Wabash dominated the 2023 North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Cross Country Championship race, capturing the fourth title in program history and the first since 2014. 

Six Wabash runners earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors, led by Brayden Curnutt, with a ninth-place finish to earn Second Team All-NCAC honors. Curnutt completed the 8,000-meter course in 26:21.9. Drake Hayes also earned Second Team All-NCAC honors by finishing in 10th place with a time of 26:22.8. Jacob Sitzman added another Second Team All-NCAC performance with his 11th-place finish by crossing the line in a career-best 26:30.5.

Haiden Diemer-McKinney scored Third Team All-NCAC honors with his 15th-place finish with a time of 26:34.6. Joe Barnett joined him on the All-NCAC Third Team with a 17th-place finish at 26:39.3. Sixth-man Will Neubauer picked up Third Team All-NCAC honors with his 20th-place finish with a time of 26:49.5. Justin Santiago placed 38th in the field of 96 runners by finishing in 27:31.0. 

Wabash, picked to finish fifth in the coaches' pre-championship poll, ran away with the team title by scoring 62 points, finishing 19 points ahead of second-place Oberlin College with 81 points. Wittenberg finished in third place with 99 points, followed by Wooster in fourth (108 points). Denison took fifth place (111 points), while pre-meet favorite DePauw finished in sixth place (134 points). Kenyon (139 points) and Ohio Wesleyan (158 points) rounded out the team scoring. 

Tyler McCreary, Wabash head cross country coach, Director of Cross Country Clyde Morgan, assistant coach Bobby Thompson, and emeritus coach Robert H. Johnson were named the NCAC Men's Coaching Staff of the Year. 

 "I am very proud of the job Tyler and Bobby have done with these guys over the past few years," Morgan said. "They have done a phenomenal job developing our young men on and off the cross country course.

"As far as the young men, they executed the plan prescribed to them by Coaches McCreary and Thompson. They ran tough and smart and were extremely disciplined today."

Wabash won NCAC titles in 2011, 2013, and 2014 before adding the 2023 trophy to its collection. 

The Little Giants compete at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Cross Country Regional on Saturday, November 11, at Silver Creek Metro Park in Norton, Ohio.