MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Senior Ceili McCabe and freshman Pleasure Naukot of the West Virginia College cross nation group have been named the Large 12 Girls’s Runner of the 12 months and Girls’s Newcomer of the 12 months, respectively, as introduced by the league on Thursday afternoon.
McCabe has been named the league’s girls’s runner of the yr for the third time in her profession, after incomes the Large 12 Girls’s Newcomer of the 12 months title in 2019.
The senior earned the accolade after ending first on the Large 12 Championships on Nov. 1 in Waco, Texas, with a personal- and program-best time of 19:02.60. The primary-place end marked the third convention title for McCabe throughout her profession.
McCabe went on to say her third NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships title on Nov. 15 in College Park, Pennsylvania. The Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, native broke a 14-year-old course report on the Blue and White Programs, operating the ladies’s 6k in 19:11.2. McCabe’s first-place end helped the Mountaineers declare the Mid-Atlantic Regional title for the primary time since 2008.
The senior concluded her collegiate cross nation profession on the NCAA Championships on Nov. 23 in Madison, Wisconsin, the place she claimed sixth place with a time of 19:41.2. With the end, McCabe earned her ninth First Group All-America honor and have become the fourth Mountaineer in program historical past to earn three All-America cross nation accolades. Moreover, she aided in capturing West Virginia’s NCAA Championship runner-up spot, which was the best end in program historical past.
Naukot earns the Large 12 Girls’s Newcomer of the 12 months award after ending because the quickest freshman on the Large 12 Championship on Nov. 1. Naukot crossed the end line in third place, turning into the quickest freshman in program historical past to run the ladies’s 6k with a time of 19:18.09.
The Kapenguria, Kenya, native went on to clinch a sixth-place end on the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships on Nov. 15 and was the primary freshman to cross the end line with a time of 19:49.4. With the position, she earned All-Mid-Atlantic Area honors.
The freshman rounded out her rookie season on the NCAA Championships on Nov.,23, incomes a Seventeenth-place end with a time of 19:50.3. Naukot was the fourth freshman to cross the championship end line and earned her first profession First Group All-America honor.
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