The Baylor men's and women's cross country teams will compete in the 19th-annual Big 12 Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kan.

The Baylor cross country team led the Big 12's 10 institutions with 20 student-athletes earning a spot on the Academic All-Big 12 team, the league office announced on Tuesday.

Coming off an injury-plagued freshman season that saw him finish seventh indoors and not even run the open quarter at the NCAA outdoor meet, no one could have predicted or even dreamed what 2004 would hold for Jeremy Wariner.

Senior Rachel Johnson claimed the Pre-National Invitational title to help the 22nd-ranked Baylor women's cross country team place seventh on Saturday at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course.

In the final race before the Big 12 Championships, the Baylor men's and women's cross country teams will run in the Pre-National Invitational on Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind.

Baylor women's cross country runner Peyton Thomas received the first Big 12 Runner of the Week honor of her career, the league's office announced on Tuesday.

For a second straight year, the Baylor women's cross country team won the HBU Invitational on Friday. Sophomore Peyton Thomas took the overall individual title with a time of 19:21.0 over the 5,000-meter course.

Like children impatiently waiting upstairs for the call down, Baylor's track and field student-athletes looked like they might bust down the garage-door entrance to the Woodall Indoor Training Facility if this went on a second longer.

A total of 20 Baylor women's cross country runners will be in action at the HBU Invitational at 5 p.m. on Friday in Houston, Texas.

After debuting at No. 24 a week ago, the Baylor women's cross country team climbed to No. 22 in the week four edition of the National Coaches Poll released Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).