Western Kentucky’s cross country team will be on the road this weekend as the men’s and women’s squads head to Music City for the Commodore Classic hosted by Vanderbilt in Nashville.

The event will begin on Saturday at 9 a.m. with the men’s 8K before the women’s 5K at 10 a.m.

The 15th annual Commodore Classic will take place at Vaughn’s Gap, in Nashville’s Percy Warner Park. The course runs through more than 10 miles of woodlands.

Traveling for the Hilltoppers for the third-straight weekend will be Matthew Wininger, Emerson Wells, Dedrick Troxell, Clint Sherman and Luke Hoover for the men. On the women’s side, Brianna Wolken, Heather Whitlow, Abby Luce, Morgan Kannapel and Aairiona Hayden-Ransom will make the trip.

Whitlow led the WKU women for the second consecutive race last time out, finishing fourth overall on the women’s side with a mark of 21 minutes, 58.2 seconds. For the men, the squad was again led by Wininger (22:28.4) and Wells who followed directly behind (22.38.6).

This marks the third of four consecutive weekends that the WKU distance squads will head to Tennessee. In the next trip, WKU will head over to Clarksville for the Austin Peay Cross Country Festival on Sept. 23.