Kunkel Earns First Team All-Conference as Tops Wrap Up CUSA Championships

Kunkel led The Red and White on Saturday, ending seventh and incomes First Team All-CUSA. The ladies would end in ninth whereas the boys wrapped up seventh place.

HOW IT HAPPENED 

The ladies’s 6k race kicked off the 2025 CUSA Championships Saturday morning. Kunkel led WKU once more, ending inside the top-10, putting seventh. Kunkel’s time of 20:36 was not solely a PR for the native of Bedford, Ky. but additionally the third finest 6K time in WKU History, courting again to 1985.

Kunkel was adopted by Brooke Greenwell who completed contained in the top-50, taking forty seventh within the race. Greenwell was the second of 5 Hilltoppers within the ladies’s race to set a private finest. Kathryn Harris, Caterina Rossomanno, and Sofia Witt all adopted swimsuit, crossing the end line in a brand new report time. Hannah Glassmeyer competed in her first meet as a Hilltopper and claimed 87th place.

The males’s 8k acquired underway at 10 a.m. CT. Jake Younger was the primary Hilltopper to cross the end line, checking in at twenty eighth. Five Hilltoppers adopted behind Younger, every ending within the top-40. Mikie Carnell, Sam Herbig, and Trevor Hudnall all set private bests within the course of.

Two veterans for the boys additionally managed to set a private report Saturday morning. Bowling Green native Michael House completed in 25:41 and senior Wade Balcom set a brand new finest, checking in at 25:53.

In whole, 5 males and 5 ladies set new data on the course Saturday morning. The males completed up seventh out of 10 with 161 factors and the ladies completed ninth out of 12 with 220 factors.

NOTABLES 

• Kinley Kunkel set one other new finest within the 6k race, ending in 20:36, good for seventh place and First Team All-CUSA.
• Kunkel improved over 28 seconds from her earlier PR set on the Angel Mounds Invitational on Oct. 17
• Kunkel’s time is the third finest in program historical past within the ladies’s 6k.
• Her time can be the perfect in a 6k race since becoming a member of Conference USA again in 2014.
• Kunkel is simply the third ever for WKU to earn First Team All-CUSA and the primary since 2015.
• Kunkel has now completed within the top-10 in three of 4 meets this season.
• In whole, 10 Hilltoppers completed with a brand new private finest Saturday morning. Five for the ladies and 5 for the boys.
• Greenwell completed inside the top-50, taking forty seventh with a private finest mark of 21:56.
• Jake Younger led the best way for the boys on Friday morning, ending in 25:03, good for twenty eighth place.
• Mikie Carnell adopted shut behind and set PR whereas claiming thirty second place.
• Another freshman in Sam Herbig joined Carnell and set a PR with a mark of 25:30.
• Trevor Hudnall set a PR on Saturday, ending in 25:35 and cracking the top-40.
• Michael House improved his 8k time by 32 seconds, ending in 25:41.
• Wade Balcom was the ultimate Hilltopper to report a private finest, ending in 25:53, three seconds quicker than his earlier.
• The males completed with 161 factors as a group, marking the perfect end for the Hilltoppers within the CUSA Championships since 2014, their first 12 months within the league.

Women’s Results – ninth Place (6k)
seventh – Kinley Kunkel – 20:36.31*
forty seventh – Brooke Greenwell – 21:56.50*
57th – Kathryn Harris – 22:12.11*
58th – Caterina Rossomanno – 22:14.62*
84th – Sofia Witt – 23:34.90*
87th – Hannah Glassmeyer – 24:00.19

Men’s Results – seventh Place (8k)

twenty eighth – Jake Younger – 25:03.70

thirty second – Mikie Carnell – 25:07.68*

thirty third – Ryan Hendrix – 25:13.52

thirty fifth – Hollis Johnson – 25:27.26

thirty eighth – Sam Herbig – 25:30.95*

thirty ninth – Trevor Hudnall – 25:35.08*

forty second – Michael House – 25:41.18*

forty ninth – Wade Balcom – 25:53.06*

67th – Bryce Revo – 26:50.08

seventy fifth – Rowen Wilkinson – 27:52.41

NEXT UP

WKU will compete within the NCAA Southeast Regional meet on Friday, Nov. 14. The meet might be held in Charlottesville, Va.

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