SAN MARCOS, Texas – The Texas State cross country teams open the season on Friday at the Baylor Twilight in Waco, Texas. Thursday afternoon the Sun Belt Conference release the cross country preseason polls that saw the men be selected to finish third and the women picked seventh.
Friday's meet will begin at 7 p.m. at the Heart of Texas Soccer Complex. The women will run first on a 4K course with the men following in a 6K race afterwards.
In the preseason poll, the men received 71 points. The only teams to finish ahead of them were UTA (99 pts; 9 first-place votes) and Louisiana (89 pts; 1 first-place vote).