App State Sweeps Cross Nation Titles for Second Straight Year

FOLEY, Ala. – For the second consecutive yr, the App State males’s and girls’s cross nation groups had been the category of the convention, with the boys sharpening off a Sun Belt Championship three-peat Friday morning after the ladies captured their second consecutive Sun Belt title. 
 
App State turns into the second program in Sun Belt historical past to comb the boys’s and girls’s titles in back-to-back years, becoming a member of Little Rock, which completed the feat in 2001 and 2002.
 
MEN’S RECAP
Pack working was pivotal for the boys’s staff, which had 5 scoring runners end within the high 9 to come back away with a staff rating of 32 factors, 51 factors higher than second-place Arkansas State’s whole. The Mountaineers had six runners place within the high 12, all forward of the No. 2 runner from Arkansas State.
 
The Mountaineers’ margin of victory on the Graham Creek Nature Preserve was the third widest within the 48-year historical past of the occasion, topped solely by South Alabama’s 62-point win in 2006 and Little Rock’s 59-point win in 2002. App State additionally turned simply the third Sun Belt males’s program to three-peat, becoming a member of WKU (1982-87) and USF (1988-90).
 
“They packed it up together and worked well together,” males’s distance coach Brad Herbster stated. “Having an eight-or-nine-second gap from your No. 1 to No. 5 is really impressive. They ran fast, but they really worked well together. They communicated throughout the race and executed well.”
 
App State has now received 5 Men’s Sun Belt Championships, and the three consecutive staff titles mark this system’s longest streak since successful six in a row from 2005-10.
 
Sophomore Henry Stark led the best way for the Mountaineers by inserting fourth with a personal-best time of 24:07 within the 8K race to earn the Sun Belt Men’s Elite Award. Freshman Noah Martinson stopped the clock with a career-low time of 24:09, good for fifth place and Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honors. 
 
Tate Shore additionally posted a career-best time, inserting sixth in 24:12 whereas becoming a member of Stark and Martinson in incomes first-team All-Sun Belt honors, whereas Thomas Wlazlowski (eighth in 24:16) and Ethan Lipham (ninth in 24:20) collected second-team all-conference honors.
 
Memphis Rich (12^th in 24:38), Aaron Kidd (seventeenth in 24:53) and Chase Burrell (18th in 24:54) additionally completed within the high 20 for App State.
 
WOMEN’S RECAP
The App State ladies did not have a top-10 finisher, however 5 Mountaineers positioned within the high 20 en path to a staff whole of 77 factors, 11 higher than the second-place whole from Southern Miss.
 
Even although eight faculties had their No. 1 runner cross earlier than the primary Mountaineer, an entire staff effort enabled App State to beat out the Golden Eagles, whose No. 3 runner completed behind the fifth and ultimate scoring runner from App State.
 
“This has been a really fun group to work with all year,” ladies’s distance coach Annie Richards stated. “I’m very proud of them and everything they’ve accomplished. Cross country is a very mental sport. It’s one that you have to put many months of preparation into to have a good result like we had today, so I’m obviously proud of how they performed on the course today, but I’m also proud of how they’ve carried themselves throughout the season.”
 
Freshman Tessa Massa completed eleventh general with a personal-best time of 17:39 within the 5K race and was named Sun Belt Freshman of the Year.
 
Fellow freshman Josie Jackson completed 14th general with a career-best time of 17:47 to affix Massa as a second-team All-Sun Belt honoree. App State sophomores Savannah Moore (fifteenth in 17:51.00) and Breanna Budzinski (seventeenth in 17:51.50) and freshman Elizabeth McCart (twentieth in 17:54) every posted personal-best finishes to earn third-team all-conference recognition whereas rounding out the scoring for the Mountaineers. 
 
The ladies’s staff additionally had a Thirty sixth-place end from freshman Ashby Williams, a Thirty seventh-place end from senior Amiyah Priebe and a 57th-place mark from freshman Allie Kinlaw.
 
App State will proceed postseason competitors on the NCAA Southeast Regional on Nov. 14, hosted by Virginia at Panorama Farms in Charlottesville, Va. The ladies’s 6K is ready for 10 a.m., with the boys’ s 10K to observe at 11 a.m. Parking for the occasion is ticketed and have to be bought on-line upfront by Nov. 10.
 
Men’s Team Results
1. App State – 32 factors
2. Arkansas State – 83 factors
3. ULM – 103 factors 
4. Texas State – 121 factors 
5. Louisiana – 133 
6. Marshall – 134 
7. South Alabama – 160
8. Coastal Carolina – 165
9. Troy – 204
 
App State All-Sun Belt Honorees
First Team – Henry Stark, Noah Martinson, Tate Shore
Second Team – Thomas Wlazlowski, Ethan Lipham, Memphis Rich
Third Team – Aaron Kidd, Chase Burrell
Men’s Freshman of the Year: Noah Martinson
Men’s Elite Award Winner: Henry Stark
 
Women’s Team Results
1. App State – 77 
2. Southern Miss – 88 
3. Texas State – 98 
4. Louisiana – 101
5. Arkansas State – 104
6. James Madison – 141
7. Coastal Carolina – 168 
8. Marshall – 192
9. ULM – 197
10. South Alabama – 293
11. Georgia Southern – 346
12. Georgia State – 354
13. Troy – 361 
 
App State All-Sun Belt Honorees
Second Team – Tessa Massa, Josie Jackson
Third Team – Savannah Moore, Bre Budzinski, Elizabeth McCart
Women’s Freshman of the Year: Tessa Massa