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MONTANA STATE Bobcats ::: 2025 Men's Cross Country

MONTANA STATE Bobcats

2025 Men's Cross Country

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Season Summary

Season Team Rankings and Finishes

Coaches’
Rank
    FINAL
Team Rank
First Stick
National NCAA DI
#11 Regional Mountain 11th Sam ELLS (42nd)
  Conference Big Sky 3rd Owen SMITH (6th)
  NCAA DI Pre-National 11th Owen SMITH (17th)
  Gans Creek Classic 31st Owen SMITH (79th)

Athletes

Top Athletes Projection (TAP)

This is a projected listing of a team’s “A-team” as determined by participation in national, regional, or conference championship events. If prior to championship events, this list is the top-seven athletes based on head-to-head competition within the team during the regular season in countable, at-large eligible races (meeting date and distance criteria) in which those top athletes race.
  NCAA DI Mountain Regional

November 14
10.0k (6.2M)
11th place (303 pts)
Big Sky Cross Country Championships

November 1
8.0k (4.9M)
3rd place (76 pts)
NCAA DI Pre-National

October 17
8.0k (4.9M)
11th place (294 pts)
Gans Creek Classic

September 26
8.0k (4.9M)
31st place (752 pts)
Owen SMITH (SR)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:00.9 (M) 4:51.2
Billings, Mont.

60th 3
32:11.4
(KM) 3:13.1 / adj: 3:09.1
(M) 5:10.8 / adj: 5:04.4
6th 1
24:08.5
(KM) 3:01.0
(M) 4:51.4
17th 1
23:32.3
(KM) 2:56.5
(M) 4:44.1
79th 1
23:36.8
(KM) 2:57.1
(M) 4:45.0
Sam ELLS (JR)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:01.8 (M) 4:52.6
Kalispell, Mont.

42nd 1
31:25.5
(KM) 3:08.5 / adj: 3:04.5
(M) 5:03.4 / adj: 4:57.0
10th 2
24:28.0
(KM) 3:03.5
(M) 4:55.3
21st 2
23:44.8
(KM) 2:58.1
(M) 4:46.6
147th 2
24:09.6
(KM) 3:01.2
(M) 4:51.6
Ryan HARRINGTON (FR)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:05.8 (M) 4:59.0


54th 2
31:59.3
(KM) 3:11.9 / adj: 3:07.9
(M) 5:08.8 / adj: 5:02.4
15th 3
24:47.7
(KM) 3:05.9
(M) 4:59.2
105th 5
24:47.6
(KM) 3:05.9
(M) 4:59.2
185th 3
24:26.9
(KM) 3:03.3
(M) 4:55.1
Harvey CRAMB (JR)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:08.5 (M) 5:03.3
Brisbane, Australia

87th 6
33:21.9
(KM) 3:20.1 / adj: 3:16.2
(M) 5:22.1 / adj: 5:15.8
27th 5
25:22.3
(KM) 3:10.2
(M) 5:06.2
85th 4
24:30.9
(KM) 3:03.8
(M) 4:55.9
187th 4
24:29.7
(KM) 3:03.7
(M) 4:55.6
AJ RINGERT (FR)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:08.3 (M) 5:03.1


67th 4
32:23.9
(KM) 3:14.4 / adj: 3:10.4
(M) 5:12.8 / adj: 5:06.4
25th 4
25:19.3
(KM) 3:09.9
(M) 5:05.6
139th 6
25:05.9
(KM) 3:08.2
(M) 5:02.9
200th 5
24:39.7
(KM) 3:04.9
(M) 4:57.6
Eli BOPPART (SO)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:14.5 (M) 5:13.1


91st 7
33:35.9
(KM) 3:21.6 / adj: 3:17.6
(M) 5:24.4 / adj: 5:18.0
50th 7
26:19.2
(KM) 3:17.4
(M) 5:17.6
213th 7
25:54.3
(KM) 3:14.2
(M) 5:12.6
223rd 7
25:12.4
(KM) 3:09.0
(M) 5:04.2
Ben SAELENS (JR)
adj. season avg: (KM) 3:14.3 (M) 5:12.7
Seattle, Wash.

