MADISON – University of Wisconsin-Stout's
Mckayla Felton has been tabbed the 2024 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Kwik Trip Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year, while UW-Stout women's cross country coaching staff of head coach
Matt Schauf and assistant coaches
Abigail Fouts and Logan Gullickson were selected the Kwik Trip Coaching Staff of the Year.
Mckayla Felton, a senior from Muskego, Wis., is the first Blue Devil in program archives to receive the distinction of WIAC Athlete of the Year. She was the top WIAC runner at the NCAA Division III Championship by 15 seconds. She placed third at the NCAA Division III North Regional and seventh at the WIAC Championship. Her time of 21:41.5 at the conference championship was a season best for a 6k race.
Head Coach
Matt Schauf and assistants
Abigail Fouts and Logan Gullickson were named WIAC Women's Coaching Staff of the Year.
The Blue Devil women's team raced to second place at the WIAC Championships in Stevens Point. Stout had three individuals finish in the top-10.
Brekkyn Lammert,
Arely Jaime Luevano, and Felton earned All-WIAC honors, placing second, third, and seventh, respectively.
Two weeks later, the trio lead Stout to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Regional Championship in Northfield, Minn. Lammert placed second overall with a time of 22 minutes flat. Four seconds behind was Felton to place third in 22:04. Jaime Luevano crossed the line in 22:16 to place eighth. All three Blue Devils earned All-Region honors.
Felton, Luevano and Lammert all raced to top-100 finishes at the NCAA Division III National Championship at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terra Haute, Ind. Felton ran the 6k race in a time of 21:53 to finish 46th overall in 293 runner field. Jaime Luevano was 85th with a 22:15 and Lammert finished 91st two seconds back at 22:17.
Schauf is in his 18th season as the Blue Devil head cross country coach. Fouts is in her fourth season at Stout and Gullickson is in his 18th season with the Blue Devils. Schauf, Fouts and Gullickson also coach the Blue Devil men's cross country team.
Schauf and Gullickson received the WIAC Men's Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year in 2019.
