Complete Results
Chicago, Ill. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's cross country placed 19th at the Loyola University Chicago (Ill.) Lakefront Invitational Saturday at the Lincoln Park-Montrose Avenue Beach. The Eagles finished with 520.0 team points.
Princeton University (N.J.) captured the team title with 65.0 points while Grand Valley State University (Mich.) was second with 79 and The Ohio State University third with 85.0. The University of Illinois was fourth with 110.0 points and the University of Missouri fifth with 140.0. Washington University (Mo.) was sixth with 217.0 points, the University of Arizona seventh, Loyola (Ill.) eighth with 232.0, Texas A&M University ninth with 253.0 and the University of Nebraska 10th with 304.0. A total of 33 teams competed.
Hannah Beilke led UWL with a 68th-place finish overall, completing the 5,000-meter course in 18:15.64. The Eagles'
Sarah Ziolkowski was 133rd (18:56.38),
Sadie Kroll 135th (18:57.30),
Andrea Brekken 151st (19:06.22),
Valerie Jones 165th (19:09.87),
Ellie Miller 174th (19:16.29),
Whitney Ebert 183rd (19:21.59).
"We had a tough day today," said UWL head coach
Derek Stanley. "The competition was stiff and we didn't execute off the line like we needed to accomplish what we wanted in the race. We are a better team than our results from this race, but it a good place in the schedule to begin an accent to where we should be."
UWL's
McKenzie Kirtz was 204th overall (19:30.26),
Kaylan Marshall 207th (19:30.70),
Madeline Sweeney 213rd (19:33.08),
Jaci Hinz 222nd (19:40.88),
Dakota Holzem 223rd (19:41.11),
Kayli Buchli 228th (19:42.27), Britteny Gagas 247th (19:50.82),
Anna Buchberger 254th (19:57.83),
Abbey Wedwick 259th (20:00.77),
Emma Malooly 269th (20:06.36),
Delaney Schultz 275th (20:09.70),
Ryanne Schneider 280th (20:15.72),
Linnea Cochran 282nd (20:17.11),
Megan Crawford 305th (20:36.57),
McKenzie Kruchten 317th (20:56.23), Kristin Mitchell 328th (21:23.31) and Hannah Meyer 330th (21:27.34),
Julie-Anne Staehli of the Queen's University Alumni won the individual title with a time of 16:42.74. A total of 380 runners completed the race.
UWL returns to action Saturday, October 13 hosting the Tori Neubauer Invitational at Ettrick (Wis.) Golf Club at noon.
