Owls Back on the Course for Holloway Classic

Friday, October 17

Lakeland, Fla.

6 p.m.

Florida Atlantic

Ed Holloway Classic

Photo by: Mauricio Paiz

10/16/2025 6:31:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Women's XC/Track & Field

LAKELAND, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic men's and women's cross country teams return to compete at the Holloway Classic on Friday, Oct. 17. Men will compete first to start the evening, and the women will follow to close out the day.

The race will take place at Holloway Park. The men will race an 8k at 6 p.m. and the women will start the 6k at 6:45 p.m.

Florida Atlantic will conclude the regular season in Lakeland. The Owls have not raced since the first week of October and will travel to Concord, N.C., for the 2025 American Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday. Nov. 1.

COMPETING TEAMS

Beacon College
Bethune-Cookman
Eckerd
FGCU
Florida Atlantic
Florida Southern College
Flagler
New College of Florida
Saint Leo
Stetson

LAST TIME OUT
Women (6K)

At the FSU Invitational, Rosa ten Berg finished the day setting a new career-best in her first collegiate 6k after her performance.
Sophomore Madison Brown ran a 6k for the first time as an Owl. She finished with a time of 23:00.5.
Three runners from FAU crossed the finish line within seconds of each other (Brown, Elyssa Toal, and Anabell Reumann).
FAU had six runners within the top 100 on the day (ten Berg, Brown, Toal, Reumann, Isabel O'Brien, and Sophie Dethier).
The freshman Dethier also ran her first collegiate 6k and recorded a 23:07.3.

Men (8k)

Sophomore Donovan Petty was the second Owl to finish the race and finished with a time of 27:02.3.
Freshman Nayzer Franco ran his first collegiate 8k, finishing with a 27:29.0 on the morning.
Nate Webb also participated in his first 8k of his collegiate career.
Both Franco and Webb (28:28.7) set a career best on the day in the 8k.