81st 5
33:10.1
(KM) 3:19.0 / adj: 3:15.0
(M) 5:20.2 / adj: 5:13.8
35th 6
25:43.5
(KM) 3:12.9
(M) 5:10.5

Season Race-by-Race Results

November 14 NCAA DI Mountain Regional
Salt Lake City, Utah * Regional Athletic Complex (host: Utah)
10.0k (6.2M)

Montana State Starters
Squad
Place
Overall
Place
Athlete Year Time Points Team
Gap
Rolling
Avg
1 42nd Sam ELLS JR 31:25.50 42 31:25.5
2 54th Ryan HARRINGTON FR 31:59.30 54 0:33.8 31:42.4
3 60th Owen SMITH SR 32:11.40 60 0:45.9 31:52.0
4 67th AJ RINGERT FR 32:23.90 67 0:58.4 32:00.0
5 81st Ben SAELENS JR 33:10.10 80 1:44.6 32:14.0
6 87th Harvey CRAMB JR 33:21.90 (86) 1:56.4 32:25.3
7 91st Eli BOPPART SO 33:35.90 (90) 2:10.4 32:35.4
Team Scores
Team
Rank
Score 1-5
Gap
TAP
s/f
Team NCAA DI
Region
Conference
1st 37 1:00.7 7s/7f #2 New Mexico Mountain 1 AQ Mountain West (1)
2nd 67 0:41.3 7s/7f #11 BYU Mountain 2 AQ Big 12 (4)
3rd 82 0:22.8 7s/7f #8 Northern Arizona Mountain 3 Big Sky (1)
4th 114 0:44.7 7s/7f #10 Colorado Mountain 4 Big 12 (3)
5th 127 1:03.0 7s/7f #20 Air Force Mountain 5 Mountain West (3)
6th 186 0:21.2 7s/7f Utah State Mountain 6 Mountain West (5)
7th 215 2:04.3 7s/7f Weber State Mountain 7 Big Sky (2)
8th 243 2:01.6 7s/7f Utah Valley Mountain 8 WAC (2)
9th 252 3:02.3 5s/5f Texas Tech Mountain 9 Big 12 (6)
10th 291 3:25.2 7s/7f Wyoming Mountain 10 Mountain West (4)
11th 303 1:44.5 7s/7f MONTANA STATE Mountain 11 Big Sky (3)
12th 356 0:48.6 6s/6f Colorado State Mountain 12 Mountain West (6)
13th 386 2:15.2 6s/6f Idaho State Mountain 13 Big Sky (4)
14th 408 2:21.3 7s/6f Southern Utah Mountain 14 WAC (3)
15th 417 1:59.7 7s/6f Montana Mountain 15 Big Sky (5)
16th 468 1:44.8 6s/6f New Mexico State Mountain 16 Conference USA (5)
17th 489 3:47.6 7s/6f UTEP Mountain 17 Conference USA (6)
18th 511 2:19.9 7s/6f Nevada Mountain 18 Mountain West (8)
0 1s/1f Northern Colorado Mountain Big Sky (9)

November 1 Big Sky Cross Country Championships
Bozeman, Mont. * Bridger Creek Golf Course (host: Montana State)
8.0k (4.9M)

