Oklahoma State University Athletics
5 National Championships
1954 NCAA National Champions
Head coach Ralph Higgins led Oklahoma A&M to the 1954 NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship. The Aggies finished the season with an 8-0 record. OSU was untouchable by season's end, winning the national championship in East Lansing, Mich. A&M landed three runners in the top 10 with all five scorers in the top 23 finishers. The Aggies' winning total of 61 points outdistanced second-place Syracuse by 57 points.
2009 NCAA National Champions
Oklahoma State won its second NCAA men's cross country championship by running as a team. Senior Ryan Vail was the first Cowboy to cross the finish line, placing seventh. Teammates Colby Lowe (eighth), John Kosgei (11th) and Girma Mecheso (24th) earned All-America honors as well to lead the way for OSU, who finished 16 points ahead of second-place Oregon. Coach Dave Smith's Cowboys also won their second-consecutive Big 12 Conference Championship and spent the entire season ranked among the top three teams nationally.
2010 NCAA National Champions
The Oklahoma State men's cross country program repeated as national champions at the 2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships, winning its third overall and second consecutive national title as three Cowboys finished in the top 10 to seal the team championship. The Cowboys dominated the field in the 10,000-meter race and scored just 73 team points, 120 better than runner-up Florida State. Wisconsin was third with 223 points, Stanford was fourth with 237 points and Oklahoma was fifth with 281 points. Oklahoma State's margin of victory is the fourth-largest in the history of the NCAA Men's Cross Country Championships.
