On March 5th both SDSU Men’s and Women’s team took home the cross country summit league trophies. This continues the Men’s championship streak to four years in a row which ties them for the longest streak in summit league history. With both the Men and Women winning the title it is also the first time since 2004 that a school won in both Men’s and Women’s categories.
Some notable performances from the day was Leah Hansen with a time of 21:45.60 in the 6k which is her personal best. This time punched her ticket into the NCCA National Championship. While Hansen would come in first the top 5 runners were 4 jackrabbits. Ellie Friesen with a time of 21:55.69, Anna Donnay with a time of 21:58.00, and Cailee Peterson with a time of 22:14.10. This was the first time since 2008 that the women won the title.
On the Men’s side Joseph Minor-Williams placed second with a time of 25:01.49 in his 8k run. Following him Tomas Breuchman recorded a time of 25:03.69 for third place, Ben Olson recorded 25:05.28 for fourth, Gabe Peters recorded 25:21.21 for sixth place, and Max Selbach recorded 25:24.08 to finish seventh. Half of the top 10 runners consisted of jackrabbits.
The Men now tie Southern Utah record of longest championship streak(1995-2001) hopefully the jackrabbits are looking to continue that coming next year.
As the season comes to a close the women’s team were honored with 4 out of 7 runners making First team summit league with the addition of Leah Hansen winning the Championship MVP. On the men’s side they had 5 out of 7 make the first team.