Montana State Starters
Squad
Place
Overall
Place
Athlete Year Time Points Team
Gap
Rolling
Avg
1 6th Owen SMITH SR 24:08.50 6 24:08.5
2 10th Sam ELLS JR 24:28.00 10 0:19.5 24:18.2
3 15th Ryan HARRINGTON FR 24:47.70 14 0:39.2 24:28.0
4 25th AJ RINGERT FR 25:19.30 22 1:10.8 24:40.8
5 27th Harvey CRAMB JR 25:22.30 24 1:13.8 24:49.1
6 35th Ben SAELENS JR 25:43.50 (31) 1:35.0 24:58.2
7 50th Eli BOPPART SO 26:19.20 (45) 2:10.7 25:09.7
8 51st Niko MANN SO 26:26.60 2:18.1 25:19.3
9 57th Quinn NEWMAN FR 26:45.60 2:37.1 25:28.9
10 60th Blaise SNOW FR 26:57.10 2:48.6 25:37.7
Team Scores
Team
Rank
Score 1-5
Gap
TAP
s/f
Team NCAA DI
Region
Conference
1st 20 0:33.7 7s/7f #8 Northern Arizona Mountain 3 Big Sky (1)
2nd 58 1:21.2 7s/7f Weber State Mountain 7 Big Sky (2)
3rd 76 1:13.7 7s/7f MONTANA STATE Mountain 11 Big Sky (3)
4th 128 1:20.5 6s/6f Idaho State Mountain 13 Big Sky (4)
5th 146 1:05.7 7s/7f Montana Mountain 15 Big Sky (5)
6th 170 0:58.2 5s/5f Idaho West 23 Big Sky (6)
7th 204 0:48.5 7s/7f Eastern Washington West 25 Big Sky (7)
8th 244 1:56.3 6s/6f Portland State West 28 Big Sky (8)
9th 247 3:26.1 1s/1f Northern Colorado Mountain Big Sky (9)
10th 255 4:28.4 1s/1f Sacramento State West Big Sky (10)

October 17 NCAA DI Pre-National
Columbia, Mo. * Gans Creek Cross Country Course (host: Missouri)
8.0k (4.9M)

Montana State Starters
Squad
Place
Overall
Place
Athlete Year Time Points Team
Gap
Rolling
Avg
1 17th Owen SMITH SR 23:32.27 16 23:32.3
2 21st Sam ELLS JR 23:44.71 20 0:12.5 23:38.5
3 77th Blaise SNOW FR 24:25.49 76 0:53.2 23:54.2
4 85th Harvey CRAMB JR 24:30.90 82 0:58.6 24:03.3
5 105th Ryan HARRINGTON FR 24:47.52 100 1:15.3 24:12.2
6 139th AJ RINGERT FR 25:05.87 (125) 1:33.6 24:21.1
7 213th Eli BOPPART SO 25:54.25 (177) 2:22.0 24:34.4
Team Scores
Team
Rank
Score 1-5
Gap
TAP
s/f
Team NCAA DI
Region
Conference
1st 119 0:46.5 6s/6f #24 Georgia South 3 SEC (2)
2nd 164 0:51.5 7s/7f Missouri Midwest 7 SEC (5)
3rd 178 1:12.1 7s/7f #22 Ole Miss South 2 AQ SEC (10)
4th 183 0:29.7 7s/7f Texas South Central 5 SEC (7)
5th 192 0:52.1 7s/7f Loyola-Chicago Midwest 5 Atlantic 10 (1)
6th 257 0:11.2 7s/7f Minnesota Midwest 6 Big Ten (7)
7th 263 2:11.1 7s/7f Wichita State Midwest 8 American (3)
8th 268 2:15.5 6s/5f #18 Arkansas South Central 2 AQ SEC (4)
9th 290 0:45.0 7s/7f Purdue Great Lakes 8 Big Ten (6)
10th 291 2:04.4 7s/6f Florida South 7 SEC (11)
11th 294 1:15.2 6s/6f MONTANA STATE Mountain 11 Big Sky (3)
12th 300 1:49.8 7s/7f Wyoming Mountain 10 Mountain West (4)
13th 311 2:00.0 6s/6f Kentucky Southeast 8 SEC (8)
14th 311 0:31.5 6s/6f Cal Poly West 11 Big West (1)
15th 345 1:04.9 7s/7f Kansas Midwest 11 Big 12 (5)
16th 375 1:12.4 6s/6f San Francisco West 14 WCC (5)
17th 389 1:47.6 6s/6f South Dakota State Midwest 10 Summit League (1)
18th 397 1:38.5 5s/5f Tennessee South 4 SEC (9)
19th 443 1:38.3 7s/7f Florida State South 10 ACC (12)
20th 477 0:56.5 7s/7f Youngstown State Great Lakes 12 Horizon (1)
21st 580 2:36.0 5s/4f Liberty Southeast 13 Conference USA (2)
22nd 618 1:03.5 7s/7f Miami (Ohio) Great Lakes 14 Mid-American (2)
23rd 636 2:30.6 6s/6f Idaho State Mountain 13 Big Sky (4)
24th 642 1:21.5 5s/5f Illinois Midwest 16 Big Ten (13)
25th 664 1:14.7 5s/5f Kansas State Midwest 21 Big 12 (11)
26th 665 1:05.2 6s/5f Santa Clara West 20 WCC (6)
27th 728 2:30.4 5s/4f Nebraska Midwest 28 Big Ten (15)
28th 734 1:16.1 7s/7f Saint Louis Midwest 25 Atlantic 10 (8)
29th 744 0:45.7 7s/7f Indiana State Great Lakes 23 Missouri Valley (7)
30th 768 0:50.0 4s/4f Iowa Midwest 15 Big Ten (14)
31st 990 2:32.1 1s/1f (“B”) Northern Colorado Mountain Big Sky (9)
0 4s/4f Colorado State Mountain 12 Mountain West (6)

