SPOKANE, Wash. –
The Queens University of Charlotte Men’s Cross Country Team
raced to an 18
th place finish at the 2011 NCAA Cross
Country Championships today with a score of 432 in a light snow
storm. Western State took the title with a score of 27. Adams State
scored a 69 for second place, while Grand Valley State took third
with a score of 100. 24 total teams competed in today’s
race.
Felix
Duchampt (Clermont Ferrand, France, Lycée Jeanne d'Arc
) turned in a time of 32:19.8 to finish in
48
th individually.
Chris
Enriquez (Downey, Calif., Warren) (33:00.0) was
75
th, while
Simon
Stuetzel (Meinborn, Germany) (33:22.9) took 93
rd.
Anthony
Mallory (Merced, Calif., Golden Valley Merced
) and
Benny
Perez (Ceres, Calif., Ceres ) completed
Queens’ scoring clocking in at 33:49.1 and 35:00.5,
respectively.
Ryan Haebe of Western State became the first individual national
champion for the Mountaineers since 2001, and only the second
student-athlete in Western State history to win a men's cross
country national championship. Michael Aish won national titles in
1999 and 2001.
The Mountaineers finished with all five scoring runners in the top
13 of the overall results and top 12 of the scoring runners. After
Haebe and Tyler Pennel, David Goodman placed fifth in 31:05.1, Gabe
Proctor in seventh in 31:11.7 and Trevor Blackman rounded out the
scorers by checking in at 13th place with a time of 31:36.8. No
other team had more than three runners in the top 20. Western State
finished with six All-Americans after Adam Sinda placed No. 30
overall.