West Virginia Women Finish Second at Big 12 Cross Country Championships with Three All-Big 12 Runners
The West Virginia University women's cross country team, from Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, finished second at the Big 12 Championships held October 31 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The No. 3 Mountaineers climbed steadily through the women's 6,000-meter race: sixth with 179 points at the 1,100-meter split, third by 2,100 meters, and second by the 3,000-meter mark, where they stayed to the finish, totaling 63 points behind champion BYU's 56.
Mercy Kinyanjui finished fifth in 19:42.7, Joy Naukot seventh in 19:46.0, and Sheila Chepkirui 10th in 19:51.8; all three earned All-Big 12 honors for their top-15 finishes. West Virginia next races on November 13 at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Source: GSM America
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：Woodburn Hall。来源：Wikimedia Commons（AmericanIrishman，CC0）