September 26 Gans Creek Classic
Columbia, Mo. * Gans Creek Cross Country Course (host: Missouri)
8.0k (4.9M)

Montana State Starters
Squad
Place
Overall
Place
Athlete Year Time Points Team
Gap
Rolling
Avg
1 79th Owen SMITH SR 23:36.78 78 23:36.8
2 147th Sam ELLS JR 24:09.59 140 0:32.8 23:53.2
3 185th Ryan HARRINGTON FR 24:26.90 172 0:50.1 24:04.4
4 187th Harvey CRAMB JR 24:29.66 175 0:52.9 24:10.7
5 200th AJ RINGERT FR 24:39.62 187 1:02.9 24:16.5
6 213th Blaise SNOW FR 24:54.06 (197) 1:17.3 24:22.8
7 223rd Eli BOPPART SO 25:12.31 (206) 1:35.6 24:29.8
8 229th Quinn NEWMAN FR 25:25.37 1:48.6 24:36.8
Team Scores
Team
Rank
Score 1-5
Gap
TAP
s/f
Team NCAA DI
Region
Conference
1st 47 0:30.7 5s/5f #3 Iowa State Midwest 2 AQ Big 12 (2)
2nd 107 0:16.7 4s/4f #7 Virginia Southeast 3 ACC (1)
3rd 126 0:32.7 5s/5f #10 Colorado Mountain 4 Big 12 (3)
4th 193 0:55.1 5s/5f #6 Alabama South 1 AQ SEC (1)
5th 199 0:26.0 6s/6f #11 BYU Mountain 2 AQ Big 12 (4)
6th 229 0:35.2 6s/6f #4 Syracuse Northeast 1 AQ ACC (2)
7th 237 0:45.0 6s/6f #16 Butler Great Lakes 2 AQ Big East (1)
8th 239 0:29.2 5s/5f #8 Northern Arizona Mountain 3 Big Sky (1)
9th 311 0:45.7 4s/3f #12 Wake Forest Southeast 1 AQ ACC (3)
10th 334 1:06.9 6s/6f #23 Michigan State Great Lakes 4 Big Ten (2)
11th 366 1:32.5 6s/6f #21 Tulane South Central 1 AQ American (2)
12th 401 0:53.5 6s/6f Missouri Midwest 7 SEC (5)
13th 412 1:11.9 5s/5f #27 Princeton Mid-Atlantic 1 AQ Ivy League (1)
14th 451 0:57.6 4s/4f Stanford West 6 ACC (7)
15th 454 2:12.8 7s/6f #17 Washington State West 3 WCC (1)
16th 467 0:35.3 6s/6f #20 Air Force Mountain 5 Mountain West (3)
17th 485 1:15.4 5s/4f #9 Eastern Kentucky Southeast 2 AQ ASUN (1)
18th 491 0:55.5 6s/6f #31 Michigan Great Lakes 5 Big Ten (4)
19th 509 0:21.2 7s/7f Lipscomb South 5 ASUN (2)
20th 526 1:32.6 4s/3f #22 Ole Miss South 2 AQ SEC (10)
21st 561 1:04.3 5s/4f Furman Southeast 7 SoCon (1)
22nd 599 0:42.2 6s/6f Gonzaga West 8 WCC (3)
23rd 609 1:39.1 7s/6f Florida South 7 SEC (11)
24th 615 0:30.3 4s/4f #32 Iona Northeast 2 AQ Metro Atlantic (1)
25th 645 1:16.7 5s/5f Utah Valley Mountain 8 WAC (2)
26th 662 0:38.3 6s/6f Portland West 5 WCC (2)
27th 684 0:40.1 4s/4f Duke Southeast 9 ACC (9)
28th 694 0:55.5 7s/6f Navy Mid-Atlantic 5 Patriot (1)
29th 704 1:13.5 5s/5f Weber State Mountain 7 Big Sky (2)
30th 713 2:56.0 5s/5f Texas Tech Mountain 9 Big 12 (6)
31st 752 1:02.9 6s/6f MONTANA STATE Mountain 11 Big Sky (3)
DNF 6s/4f 5s/3f Tennessee South 4 SEC (9)

