NDSU women, SDSU men crowned #SummitXC Champions

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – North Dakota State’s girls, ranked No. 10 within the Midwest Area, and South Dakota State’s males, ranked No. 4 within the Midwest Area, walked away with the 2022 Summit League Cross Nation Championship titles Saturday at Ray Richards Golf Course in Grand Forks, N.D.
 
The Bison girls secured 38 whole group factors for his or her fifth Summit League crown. South Dakota State completed runner-up with 68 whole group factors whereas North Dakota totaled 100 factors for third. St. Thomas (133), South Dakota (139), Kansas Metropolis (140), Omaha (157), Oral Roberts (202) and Western Illinois (213) rounded out the standings on the ladies’s facet.
 
The Jackrabbit males recorded a complete of 18 factors for his or her league-record seventh-consecutive championship title. North Dakota State’s 64 factors secured second whereas St. Thomas completed in third with 78 whole factors. North Dakota (109), South Dakota (126), Western Illinois (201), Oral Roberts (206) and Kansas Metropolis (207) accomplished the lads’s standings.
 
High Performers
On the ladies’s facet, the highest six finishers to cross the road all clocked below the earlier championship meet file 6K time of 20:32.92. South Dakota State’s Leah Hansen ran her manner into her third consecutive League title and Championship MVP honor after she clocked a brand new championship meet file 6K time of 20:01.9. Her win at the moment makes her the one girl in League historical past to win the championship meet three years in a row.
 
Omaha’s Kamryn Ensley grew to become the primary Maverick to take dwelling a person honor on the championship after she secured the title of Newcomer of the Championship. Ensley was the primary true freshman to cross the road clocking a personal-best time of 20:18.9 for fourth place.
 
For the lads, all the primary and second group honorees crossed the road below the earlier championship meet file 8K time of 23:53.4. South Dakota State earned its second-straight particular person honor as Ben Olson secured the person title and Championship MVP honor after crossing the end line in an 8K championship meet file time of twenty-two:56.1.
 
North Dakota State went dwelling with its second consecutive Newcomer of the Championship honor after true freshman Hunter McHenry crossed the end line in a personal-best time of 23:45.9 for 14^th place.
 
Ladies’s All-League Groups:
First Crew
Leah Hansen, South Dakota State | 20:01.9
Grace Hyperlink, North Dakota State | 20:12.0
Kaleesa Houston, North Dakota State | 20:13.5
Kamryn Ensley, Omaha | 20:18.9
Ally Ryan, Kansas Metropolis | 20:21.5
Molly Desotell, St. Thomas | 20:28.9
Jadyn Keeler, North Dakota | 20:34.1
 
Second Crew
Katherine Hanners, Kansas Metropolis | 20:38.3
Allie Wahlund, North Dakota State | 20:48.2
Reagan Baesler, North Dakota State | 20:49.9
Mya Kizer, South Dakota State | 20:54.5
McKenzie Burian, North Dakota | 20:57.5
Caitlin Shiny, South Dakota State | 20:57.7
Erin Valgardson, North Dakota State | 21:01.5
 
Championship MVP
Leah Hansen, South Dakota State
 
Newcomer of the Championship
Kamryn Ensley, Omaha
 
Scholar of the Championship
McKenzie Burian, North Dakota
 
Males’s All-League Groups:
First Crew
Ben Olson, South Dakota State | 22:56.1
Joseph Minor-Williams, South Dakota State | 23:04.2
Luke Labatte, North Dakota | 23:06.9
Tom Breuckman, South Dakota State | 23:14.8
Daniel Burkhalter, South Dakota State 23:15.8
Josh Becker, South Dakota State | 23:16.5
Biel Wiel, St. Thomas | 23:26.4
 
Second Crew
Merga Gemeda, South Dakota | 23:28.9
Hunter Klimek, North Dakota State | 23:29.0
Max Selbach, South Dakota State | 23:32.0
Jake Arason, North Dakota State | 23:36.7
Lucas Caminiti, South Dakota State | 23:39.7
Symon Keiser, North Dakota State | 23:39.9
Hunter McHenry, North Dakota State | 23:45.9
 
Championship MVP
Ben Olson, South Dakota State
 
Newcomer of the Championship
Hunter McHenry, North Dakota State
 
Scholar of the Championship
Daniel Burkhalter, South Dakota State
 
Notables

• Hansen’s profitable 6K time (20:01.9) and Olson’s 8K time (22:56.1) go down because the all-time quickest instances in Summit League historical past. The earlier instances have been held by North Dakota State’s Erin Teschuk (20:06.8) and Southern Utah’s Cameron Levins (22:58.7).  
• South Dakota State’s Leah Hansen grew to become the primary girl in Summit League historical past to three-peat the ladies’s title and take dwelling Championship MVP honors.
• The highest six girls’s finishers completed in below the championship meet file time of 20:32.92 set again in 2018 by Purdue Fort Wayne’s Emma Rafuse.
• North Dakota State gained its fifth title and second within the final 4 years.
• Hansen, Kansas Metropolis’s Katherine Hanners, North Dakota’s McKenzie Burian and NDSU’s Grace Hyperlink and Kaleesa Houston all earned All-Summit League honors for the second-consecutive season.
• South Dakota State took dwelling its league-record seventh-consecutive Summit League Championship title.
• Olson captured his fourth straight first group award and was the second straight Jackrabbit to take dwelling the Championship MVP honor.
• Olson and fellow teammates Max Selbach, Tom Breuckman, Joseph Minor-Williams and Daniel Burkhalter all earned All-Summit League first group honors for the second consecutive 12 months.

Ultimate Standings

 
Up Subsequent
All of our groups stay up for the 2022 NCAA Midwest Regional set for Friday, Nov. 11 in Columbia, Mo.
 

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