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Mon, Nov 9, 2009 - [Cross Country]

MARION, Ind. -- The NAIA released the qualifiers for the NAIA Cross Country National Championships on Monday night and the Indiana Wesleyan University women's cross country team earned an at-large selection.

The national meet will be held on November 21 at Fort Vancouver Historic Site in Vancouver, Washington. The women's race will start at 2:45 p.m. ET.

Indiana Wesleyan finished second in the Mid-Central College Conference Championship race this past weekend. The conference champion earns the automatic bid to the nationals, forcing IWU to wait until Monday night to learn their fate.

The Wildcats are ranked No. 19 in the last NAIA Top-25 Coaches' Poll and received one of six at-large bids. Twenty-five conference champions also made the field plus one host team. The race will also have 117 individual runners from teams that did not qualify.

On the men's side, Ethan Naylor qualified as an individual courtesy of his third place finish at the MCC Championships. His race will begin at 1:30 p.m. ET.

CLICK HERE for NAIA Women's Cross Country Qualifying Page