Race Results (htm)
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- Longwood University posted 300 points in women's cross country to finish 11th among 12 teams at the 2012 Big South Cross Country Championships hosted by Winthrop University Saturday at the Winthrop Coliseum and Farm in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Liberty University won the conference team title with 40 points, including four of the top 10 runners, led by Jennifer Klugh who was the individual race winner with her time of 17:18 over the 5K course. The Lancers were once again led by senior
Alisha Royal|Vinton (William Byrd) with her time of 18:25 over the 5K course to place 12th among the field of 97 league competitors. Longwood will participate in the NCAA Southeast Regional Cross Country Championships on Friday, November 9, at McAlpine Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. The women's 6K race will start at 12 p.m.
Royal ran her fastest 5K of the season, and also the third-fastest 5K in the program's history, and was followed across the finish line by junior
Crystal Baxley|Virginia Beach (First Colonial) (21:18, 78th), sophomore
Elisabeth Drake|Hayes (Gloucester) (21:25, 80th), senior
Jenna Sprinkle|Buchanan (James River) (21:41, 82nd), sophomore
Brittany Foote|Goshen, N.Y. (Goshen) (21:50, 85th), seniors
Megan Short|Sicklerville, N.J. (Timber Creek) (21:59, 87th) and
Rebecca Denny|Virginia Beach (Kempsville) (22:16, 88th), along with junior
Emberli McGann|Stuarts Draft (Stuarts Draft) (24:11, 93rd). Royal now owns seven of the all-time 10 fastest times for the distance in the 12-year history of the program, including the three fastest 5K times (18:22, 18:23, 18:25). Sprinkle, Denny and McGann each also ran season-best 5K times, and Denny was named to the Big South All-Academic Team, as well.
Liberty was followed by Coastal Carolina (72), High Point (73), Winthrop (136), UNC Asheville (140), VMI (142), Campbell (148), Charleston Southern (239) and Radford (239), Gardner-Webb (264), Longwood (300) and Presbyterian (389). Individually, the top-10 finishers each earned All-Big South Conference honors. Royal missed the accolade by only two places and 11 seconds.