September 26 Gans Creek Classic Black
Columbia, Mo. * Gans Creek Cross Country Course (host: Missouri)
8.0k (4.9M)

Montana State Starters
Overall
Place
Athlete Year Time
209th Ben SAELENS JR 25:59.53
224th Niko MANN SO 26:17.13

August 29 Bobcat Twilight
Bozeman, Mont. * Dyche Field (host: Montana State)
5.0k (3.1M)

Montana State Starters
Squad
Place
Overall
Place
Athlete Year Time Points Team
Gap
Rolling
Avg
1 1st Sam ELLS JR 14:54.9 1 14:54.9
2 2nd Owen SMITH SR 14:59.4 2 0:04.5 14:57.1
3 4th Harvey CRAMB JR 15:05.0 3 0:10.1 14:59.7
4 5th Blaise SNOW FR 15:08.2 4 0:13.3 15:01.8
5 6th Ryan HARRINGTON FR 15:12.8 5 0:17.9 15:04.0
6 8th AJ RINGERT FR 15:13.1 (7) 0:18.2 15:05.5
7 10th Quinn NEWMAN FR 15:18.4 (9) 0:23.5 15:07.4
8 12th Eli BOPPART SO 15:34.7 0:39.8 15:10.8
9 20th Ben SAELENS JR 15:56.1 1:01.2 15:15.8

Season Individual Results

Owen SMITH – SR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 14:59.4 2nd 2
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 23:36.8 79th 1
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 23:32.3 17th 1
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 24:08.5 6th 1
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 32:11.4 60th 3

Sam ELLS – JR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 14:54.9 1st 1
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 24:09.6 147th 2
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 23:44.8 21st 2
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 24:28.0 10th 2
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 31:25.5 42nd 1

Ryan HARRINGTON – FR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:12.8 6th 5
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 24:26.9 185th 3
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 24:47.6 105th 5
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 24:47.7 15th 3
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 31:59.3 54th 2

Harvey CRAMB – JR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:05.0 4th 3
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 24:29.7 187th 4
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 24:30.9 85th 4
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 25:22.3 27th 5
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 33:21.9 87th 6

AJ RINGERT – FR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:13.1 8th 6
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 24:39.7 200th 5
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 25:05.9 139th 6
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 25:19.3 25th 4
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 32:23.9 67th 4

Eli BOPPART – SO

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:34.7 12th 8
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 25:12.4 223rd 7
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 25:54.3 213th 7
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 26:19.2 50th 7
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 33:35.9 91st 7

Ben SAELENS – JR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:56.1 20th 9
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) Black 8.0k (4.9M) 25:59.6 209th
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 25:43.5 35th 6
Nov 14 Mountain 10.0k (6.2M) 33:10.1 81st 5

Niko MANN – SO

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) Black 8.0k (4.9M) 26:17.2 224th
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 26:26.6 51st 8

Quinn NEWMAN – FR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:18.4 10th 7
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 25:25.4 229th 8
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 0
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 26:45.6 57th 9

Blaise SNOW – FR

Date Meet Distance Time Place
Aug 29 Bobcat Twilight 5.0k (3.1M) 15:08.2 5th 4
Sep 26 Gans Creek Classic (College) 8.0k (4.9M) 24:54.1 213th 6
Oct 17 Pre-Nats 8.0k (4.9M) 24:25.5 77th 3
Nov 1 Big Sky 8.0k (4.9M) 26:57.1 60th 10