Cross Country Earns Seventh at Pac-12 Championship

Friday, October 26

Stanford, CA

12:00 PM

University of Utah

Pac-12 Cross Country Championships

Photo by: John P. Lozano

Cross Country Earns Seventh at Pac-12 Championship

10/26/2018 3:11 PM | Cross Country

Pac-12 Championships Women Results

Six Utes record new career bests.

PALO ALTO, Calif.– The Utah women's cross country team placed seventh at the Pac-12 Championships Friday morning at the Stanford Golf Course. Junior Sarah Feeny paced the Utes finishing in 21st place overall while many other Utes earned new career-bests.

"We ran hard and with terrific effort today. The women represented our program and the university in an outstanding way despite all they've been through this week," Utah head coach Kyle Kepler said. "I know they carried heavy hearts with them to the start line and they left it all on the course. I couldn't ask any more of this team. I am incredibly proud of them."

Feeny finished the six-kilometer course in a time of 20:31.9 to lead the Utes. Sophomore Bella Williams followed behind Feeny, finishing in 36th place with a new career-best time of 20:59.5, while redshirt freshman Cara Woolnough earned 44th place overall, also coming in with a new 6K career-best time of 21:14.0.

Senior Sadie Wassum and freshman Sophie Ryan rounded out the top-five scorers for the Utes. Both runners set new career-bests in the 6K, as Wassum captured 49th place with a time of 21:20.0 and Ryan placed 53rd overall with a time of 21:25.0.

Freshman Kennedy Powell finished in 56th (21:28.9), freshman Scarlet Dale captured 58th (21:31.9), and junior Sarah Newton took 67th (21:41.4) overall. It also marked new 6K career-best times for both Powell and Newton.

The Utes totaled 191 team points to capture the seventh-place finish. No. 4-ranked Oregon took home the team title with a total of 32 team points and knocked off No. 1 Colorado, who had won the conference championship the previous three years. No. 1 Colorado finished in second with 48 total team points. Rounding out the top-five teams is No. 6 Stanford (81 points, 3rd), No. 16 Washington (123 points, 4th), and UCLA (158 points, 5th).

The Utes will have the next week off and will return to action Friday, Nov. 9, at the NCAA Mountain Region Championship in Provo, Utah.

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