Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course

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The Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course has served as host to National Junior Olympic and Junior National Cross Country Championships, as well as a variety of college and high school meets. It has served as host to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Championships, NCAA regional championships in 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2019, while hosting the 1999, 2007, 2012, and 2015 NCAA Division II Championships.

Unique in its construction, the course has a 5K loop on grass that finishes just south of the starting line through a picturesque arch that has the words MSSU Cross Country going from pillar to pillar.

The course is the annual site of the First to the Finish Southern Stampede, one of the largest high school and college cross country meets in the midwest.