LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course

LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course
Interactive map of LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course
Address599 South Tabortown Street
Terre Haute, Indiana
United States
Tenants
Indiana State Sycamores
Rose–Hulman Fightin' Engineers
Website
www.laverngibson.com

The LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course is a cross country course in Terre Haute, Indiana. The course is one of the few purpose-built cross country courses in the world.[1] The facility is part of 250 acres (1.0 km2) that comprise the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center just east of the Terre Haute International Airport. The course is built on a reclaimed coal mine and consists of an external loop of 3 km and four internal loops that allow for circuits of varying lengths. Indiana State University's cross country team uses the course for its home meets.

History

The course was dedicated on October 17, 1997 for the Indiana Intercollegiate Championship. Since that time the facility has hosted multiple championship meets at the collegiate and high school level. The most prominent meet the facility has hosted has been the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships (2002, 2004–2011, 2013–2014, 2016, 2019, 2026)[2]. It has additionally hosted the NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships in 2012 and 2024. In 2004, the course became the host site of the state high school championship meet for Indiana[3], as well as the Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) Midwest Regional Meet in 2009. It has also hosted numerous other invitational and conference championship meets since it opened.

Course records

Race Runner School Time Race Date
Collegiate Course Records
Women's 6k Sally Kipyego Texas Tech 19:28.1 2008 NCAA Championship 11/25/2008
Women's 6k (old course) Joanna Nilsson Northern Arizona 19:33.9 2005 NCAA Championship 11/21/2005
Men's 8k Sam Chelanga Liberty 22:51.3 2008 Brooks Pre-Nationals White Race 10/18/2008
Men's 10k Sam Chelanga Liberty 28:41.2 2009 NCAA Championship 11/23/2009
High School Course Records
Girls 5k Zofia Dudek Pioneer High School (MI) 16:49.3 2019 Nike XC Nationals Midwest Regional 11/16/2019
Girls 4k (old course) Alexandra Banfich Culver Girls Academy (IN) 14:05.1 2005 Indiana HS State Championship 10/29/2005
Boys 5k Hunter Jones Benzie Central High School (Benzonia, MI) 14:21.8 2022 Nike Cross Nationals Midwest Regionals 11/13/2022

References

  1. ↑ "LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course". laverngibson.com. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  2. ↑ https://gosycamores.com/facilities/lavern-gibson-championship-cross-country-course/8
  3. ↑ https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Boys%20Cross%20Country%20Records%20Book.pdf

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