COLUMBIA, Mo. — Utah Valley's Morgan Nokes and Sila Kiplagat have officially punched their tickets to the NCAA Championships on Nov. 22, marking just the second time Utah Valley will send multiple runners to the national meet.

Nokes' ticket was already secured by virtue of finishing as the third-best runner not on an automatically qualifying team at Friday's Mountain Regionals. Nokes took seventh place overall — the second-best finish by any Wolverine runner at a regional race — with a time of 20:13.0. This will be Nokes' second trip to Nationals after going with the 2023 squad, where she posted a team-best 68th-place finish.

Kiplagat secured his spot by virtue of Air Force and Northern Arizona earning at-large team bids for next week's meet. With the Falcons' and Lumberjacks' runners being taken out of the mix for individual bids, Kiplagat slid into the fourth and final spot out of the Mountain region among teams that did not qualify.

Kiplagat ran an impressive 30:22.3 10k on Friday to take 14th overall. Kiplagat's finish was the second-best by a male Wolverine and the best in 13 years. Only Josh McCabe, who took 11th back in 2012, had a better finish in a regional race.

Nokes' and Kiplagat's qualifications mark the second time Utah Valley will send multiple individuals to the national championships, with the other being the spring 2021 season when Britain Reynolds and Maddie Bench Empey each qualified. Utah Valley has also qualified twice as a team on the women's side, in 2022 and 2023.

The NCAA Championships will be held at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course on Saturday, Nov. 22. The women will race first at 8:20 a.m. MT, followed by the men at 9:10. The meet will be streamed live on ESPNU.