BOSTON – Northeastern cross country and track & field head coach Tramaine Shaw announced the men's and women's cross country schedule on Wednesday. The 2024 slate includes five meets on the road ahead of conference and national championship competition.
 
The Huskies will open the season on August 31 with a trip to Amherst, Mass. for the UMass Invitational before heading to Dartmouth, Mass. for the UMass Dartmouth Invite three weeks later on Sept. 21.
 
Northeastern will kick off three meets in October by traveling to Bethlehem, Pa. at the Paul Short Invitational (Oct. 5) in its final tune-up before the New England Championships in Hopkinton, N.H. (Oct. 12) where the women's squad will look to defend its 2023 crown, a title they captured for the first time in program history a season ago.
 
Madison, Wis., the site of the 2024 NCAA Championships in late November, will host a pre-championship meet on October 19 in Northeastern's final competition of the regular season.
 
Elon University will host the CAA Championships for the first time since 2017 on Nov. 1 with the men's team in search of its first conference title since 2021 while the women's team will look to rise to the top of the league for the first time in school history.
 
The men's cross country team returns the top dog in the CAA in Benjamin Godish, who claimed the program's third consecutive individual title at the league championship meet in 2023. The Huskies recorded a top-two finish as a team for the 11th straight season, while Godish went on to compete at the NCAA Championships for the first time in his career en route to CAA Men's Runner of the Year accolades.
 
Not to be outdone, Abigail Hassman of the women's cross country team repeated as the individual champion at the conference meet last season, the first female runner in school history ever to do so. For her efforts, Hassman was named the CAA Women's Runner of the Year for the second straight year and become the first female in Northeastern history to qualify for the NCAA Championships. It also marked the first time in school history that the Huskies fielded both a male and female athlete in the national championship race.