2025 Women's Cross Country Roster
Roster
Grace Buschling
- Position:
- Distance
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Clark County High
- Hometown:
- Kahoka, Mo.
Collegiate XC PR | 5k:Â 19:08.9 (9/1/23), 6k: 23:18.3 (10/13/23)
Honors
MVC Honor Roll: 2022-23
MSU Athletic Director's Honor Roll: Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Fall 2025
2024
Competed in four meets for the Bears ... Ran a season-best 5k at the Queen City Twilight (9/13) with a time of 19:43.76 and a season-best 6k at the Gans Creek Classic (9/27) with a time of 23:31.1 ... Assisted the Bears to an eighth place finish in the Open race at Gans Creek.
2023
Competed in three meets for the Bears ... Ran a career best 5k at the Mizzou XC Opener (9/1) with a time of 19:08.9 and a 26th place finish ... Competed in the Evansville Angel Mounds Invitational (10/13) where she recorded another career best with a 23:18.3 6k ... Finished 50th at Evansville.
2022
Competed in 4 meets for the Bears during her freshman season ... Ran a season-best 5-kilometer time of 19:55.8 at the Arkansas Chile Pepper Festival (9/30/22) ... Raced in her first collegiate 6k at the Platte River Rumble (10/14/22) with a time of 23:58.4 ... Earned MVC Honor Roll status ... Named to the MSU Athletic Director’s Honor roll during the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters. Â
High School
Standout performer at Clark County (Mo.) in Kahoka ... Finished in the top-10 three times at the Missouri state cross country meet, clocking a personal best of 19:49 (5K) her senior year (2021) ... Placed 2nd in the 3200m at the state track meet her senior year ... Helped her cross country team to a third-place team finish her freshman year.
Personal
Grace N. Buschling was born 7/18/04, in Keokuk, Iowa... Daughter of Jeff and Angela Buschling of Kahoka, Mo. ... Has two sisters, Rachel and Renae ... Majoring in Nutrition and Dietetics.Â
