The UL women’s cross country team won the program’s first Sun Belt Conference championship Friday at the Graham Nature Preserve in Foley, Alabama.
The winning effort was in dominant fashion with 46 points, followed by Southern Miss as the runner-up with 81 and James Madison at 86.
Three of UL’s runners placed in the top seven to catapult the team to victory. Isabelle Russell paced the Cajuns with a third-place finish with a time of 17:18.06, followed closely by Ella Segura in fifth place at 17:33.18.
Teurlings Catholic product Angelle Dupuis was seventh with a 17:37.75. Also, Brooke Berger was 12th with a time of 17:54.59, while Chloe Crowell was 19th at 18:04.06.
Moreover, four of UL’s five finishes are from Louisiana with Russell coming from Benton, Segura from Jennings, Dupuis from Lafayette and Crowell from Slidell. Berger is from Elmhurst, Illinois.
In fact, of UL’s eight runners, six are from Louisiana, besides one each from Georgia and Illinois.
In the individual standings, Marshall’s Rachael Withrow claimed top honors with a new Sun Belt championship record time of 16:15.7, followed by runner-up Aiden Harrand of Southern Miss with a 17:04.4.
Withrow won all five meets she competed in this season.
On the men’s side, UL finished seventh with 181 points. Appalachian State won the men’s title with 21 points, followed by Arkansas State with 77 and Marshall with 91.
Individually, UL’s Matthew Maynard led the Cajuns with a ninth-place finish in 25:58.55, followed by Peyton Bourgeois in 38th with a time of 25:58.55.
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