standout Kyla Lochtefeld received an at large bid to compete in the 2025 NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday, November 22 at Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course. The women's race will begin at 10 a.m. CST, followed by the men's race at 11:15 a.m.

Lochtefeld led the Ichabods with an 11th-place finish, clocking a time of 21:24.21 over the 6,000-meter course. Her finish tied the highest regional placement by a Washburn runner in program history and her time was a program-best for a 6K time. Lochtefeld is the second Washburn woman to earn an NCAA bid to the Championships joining Sierra Mortensen who finished 54th in 2017. 

Lochtefeld will be joined by the Ichabod men's full squad after they finished second at last weekend's NCAA Regional for a program-best finish.  At the race, senior Donald Kibet tied a program record with a second-place individual finish and Tommy Roehl recorded a top-20 finish coming in 17th at the Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course.