Six Razorback greats, including football stars Felix Jones, Clint Stoerner and men’s basketball standout Oliver Miller, headline the 2025 class of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame which was announced on Wednesday.
Razorback Yaseen Abdalla was named the 2024 South Central Region Athlete of the Year based upon voting by coaches in the USTFCCCA.
Ranked No. 3 the entire cross country season, Arkansas placed third in team scoring at the 2024 NCAA Championships on Saturday with a point total of 202 points while three Razorbacks earned All-America honors for placing among the top 40 individuals.
The final meet of the 2024 collegiate cross country season features the No. 3 Razorbacks challenging for a national championship over a 10,000m distance on Wisconsin’s Thomas Zimmer Championship course this Saturday at 10:10 a.m.
SEC Cross Country awards for the 2024 season include Razorback Patrick Kiprop being named men’s SEC Runner of the Year along with Arkansas men’s head coach Chris Bucknam earning SEC Coach of the Year for the 12th time in cross country.
A 1-2-3 Razorback sweep, led by individual winner Kirami Yego, propelled No. 3 Arkansas to a convincing team victory in the South Central Region on Friday morning on Texas A&M’s Watts course.
Final results
No. 3 Arkansas returns to Texas A&M’s Watts course for the NCAA South Central Region meet on Friday, November15. This time the Razorbacks will race over a 10,000m distance with a start time of 10 a.m.
No. 3 Arkansas successfully defended its SEC Cross Country Championship on Friday morning with a 38-point tally as Razorback senior Patrick Kiprop claimed the individual title in an 8,000-meter course record of 21 minutes, 57.1 seconds on Texas A&M’s Watts course.