Despite an offseason filled with coaching changes and transfers, No. 2 Oregon women’s cross country finished in third at the NCAA national championships in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday.

Behind a third-place run by Jessica Hull, the Pac-12 champion Ducks came third while Pac-12 rivals Colorado won the championship with Dani Jones the first-place finisher. Hull ran the 6K race in 19 minutes, 50.4 seconds, just eight seconds behind Jones.

Weronika Pyzik was the next best Oregon runner finishing in 12th, while Carmela Baez came 31st to help the Ducks earn the third-place team finish following the team’s win at NCAA West Regionals.

Colorado won the team title with New Mexico as the only other team in front of the Ducks in Wisconsin. It’s Colorado’s first team title since 2004 and first time since 2000 that it has won the individual and team titles.

It was quite the different race for the men, which earned an at-large bid for the race in Wisconsin. The team finished 15th place as Jackson Mestler came 73rd, the highest spot of any Duck. Blake Haney finished 85th and Cooper Teare was the 94th runner to cross the finish line.

Northern Arizona won the team title while Colorado was the highest-finishing Pac-12 team in fourth. Stanford’s Grant Fisher was the best Pac-12 individual runner with a second-place finish behind Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald, who won the race in 29:08.22.

With the cross country season ending, Oregon track and field will soon shift its focus to the indoor season with the UW Preview kicking the season off in Seattle on Jan. 12.

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