Cross Country

Loeffler Shines as Trinity Women are Third and Men Fifth at SCAC Meet

Georgetown, Texas - Trinity's men's and women's cross country teams competed at the SCAC Championships this morning, finishing third as a team in the women's race, and fifth in the men's meet.

Emily Loeffler was the standout runner for Trinity on Saturday, winning the women's event to earn SCAC Women's Runner of the Year honors for 2007.  Loeffler becomes Trinity's first women's runner to win the SCAC Championship meet, coming in at 22:33.70. 

First-year Caitlin Masse finished third for Trinity, while Jennifer Burn was 13th overall.  Masse and Burn join Loeffler as All-SCAC runners for this season.

DePauw won the women's team title with a score of 29, followed by Colorado College (49) and Trinity (59).  Rhodes finished fourth in the meet with a score of 103 in the women's event.

On the men's side, Chass Armstrong finished fifth to lead the Tigers, earning All-SCAC honors for his performance.  Jeremy Daum also achieved All-Conference status with his 11th place finish on Saturday. 

Colorado College won the men's event with a team score of 37, and had each of the first three individual men's finishers.  DePauw was second with a 63, followed by Rhodes (78) and Centre (89).  Trinity finished fifth with a score of 129 in the meet.