COLUMBIA, Mo.—Sophomore Charlie Moore (Brisbane, Australia) and junior CJ Sullivan (Milton, Mass.) were separated at the finish line by barely more than a second at the national championships on Saturday morning. The pair represented Villanova as individuals at the 2025 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships to extend the Wildcats streak of either a team berth or individual qualifiers for the national meet to 19 straight seasons.
 
Moore was an automatic individual qualifier coming out of the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional last week and Sullivan earned one of just two at-large individual spots from the entire country. Each of the two are in their first or second year of collegiate cross country eligibility. Moore was running at an NCAA Championships meet for the first time in his career, while Sullivan had been part of the Villanova lineup which qualified for the national meet during his redshirt freshman season last year.
 
This year's NCAA Championships were held on the Gans Creek Cross Country Course at the University of Missouri. Moore and Sullivan were each in the top half of the field of 261 runners, with Moore crossing the finish line 120^th overall with a time of 29:45.8 on the 10,000-meter course. Sullivan cut more than five seconds off the time he posted at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional last week and finished 126^th with a time of 29:47.1. The mark was nearly eight seconds faster than either of the two times that Sullivan recorded at the regional and national meets a year ago when he stepped up to the 10K distance for the first time.
 
Villanova's championship qualifying duo each earned All-BIG EAST and Mid-Atlantic All-Region accolades on the road to the NCAA Championships. Moore came in seventh at the regional meet last week and Sullivan was 10^th.