Led by a championship performance from sophomore Alyssa Harmon, the Northwest Christian University women's cross country team took care of business on Saturday, winning NCU's first ever Cascade Collegiate Conference championship.

It has all been leading up to this. The Cascade Collegiate Conference cross country championship races take place on Saturday at Fernhill Park in Portland. Both the NCU men's and women's teams are shooting for historic accomplishments this weekend.

The Beacon women's cross country team dropped one spot to No. 4 in the final regular season edition of the NAIA national coaches poll, released on Wednesday.

The Northwest Christian University fall sports teams placed 24 athletes on the U.S. Bank Academic All-Cascade Collegiate Conference team as announced by the conference offices on Wednesday.

The Beacon women's cross country team remains at No. 3 in the sixth edition of the NAIA national coaches poll, released on Wednesday. It is the highest ranking in school history and the third time they have achieved the mark.

The NCU women's cross country time trial experiment was a huge success on Tuesday as four Beacons broke 18 minutes and all eight runners ran in what would have been personal best times. Shea Vallaire led the charge with an incredible time of 17:23 over...