HBCUAC Champion Wiley, Individual Qualifiers run for 2025 NAIA National Championship
NEW ORLEANS - 2025 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletic Conference (HBCUAC) Men's Cross Country Champion Wiley University and individual HBCUAC champion Bravin Bor, Camron Gilliard and Kevin Koech from Voorhees University and Wilberforce University's Skyaqui Howard run in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) 70th Annunal Men's Cross Country National Championship at 8:30 a.m. Friday at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.
Wiley makes its second appearance as a team, with its previous appearance occurring in 2014. Javoun Goldsby, the HBCUAC Individual Runner-Up and four-time All-HBCUAC athlete, leads the Wildcats. He is making his second straight NAIA National Championship Appearance. Freshman Earl Hurd Jr. earned All-HBCUAC with a ninth place finish at the HBCUAC Championship. Dwight Bennett Jr was an HBCUAC Weekly award winner.
Bor won the HBCUAC individual championship with a meet record 28:06. Gilliard finished third at 29:07.2. Koech finished fourth at 29:25.6. Howard has set program records in his freshman season and is the first Wilberforce University athlete to qualify for the NAIA Championship. He finished fifth at the 2025 HBCUAC Championship.
Fans can watch the action on the Urban Edge Network. Live results will also be available.
About the HBCU Athletic Conference
The HBCU Athletic Conference (HBCUAC) is the only HBCU conference in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The HBCUAC membership includes Dillard University (LA), Fisk University (TN), Huston-Tillotson University (TX), Oakwood University (AL), Paul Quinn College (TX), Philander Smith University (AR), Rust College (MS), Southern University at New Orleans (LA), Stillman College (AL), Talladega College (AL), Tougaloo College (MS), University of the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas), Voorhees University (SC), Wilberforce University (OH), and Wiley University (TX). HBCUAC sponsors championships in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track and field, women's volleyball, softball, and baseball. In 2022, the HBCUAC secured the largest media rights deal in conference and NAIA history, signing a multimillion-dollar deal with Urban Edge Network. On July 1, 2024, the conference rebranded from the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) to the HBCU Athletic Conference, marking a new era for the conference that embodies the makeup of its membership. For more information, visit hbcuac.org.