Conferencec Carolinas Announces Cross Country Runners of the Week
CONFERENCE CAROLINAS ANNOUNCES
CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERS OF THE WEEK
Mount Olive’s
Long Named Women's Runner of the Week
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday,
September 7, 2011
High Point, N.C.> Mount Olive College’s Chelsea Long
has been selected as the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas
women's cross country Runner of the Week during week number one in
the 2011 season. Chelsea Long shattered an eight-year-old Mount
Olive College women's cross country record for the fastest time in
the 5k as she won the MOC Invitational for the second year in a row
and helped lead the Trojans to the team title. Long posted a time
of 18:31.80, eclipsing the previous record by more than 11 seconds
and beating her own personal best by 16 seconds. Long, who finished
first out of 24 runners, also won the event as a freshman last
year.
Barton’s Serem
Named Men’s Runner of the Week
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday,
September 7, 2011
High Point, N.C.> Barton College’s Sammy Serem
has been selected as the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas
men's cross country Runner of the Week during week number one in
the 2011 season. Senior Sammy Serem set a personal record at the
UNC Invitational on Friday, helping the Barton men's cross country
team to a second place finish in the tri-meet defeating NCAA DI
Gardner-Webb University by one point. Serem's sub-16 minute time of
15:23 was good for 6th place out of 26 harriers in the primary DI
field. The Nindi Hills, Kenya, native averaged a 4:58 mile pace in
his first meet on the year.