Ferris State Senior Trevor Holowaty Chosen To Compete In NCAA Cross Country Championships

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PLEASE NOTE: The times of the races have been adjusted due to weather. The women will now run at 9:30 am ET with the men racing at 10:30 am ET.

Big Rapids, Mich. - After earning all-region honors this past weekend, Ferris State University senior runner Trevor Holowaty (St. Clair) has been chosen to compete in the 2017 NCAA Division II Cross Country National Championships to be held Nov. 18 in Evansville, Ind.

Holowaty is among the national championship qualifiers for the event, which takes place at Angel Mounds Course. The University of Southern Indiana and the Evansville Sports Corporation will serve as the co-hosts of the championships. The women's race will begin at 11:15 a.m. (ET), followed by the men's race at 12:30 p.m. (ET).

In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals had to qualify in their respective NCAA regional competitions that were held this past weekend.

Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top three, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the eight regions, for a total of 24 teams. Eight additional teams were selected at-large. A minimum of 24 additional individuals were selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process.

Holowaty was one of four individuals from the Midwest Region chosen to compete along with Daniel Michalski of Cedarville, Tiffin's James Ngandu and Armando Torres from Wisconsin-Parkside.

This past weekend, Holowaty took 10th place at the 2017 NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Championships on Saturday (Nov. 4) in Cedarville, Ohio. He clocked 31:39.3 on the 10K course at the regional championships while leading FSU to a 14th-place team finish in a strong field of close to 30 teams at the Elvin R. King Cross Country Course.

Along with earning All-Region accolades this year, Holowaty also was a first-team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) selection after placing ninth overall in the 2017 GLIAC Championships on Oct. 21 in Marquette.