The Peacock cross country team competed at the NCAA Central Regional in Joplin, Mo. on Saturday at the Tom Rutledge Cross Country Course on the campus of Missouri Southern State University. Upper Iowa finished 34th overall as a team.
 
The University of Mary won the regional for the third straight year boasting the five runners in the top 15 including three of the first four finishers. Jaiden Schuette won the individual title over teammate Emily Roberts by 3.8 seconds. Schuette finished her 6K in 20:52.5.

Upper Iowa's runners totaled a time of 2:10:25 while averaging a time of 26:05. Serianna Dehmlow led the Peacocks and placed 145^th in a time of 24:44.9 averaging each kilometer in 3:52.9. Alyssa Weber placed 181^st with a time of 25:30.5, while Eliza Parish finished 204^th with a time of 26:17.1. Sidney Schnor placed 208^th crossing the line in 26:27.7 and Christonna Shafranski placed 224^th in a time of 27:24.6. Sammantha Larisch (227^th – 27:37.8) and Cyan McGee (228^th – 28:01.3) also raced for Upper Iowa.