Romeoville, Ill. - The Lewis University women's cross country team tallied 40 points en route to capturing their fourth consecutive GLVC Women's Cross Country Championship and seventh overall in program history.
Along with his teams successes, head coach
James Kearney was named the GLVC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year as well.
The Flyers claimed two of the top three places in the 6k as junior
Mary Edwards (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) came in second (21:38.62) and senior
Josephine Bober (Lockport, Ill./Lockport) rounded out the top three (21:39.76). Maddie Miller-Ross of UIS won the conference's individual championship with a final time of 21:35.04. The Flyers tallied two more top-10 finishes as well with
Madilyn Calloway (Rochester, Ind./Rochester Community) (22:04.43) and
Kate Guderjan (Frankfort, Ill./Lincolnway East) (22:10.11) landing in eighth and 10th respectively. Freshman
Louisa Wilson (Williamsville, Ill./Williamsville) rounded out the Flyers scoring runners as she placed 17th with a time of 22:36.45. All five runners collected All-GLVC honors as well.
Still, they were not the only Lewis runners to earn all-conference accolades as junior
Katie Melzer (Yorkville, Ill./Yorkville) placed 18th (22:38.42) and junior
Megan Garrett (Charleston, Ill./Charleston) finished 19th (22:41.03) to land within the top 20 to earn the accolade.
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The Flyers will head to Kenosha, Wis., for the NCAA Midwest Regional.
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