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OTF Preview: CBU Opens up 2025 Outdoor Season at RCC Invite
2/26/2025 10:52:00 AM | Cross Country & Track
RIVERSIDE--- The California Baptist University outdoor track season is set to commence this Friday as the Lancers open up its spring season down the street at the RCC Invitational.
The RCC Invite will be one of seven events for CBU during the season, with the Lancers staying in the Golden State for all of them. Some of the highlighted events will be the annual Stanford Invite in Palo Alto and the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa. However, there will also be a few new additions for CBU, including the Bob Larson Invite at UCLA and the Occidental Invitational in Los Angeles.
This will be the first outdoor season under the new leadership of Head Coach Sean Smith, who was hired in the summer of 2024 to head up the cross-country and track programs. Smith had a highly successful cross-country season for the Lancers, as the men would go on to win its fifth consecutive Western Athletic Conference title in Orem, Utah, while the women finished as runners-up for the second straight season. The men would also earn the program its highest-ever finish at Nationals with a 13th place finish while earning its first two male All-Americans. Smith was named the WAC Men's Coach of the Year as well as the Dean Miller West Region Men's Coach of the Year after leading CBU to new levels of success in his first year in Riverside.
Postseason competition will begin on May 15 for the WAC Championships in Arlington, TX hosted by UT Arlington. West Regionals will be held in College Station this season with Texas A&M playing host, and Nationals will once again be held in Eugene, Oregon, by the University of Oregon. CBU will have only one returner from last outdoor season in Lamiae Mamouni, who was First Team All-WAC in the 800M in Orem.
CBU opens up the season on Friday, February 28, at the RCC Invite.
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