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Utah Cross Country Earns Third at Home Meet
10/19/2018 6:10 PM | Cross Country
Christensen leads the Utes while unattached Williams captures the meet title.
SALT LAKE CITY– The Utah women's cross country team placed third at the Utah Open Friday afternoon while sophomore Emma Christensen paced the Utes finishing in 11th place overall.
"I was really impressed and pleased with how everything turned out," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "The course turned out great thanks to my assistants Mackenzie Wartenberger and our director of ops Mike Tamayo. I think we did a good job of setting it up, it was very visible, and I think the kids really enjoyed it. It was a challenging course no doubt about it going up the hill to the other side of the park four time and that's not easy."
Christensen finished the five-kilometer course in a time of 19:16.7 to lead the Utes across the finish line. Coming in behind Christensen was seniors Hannah Allred and Megan Perkins. Allred finished in 14th with a time of 19:27.1 while Perkins placed 16th with a time of 19:32.4. Rounding out the top five scorers for the Utes was sophomore Astrid Lindgren and junior Anna Busatto. Lindgren earned 24th in a time of 20:14.1 and Busatto captured 27th with a time of 20:33.6.
"I thought Emma Christensen ran well again like she did a couple weeks ago up at Utah State and Hannah Allred really finally opened today and I think today was probably her best race of the season," Kepler explained. "But overall I thought all the kids ran hard and the times aren't going to be fast on a course like this."
Running unattached for the Utes and placing first in her first meet of the season was sophomore Bella Williams. Williams captured the race title finishing in a time of 18:36.8. Also running unattached for the Utes was freshman Brooke Manson. Manson placed 31st with a time of 21:24.2.
"I thought our kids ran great as well and Bella Williams how about that? I mean a dominating victory in her first cross country race of the season and that's going to create a decision process for us as coaches and how we want to proceed forward," Kepler said.
As a team, the Utes finished in third place with a total of 70 team points. No. 9 BYU took home the team title with a total of 23 team points and No. 27 Utah State placed second with a total of 39 team points. Westminster finished fourth with 110 total team points.
The Utah cross country team will be back in action next Friday, Oct. 26, at the Pac-12 Cross Country Championships in Stanford, Calif.
Fans can follow the Utah cross country program on Twitter (@Utah_trackfield), Facebook (UtahTrackXC) and on Instagram (@UtahTrackXC).
"I was really impressed and pleased with how everything turned out," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "The course turned out great thanks to my assistants Mackenzie Wartenberger and our director of ops Mike Tamayo. I think we did a good job of setting it up, it was very visible, and I think the kids really enjoyed it. It was a challenging course no doubt about it going up the hill to the other side of the park four time and that's not easy."
Christensen finished the five-kilometer course in a time of 19:16.7 to lead the Utes across the finish line. Coming in behind Christensen was seniors Hannah Allred and Megan Perkins. Allred finished in 14th with a time of 19:27.1 while Perkins placed 16th with a time of 19:32.4. Rounding out the top five scorers for the Utes was sophomore Astrid Lindgren and junior Anna Busatto. Lindgren earned 24th in a time of 20:14.1 and Busatto captured 27th with a time of 20:33.6.
"I thought Emma Christensen ran well again like she did a couple weeks ago up at Utah State and Hannah Allred really finally opened today and I think today was probably her best race of the season," Kepler explained. "But overall I thought all the kids ran hard and the times aren't going to be fast on a course like this."
Running unattached for the Utes and placing first in her first meet of the season was sophomore Bella Williams. Williams captured the race title finishing in a time of 18:36.8. Also running unattached for the Utes was freshman Brooke Manson. Manson placed 31st with a time of 21:24.2.
"I thought our kids ran great as well and Bella Williams how about that? I mean a dominating victory in her first cross country race of the season and that's going to create a decision process for us as coaches and how we want to proceed forward," Kepler said.
As a team, the Utes finished in third place with a total of 70 team points. No. 9 BYU took home the team title with a total of 23 team points and No. 27 Utah State placed second with a total of 39 team points. Westminster finished fourth with 110 total team points.
The Utah cross country team will be back in action next Friday, Oct. 26, at the Pac-12 Cross Country Championships in Stanford, Calif.
Fans can follow the Utah cross country program on Twitter (@Utah_trackfield), Facebook (UtahTrackXC) and on Instagram (@UtahTrackXC).
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