THIBODAUX, La. – The Nicholls State University men's and women's cross country squads continue their seasons Saturday in the Mississippi College Invitational at the Choctaw Trails.

The women's 5K is scheduled to commence at 8:30 a.m. with the men's 8K immediately following at 9:15 a.m.

"The men and women are very prepared for this last race of our regular season after having six solid weeks of training together as a team," said Nicholls head cross country coach Stefanie Slekis. "The three workouts we have done since McNeese were the best we've run all season for everyone; which has everyone pretty excited to race hard tomorrow. The women have a final opportunity to run a 5K before we move up to 6K so we're looking to race more aggressively than we have the past three meets. This will give us a better indication of where each runner should go out at the conference meet in two weeks. The men have a great opportunity to test their fitness over the conference distance, and this will be the first 8K race for JP, Trey, and Tristan, our current top-three runners."

The two squads most recently ran at the McNeese Cowboy Stampede where eight student-athletes set personal records, including Lucija Barac, Taylor Douglas and Courtney Troxclair and all five men – Tristan Breaux, Daryl Cooper, Teril Cooper, Trey Lowery and John Paul Spera.

Senior Hannah Naquin, who has fronted the pack in all three events this season, is looking to build off of her personal-best 19:19 at the LSU Invitational 5K on Sept. 16.

Teams competing alongside Nicholls and host Mississippi College include, Alabama A&M, Alabama-Huntsville, Alcorn State, Arkansas-Monticello, Belhaven, Bethel (Tenn.), Blue Mountain College, East Texas Baptist, Grambling State, Georgia State, Jackson State, Jarvis Christian, LeTourneau, Louisiana Tech, Martin Methodist, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State, Mobile, New Orleans, Northwestern State, Rust College, Southern, Spring Hill, Tougaloo, UL-Lafayette, UL-Monroe, Texas-Dallas, Texas-Tyler and William Carey.

To stay up to date with the Nicholls cross country squads, follow the teams on twitter @Nicholls_XCTF.