DENVER - Utah Valley's Tyson Lambert and Missouri-Kansas City's Sarah Fogarty have been named Western Athletic Conference Runners of the Week, respectively, for the week of Sept. 7-13.
Lambert led Utah Valley to a first place finish with an individual title at the Utah Open hosted by the University of Utah. The sophomore ran the men's 6k race with a time of 19:17.3. The wolverines won the meet with 25 points overall, above Boise State with 32 and Westminster College with 80 points.
Fogarty led Missouri-Kansas City for the second week in a row and finished the race 15 seconds faster than last season, even though the course seemed to be slower for most runners this year. The junior posted a time of 18:33 in the women's 5K placing sixth, just a second out of a top-five finish out of 50 runners at the Forest Park Festival.
Other men's nominees: Bryce Miller led the UMKC men's cross country team for the second meet in a row, finishing the 5K race in 15:36 for a first place finish. Chicago State's DiJon Smith posted a personal record in the 8K race at the Bradley Intercollegiate with a time of 26:42.9 to place 20th overall for the Cougars.
Other women's nominees: Teresa Sova led Texas Rio Grande Valley with a 13th place finish out of 93 runners at the Rice Invitational with a time of 17:13.40. Utah Valley's Harley Murray took led the wolverines to a 7th place finish by winning the Utah Open with a time of 15:33.5. CSU Bakersfield's Angel Valdez led the ‘Runners for the second consecutive race. Her time of 15:54 was a CSUB record at the 4.2k and was better than her last 4k time last week (16:00). Syndia Delgado of Chicago State ran for a season-best three-mile time of 20:09.9 to lead CSU in the Bradley Intercollegiate finishing 54th out of 110 runners.