Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

Pomona-Pitzer Cross Country Invite

16th Annual Meet - Saturday, October 4, 2025

• 7:45am - Men's 8000m race
• 8:30am - Women's 6000m race

Pomona-Pitzer's cross country teams are pleased to host the 16th annual Pomona-Pitzer Cross Country Invite. The race will be held on the Pomona College campus course which runs through the Blanchard Park Wash area of Pomona College, with the finish inside Strehle Track on the grass infield. The meet features teams from NCAA Division III, Division II, Division I, and NAIA levels, and approximately 200 runners are expected in each race.

Teams/Entries for the 2025 meet:

INVITED SCHOOLS (Meet management will limit field sizes due to tight course restrictions): 
Meet entry priority will be given to NCAA Division III teams and NAIA teams first, NCAA Division II teams second, NCAA Division I teams third, and junior colleges fourth. Club/unattached individuals will be allowed to register. Contact us with requests to compete.

2025 competing schools include: Azusa Pacific, Biola, Cal Lutheran, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona, Caltech, Chapman, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Golden West, Hawaii Pacific, Occidental, Pomona-Pitzer, Redlands, Sequoias, Vanguard, Whittier.

For teams accepted into the meet, please complete your entries by Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 11:59am (just prior to noon).

Contact for meet entry approval, and for meet questions:

Coach Emma DeLira - Email

Registration/Entry Fees:

Our entry fee is $400 for a men's team, or $400 for a women's team, or $800 for a combined M/W team (unlimited entries). Register and pay online, or please bring cash or checks (payable to ‘Pomona College’) to the meet. 

Spectators:

We ask that spectators stay off the golf training area, and refrain from running off the trails that run through the oak trees, since bee hives may be disturbed. No dogs (with or without a leash) are allowed on the course or in the Wash or Strehle Track area (only service dogs are allowed). Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Course Description:

The course is a repeating loop (men: 3 loops, women: 2 loops), plus a start section (lower soccer field) before the loops, and a finish section (blue track) after the loops. COURSE MAP

Directions

The meet's start and finish areas are located at Strehle Track, Pomona College. The course is located west of Mills Avenue on Pomona College's campus between First and Sixth Street.  Park in campus lots (no fee). Spectator parking is available along Mills Avenue (gps to 529 North Mills Ave., Claremont, CA) and in the College's south campus Parking Structure.

Results

Results will be live on Finished Results, also posted near the finish line, and will be available on the Pomona-Pitzer website following the competition.

Awards

Awards will be handed out at 9:15am following the second race. The winning M & W teams will receive a plaque, and the top-10 individuals in each race will receive individual awards.

History

 "We are looking forward to hosting this meet again," says Women's Head Coach Kirk Reynolds. "We've hosted this meet for a few years now, and our NCAA West Regional meet has been held on this course in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021 - and we will be hosting Regionals again this fall. It's a proven course that is challenging and exciting."

"This is a tough cross country course that has all the elements to challenge a runner," continues Reynolds. "It has grass and dirt trails, and the whole course pretty much goes either uphill or downhill, so on each loop you have to do a bit of work to set up the next loop. The course is also very spectator-friendly; you can see the runners go by numerous times from the central start/finish area at the track. Do you ever watch Formula 1 racing? Yeah, it's like that!"

Maya Weigel (Pomona-Pitzer) holds the women's meet and course record of 20:57.3 set in winning the 2016 Invite. The men's meet record is 24:31.7 by Danny Lyon (CSU San Marcos) in winning the 2012 Invite, while the men's course record is 24:24.7 by Henry Pick (CMS) in winning the 2021 SCIAC Championships.

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