The men’s cross country team, also in its first year, will send two individual runners to the National Championships and may qualify for an at-large bid, which will be announced next week.

The Indiana Tech women, all freshmen, won the meet with 59 points. The team’s average time for the 5K run was 18:57.25. Individual times were:

• Kara Van Horn (Huntington, Ind.), 18:41.19, 5^th place
• Leah Blakemore (Flint, Mich.), 18:45.70, 6^th place            
• Felicia Mondry (Grandville, Mich.), 18:51.94, 9^th place
• Alyssa Webb (Indianapolis, Ind.), 19:05.74, 14^th place
• Mika Davis (Modoc, Ind.), 19:21.68, 25^th place
• Brittney Howland (Grandville, Mich.), 19:51.53, 41^st place
• Kim Matusik (Crown Point, Ind.), 20:00.80, 47^th place 

The men’s cross country team, also all freshmen, finished 5th with 125 points and an average time of 26:11.72 for the 8K run. The two runners who qualified for the national meet were:

• Camron Walter (South Whitley, Ind.), 25:20.01, 6^th place
• Matt Ditzler (Huntington, Ind.), 26:00.20, 20^th place

The NAIA National Championships will be run Nov. 17 at Dr. Wayne E. Dannehl Cross Country Course, Kenosha, Wis. For more information on the national championships, visit www.naia.org.