Wayne State University men’s and women’s cross country head coach, Grant Lofdahl, is entering his ninth season at the helm for the Green and Gold. Ahead of the 2025 campaign, the women’s squad received 80 votes and was picked third in the GLIAC Cross Country Preseason Poll. On the men’s side, the Warriors appear fourth after earning 53 points.
Before the GLIAC Championship in October, both the men’s and women’s teams will compete in five events, with the season beginning at the Hillsdale Invitational at Hayden Park on Friday, September 5, before WSU hosts its annual Warrior Challenge one week later (September 12) at Willow Metropark. The two squads will then travel to Kenosha, Wis., for Parkside’s Lucian Rosa Invitational on Saturday, September 27. Wayne State will next see action at the Jayhawk Invite (October 11) before closing the regular season at the SVSU Red October Meet on Friday, October 17.
The WSU men will have 15 runners who have earned letters including Brady Heron (Northville, Mich.), Ty Nagy (Commerce Township, Mich.), Sean Pettis (Fremont, Mich.), and Jared Platt (White Lake, Mich.) who all competed in the 2024 Midwest Regional. Anthony Vinson (Macomb, Mich.), Eli DiCerbo (Clinton Township, Mich.), Adam Hafeli (Lake Orion, Mich.), and Aidan Lobsinger (Grand Blanc, Mich.) return as multi-year letterwinners.
Wayne State’s men’s cross country team will add four freshmen in Ishaan Kundapur (Northville, Mich.), James Latstetter (Flushing, Mich.), Ayden Mcdonald (Novi, Mich.), and Neil Oyer (Traverse City, Mich.) plus one transfer, Glen Davis (Burtchville, Mich.), to bolster the 2025 roster.
