2019 NCAA Division III Midwest Regional |
Final Results
WINNECONNE (November 16, 2019) - Senior
Brittany Staab paced the UW-Stout women's cross country team at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship Saturday at Lake Breeze Golf Club near Oshkosh.
Staab guided a young Blue Devil team to a 14th place finish out of 35 teams by placing 27th of 257 runners. Staab ran a time of 23-minutes, 3.1-seconds, besting a time of 23:08.8 when the Blue Devils competed on the same course during the UW-Oshkosh Kollege Town Sports Invitational in mid-October. Staab moved up one spot from last year's regional meet where she earned all-region honors with a 28th place finish.
Stout's next four finishers were freshmen.
Dalie Thomas placed 80th (24:08.4),
Breanna Reinhart 82nd (24:09.6),
Katelyn Brockman 103rd (24:34.1) and
Rachel Jackson 128th (25:01.1). Sophomore
Alyssa Dalke was 130th (25:02.7) and junior
Lauren Mickley was 140th (25:21.2).
Washington University and the University of Chicago finished first and second, respectively, to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship next weekend. UW-La Crosse was third, UW-Eau Claire fourth and Wheaton College fifth.
Staab is on the bubble as far as qualifying to the national championship.
The top two teams in each gender will secure automatic berths into the NCAA Division III Championships that will be held next Saturday (Nov. 23) at the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park in Louisville, Ky. Sixteen other at-large bids will be awarded from the nation's eight total regions. The top seven individual finishers from each region not on one of the team qualifiers will also earn an invitation to the national championships.
