ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University cross country teams head to Como Park Golf Course Saturday to take part in the 2015 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships.

MIAC Championships Field:
• Augsburg, Bethel, Carleton, Concordia, Gustavus, Hamline, Macalester, Saint Benedict, St. Catherine, Saint John's, Saint Mary's, St. Olaf, St. Thomas

MIAC Championships On The Web:
Saint Mary's Video Preview

MIAC Championships Race Times:
• Women: 2:15 p.m. | Men: 3:15 p.m.
 
MIAC Championships Course:
• Como Park Course Map: Women | Men

2015 MIAC Men's Championships:
• Championships Website | Complete Championships Preview
Team-by-Team 2015 Men's Cross Country Previews
AUG | BU | CAR | CON | GAC | HU | MAC | SJU | SMU | STO | UST

2015 MIAC Women's Championships:
• Championships Website | Complete Championships Preview
Team-by-Team 2015 Women's Championships Previews
AUG | BU | CAR | CON | GAC | HU | MAC | CSB | SCU | SMU | STO | UST

Saint Mary's at the 2014 MIAC Championships:
• Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.) has enjoyed a memorable sophomore season, continually seeing his times drop with each meet he's competed in. And that trend continued on Saturday, as Newsum turned in his best performance of the season—when it mattered most. Newsum toured the eight-kilometer Como Park Course in a team-best time of 26:06, while teammate Aaron Haley (Plainview, Minn.) was right on his heels—literally—posting a time of 26:07 to help the Cardinals to a seventh-place finish at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships. Katie Stolz (Forest Lake, Minn.) led the way for the Cardinal women, clocking a six-kilometer time of 23:38 to finish 35th individually and lead Saint Mary's to a 12th-place showing | Recap
 
The 2014 MIAC Championships In Review:
• MEN: Somehow, St. Olaf found a way to improve on its stunning performance from a year ago en route to a third-straight title at the 2014 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Men's Cross Country Championships. Grant Wintheiser led an Ole sweep of the top four individual places as the team finished with the second-lowest score in conference meet history. St. Olaf finished with an astounding 16 points, four better than its score of 20 a year ago, thanks to its runners claiming five of the first six individual places. The Oles' score marked just the second time a MIAC team had scored 16 points (St. Thomas, 1948), and it was just one point off the conference record of 15, which was achieved by St. Thomas in 1952 and Macalester in 1955, 1963 and 1964. St. Olaf's score is the lowest recorded in MIAC Championship history since 1964 | Complete Men's Recap | Men's Championships Results
• WOMEN: The 2014 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Women's Cross Country Championships were held at Como Golf Course in St. Paul, Minn., but it felt a lot like Northfield as cross-town rivals Carleton and St. Olaf engaged in a thrilling duel for the title. When the dust settled, the Knights had claimed their second-straight team title by just a 16-point margin over the Oles, with Carleton's Ruth Steinke leading the way as the race's individual champ. Carleton certainly started strong with two of the first four runners across the finish line, but St. Olaf made it interesting by grouping four runners together between places eight and 12. However, the Knights had the 13th and 15 runners across the line just ahead of St. Olaf's fifth finisher (17th) to help Carleton claim the MIAC championship for the second year in a row | Complete Women's Recap | Women's Championships Results
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2015 Men's Roster * 2015 Women's Roster | 2015 Schedule | 2015 Individual Meet Times
• Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.) collected his best 8K time of the season at the UW-La Crosse Jim Drews Invitational on Oct. 14, stopping the clock in a team-best 25:41 to place 30th in the 330-plus runner field. … Newsum has posted the Cardinals' top time in each of their last three meets, while Austin O'Hare (Rushford, Minn.)—who clocked a team-best 23:42 four-mile time at the season-opening Saint Mary's Alumni Open—has be second each time. … O'Hare posted times of 26:31 at the UW-Eau Claire Invitational on Oct. 2 and 26:31 at the Jim Drews Invitational two weeks later. … Newsum—an honorable-mention All-MIAC and All-Region selection—placed 107th at the NCAA Division III National Championships a year ago, posting a school-record 8K time of 25:24. … Newsum—the first male in program history to run in the national championships—broke the school's 8K record in each of his last three races in 2014. … The Cardinal men's team's seventh-place finish at the conference championships last season was the highest in coach Ward Berndt's 10 years at the helm. … Erika Thiel (Burr Ridge, Ill.) has enjoyed a banner freshman season, shaving nearly one minute off her collegiate best time with a 6K, 24:41 effort at the UW-La Crosse Tori Neubauer Invitational on Oct. 14. … Fellow freshman Heidi Ledermann (Mahtomedi, Minn.), who was the Cardinals' top finisher in Saint Mary's first two meets, has been second to Thiel in the last two—including a career-best 6K time of 24:47 at the Tori Neubauer Invitational. …