The Great Plains Athletic Conference has announced its weekly awards for the league’s top cross country runners.
Women-Nicole Slater, Dordt College
Dordt’s Nicole Slater is this week’s GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports Women’s Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week. Slater, a freshman from Rushmore, Minnesota, ran an individual time of 16:58 in the Augustana College Twilight last Friday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She placed 12th overall out of 266 runners in the race. The race included NCAA Division I and II schools. Slater was the top finisher from a NAIA school.
Men – Alec DeVries, Morningside College Morningside’s Alec DeVries is the GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports Men’s Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week. DeVries, a sophomore from Merril, Iowa, ran an individual time of 19:03 in the Augustana College Twilight last Friday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He placed 13th overall out of 287 runners in a field that was comprised with a majority of NCAA Division I and II runners in the race. DeVries was the top finisher from a NAIA school.