Hope Schmelzle competed at her first NCAA Cross Country Championships, while Matthew McClintock ran in his fourth.

Matthew McClintock and Hope Schmelzle wrap up the cross country season with a trip to the sport’s biggest collegiate stage.

Matthew McClintock finished runner-up at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional and Hope Schmelzle took seventh on the women's side.

The Boilermakers head to Madison, Wisconsin, where the women’s 6,000-meter race is set to begin at 1 p.m. ET and the men’s 10k will follow at 2 p.m.

Senior Matthew McClintock was named the Big Ten’s Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon.

Matthew McClintock made history, as he broke the Big Ten Championships 8,000-meter record and became Purdue's first Big Ten champion in 72 years.