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The University of Utah Athletics
Trio of Ute Runners Earn All-Pac-12 Honors
11/5/2019 11:04 AM | Cross Country
Poppy Tank and Bella Williams took home All-Pac-12 First Team honors while Sarah Feeny earned second team honors.
SAN FRANCISCO – Sarah Feeny, Poppy Tank and Bella Williams of the University of Utah cross country team took home All-Pac-12 honors late Tuesday morning the league announced.
"That's a very deserving honor for Poppy, Bella and Sarah," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "They work extremely hard to improve day-in and day-out to get better and be among the best in the league. I'm certainly very proud and very excited for them and hopeful they can use that momentum as we head into the championship season."
Tank and Williams both earned first-team honors after finishing literally a second from one another at the conference championships last week. The sixth-place finish for Tank is the third time she's placed in the top-10 in her career while her mark of 19:49.6 is a season-best. Williams clocked in at 19:50.6, which was a new 6k PR for the junior. The seventh-place finish for the English native is the second time she's came in the top-10 in her career and third top-25 finish this season.
For Feeny, it is her first time earning All-Pac-12 Second Team honors after posting her best race of the season so far at the Pac-12 Championships. The senior crossed the finish line with a new personal best in the 6k with a time of 19:55.3 for 10th – making her the third Ute to place in the top-10 that day. Her 10th-place finish is also the fifth time in her career that she's placed in the top-10.
"They're joining a very elite group of young women who have reached that status here at the U in terms of the all-conference status so I couldn't be more proud of them," noted Kepler.
The two first team honorees for Utah makes its eight first-teamers for the Utes since 2016 and 12 total all-conference awards in the last three years. Tank and Williams become just the eighth and ninth runners in program history to earn first-team accolades since joining the Pac-12.
Stanford nearly swept the major awards, earning coach of the year and athlete of the year while Washington grabbed the freshman of the year honor. The Cardinal had three runners on the first team while Utah and Washington tied for second with two apiece.
Utah will get this week off before it plays host to the NCAA Division I Cross Country Mountain Regionals on Friday, Nov. 15, at Rose Park Golf Course. The women's 6k race is slated to begin at 11 a.m. (MT) with the men's 10k race following at Noon. Gates are slated to open at 9 a.m. For more information, check out the Meet Central Page.
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