WHEELING — The 2025 Mountain East Conference Cross Country Championships will take place today at Oglebay Resort.

The MEC Women’s Championship 6K is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. on the Crispin Golf Course, with the MEC Men’s Championship 8K to follow at 10:30 a.m.

The women’s race will feature the top two individual finishers from a year ago in Davis & Elkins’ Lauren Twyman and Point Park’s Cassondra O’Connor.

Twyman defeated O’Connor in last year’s race, but O’Connor swept the MEC Runner of the Year, which is via a vote of the league’s head coaches, and Freshman of the Year, which goes to the top rookie finisher in the event.

The D&E men are the defending champions after ending Charleston’s six-year run as the MEC’s title-holders.

At last year’s event, the Senators had seven of the top 12 finishers to take home the team title, plus the Runner of the Year and Coach of the Year honors.

The key to D&E’s title defense will be Jordan Thomas, an All-MEC first team performer at last year’s championship meet. Thomas finished 10th a year ago, and twice this season was named the MEC Cross Country Runner of the Week.