CBU wins with perfect score The California Baptist University men’s cross-country team successfully defended its Western Athletic Conference title and won the 2021 WAC cross-country championship. Florian LePallec won the individual title, and four more of his teammates followed him to help the Lancers clinch the win with a perfect score. The Lancers won while […]
Category: Cross Country
Cross-country travels across the country
The California Baptist University cross-country teams are continuing their fall campaign by traveling to South Bend, Indiana for an elite invitational competition on Oct 1. The Joe Piane Invitational, hosted by the University of Notre Dame, brings some of the best runners together from across the country to compete. “We wanted to get, in our […]
WAC headlines
Player of the Week The Western Athletic Conference recently announced their TicketSmarter WAC Men’s Soccer Players of the Week. California Baptist University’s Bryan Iliohan and Grand Canyon’s Rafael Guerrero each garnered an offensive player of the week and defensive player of the week honor, respectively. CBU won its first conference competition against the University of […]
WAC headlines
Sam Houston in FCS The new Western Athletic Conference member Sam Houston State University has garnered attention in the latest Football Championship Subdivision polls. They are ranked first in the STATS Perform Top 25 and AFCA Top 25 polls. Fellow WAC member Stephen F. Austin State Universty also received votes in the AFCA and STATS […]
Lancer of the issue: Ivo Balabanov
Name: Ivo Balabanov Major: Kinesiology Year: Graduate Student Sport: Cross-country Notable Achievements: Won the 2021 men’s 10000-meter Western Athletic Conference title Set the CBU 8000-meter cross-country record in 2021 Favorite Moment: “My favorite moment was winning the WAC championship in Texas. Ever since I’ve been here [at CBU] that’s been my goal.” Most Proud Of: […]
Cross-country teams hit ground running
The California Baptist University men’s and women’s cross-country teams hit the ground running to open the fall 2021 season with a perfect win at the Anteater Opener, hosted by the University of California, Irvine. The CBU cross-country teams swept both team and individual titles, repeating their dramatic sweep of the 2020 Western Athletic Conference championships. […]
Cross country teams both clinch WAC title
The California Baptist University cross country teams swept both the men’s and women’s individual Western Athletic Conference championship titles, along with both the men’s and women’s WAC team titles. The CBU women’s cross country team won its third consecutive WAC title. The team has now won every WAC championship it has competed in. CBU’s junior […]
International students bond through athletics while learning new culture
California Baptist University athletics attracts many international students to study and compete in the United States, with some teams having more international athletes than American athletes. The cross country and women’s golf teams are teams whose rosters are predominantly filled by international students. Jocelyn Chee, senior applied statistics major and captain of the women’s golf […]
Cross Country takes home 1st, 2nd at WAC championships
For the second year in a row, California Baptist University’s women’s cross-country team took first place in the Western Athletic Conference Championship while the men’s team finished second on Nov. 2 at the 2019 WAC Championships at Swope Park in Kansas City, Mo. CBU’s women’s cross-country team had an excellent season leading into the championship […]
Athletes improve their mental performance
It is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical. Research shows that most athletes agree the mental aspect of the game is greater than the physical. At California Baptist University, most teams are working to better understand and improve on the mental challenges with the help of Dr. Ed Garrett, certified mental performance consultant, more […]