PEORIA, Ill. – Bradley Cross Country travels to Des Moines, Iowa, for the 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Championships this Friday, Oct. 30.
2026 MVC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Where: A.H. Blank Golf Course - Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Time: 10:30 a.m. - Women's 6K | 11:30 a.m. - Men's 8K
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Wayzata Results
RECAPPING THE BRADLEY PINK CLASSIC
Bradley showed out at the Bradley Pink Classic on Oct. 16, sweeping the event's individual and team titles at Newman Golf Course.
Jayde Rosslee took the men's race victory with a time of 23:02.6, finishing ahead of second place by 24 seconds. His time set a new meet record, shattering the old record of 23:27.8 by 25 seconds. Seven Braves finished in the top 22 overall, and all seven of those finisher clocked times under 24 minutes. Ten of the 14 Braves competing in the Red and White races set new personal bests.
Noelle Steines continued her sensational sophomore campaign by taking the women's race victory at 19:57.2. Her time set a new 6K program record, besting the old record by just two hundredths of a second.
Rhune Vanroose and
Pauline Kleesiek both finished in the top 10, while
Kaitlyn Sheppard brought home 12th. Ten of the 13 Braves competing in the Red and White races set new personal bests.
QUEST FOR THE THREE-PEAT
Bradley Cross Country swept the team titles for the second consecutive season at the 2025 MVC Championships in Evansville.
Kaitlyn Sheppard earned MVC Women's Athlete of the Year after finishing in first place with a time of 20:48.73. Sheppard led a dominant performance for the Bradley women as Braves occupied the entire top six and had seven of the top nine finishers.
Abigail Hancock,
Noelle Steines (the MVC Freshman of the Year),
Rhune Vanroose,
Trixie Wraith and
Anna Perry rounded out the top six, while
Nadia Potgieter finished ninth. Bradley's seven all-conference honorees led the Braves to the first-ever perfect score of 15 points, finishing 70 points ahead of second place.
Jayde Rosslee completed the sweep with his first place finish to earn MVC Men's Athlete of the Year. He finished with a time 24:01.52, 17 seconds ahead of second place.
Caleb Lind and
Michael Rebello finished fourth and seventh to earn All-MVC honors, while
Oliver Burns was an honorable mention in 13th. Bradley finished with 49 points, finishing 25 points ahead of the runner-ups.
TEAM NEWS & NOTES
- Last year's MVC Championship marked the first time that one program swept both the men's and women's team titles and men's and women's individual titles at a single conference championship since the conference began holding a women's championship race in 1982.
- The Women's team score of 15 points broke the conference record of 17 points, set by Loyola-Chicago at the 2019 MVC Championships. The Ramblers occupied the top four positions, while their fifth-highest scorer took seventh.
- No men's team has won at least three straight conference team titles since Bradley won five in a row from 2015-19. No women's team has achieved the feat since Loyola-Chicago won three straight from 2019-21.
- Jayde Rosslee is coming off back-to-back meets in which he ran 8K times of 23:01.2 at Notre Dame and 23:02.6 at Newman Golf Course. The former marked a new program record by over 40 seconds.
- This is the first MVC Championship meet to be hosted in Des Moines since 2013. That year's MVC Championship saw Bradley place second (women) and fourth (men) at Blank Golf Course.
- This is only the fourth time it has been held in Iowa's Capital City since 1982 (1990, 2003, 2013, 2026).
- Noelle Steines has been the highest-finishing Brave in all four of Bradley's meets this season with two wins and a second-place finish.
- Looking ahead, the Braves will compete in the NCAA Midwest Regional in Ames, Iowa, on Friday, Nov. 13, after the conference championships.
