NEW ORLEANS – The App State men and the Arkansas State women have been predicted to win the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Cross Country Championships as determined by a vote of the league’s head coaches. The Sun Belt on Wednesday released its 2022 Cross Country Preseason Coaches’ Polls. 

The App State men earned 76 total points and five-of-nine first place votes. The Mountaineers claimed Sun Belt men’s cross country titles in 2017 and 2019. The Arkansas State men, who won the program’s first-ever Sun Belt cross country crown last season, were a close second with 74 points and three first-place votes. South Alabama, which has nine titles all-time and last won in 2020, also earned a first-place nod. 

The Arkansas State women, who have captured three consecutive Sun Belt women’s cross country titles, garnered 167 total points and 11-of-13 first-place votes. App State was predicted to finish second with 152 points and two first-place votes. 

The 2022 Sun Belt Conference Championships are set for Saturday, October 29 at Graham Creek Nature Preserve in Foley, Ala. 

2022 Sun Belt Conference Men’s Cross Country Preseason Coaches Poll
1. App State - 76 (5)
2. Arkansas State - 74 (3)
3. South Alabama - 63 (1)
T4. Marshall - 41
T4. Texas State - 41
6. Coastal Carolina - 37
7. Louisiana - 34
8. Troy - 20
9. ULM - 19

2022 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Cross Country Preseason Coaches Poll 
1. Arkansas State - 167 (11)
2. App State - 152 (2)
3. Southern Miss - 115
4. James Madison - 110
5. South Alabama - 108
6. Coastal Carolina - 102
7. ULM - 86
8. Marshall - 79
9. Troy - 60
10. Texas State - 58
11. Louisiana - 56
12. Georgia State - 50
13. Georgia Southern - 40

Parenthesis Indicate First-Place Votes