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Northern Illinois Women's Cross Country Wraps Up Season At Midwest Regional

Huskies place 20th out of 24 teams.



Sophomore Meghan Ginter and her teammates finished the season at the NCAA Midwest Regionals on Saturday.

Nov. 11, 2006

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Falcon Heights, Minn. - Despite finishing 20th out of 24 teams at the NCAA Midwest, hosted at the University of Minnesota's Les Bolstad Golf Course, Northern Illinois assistant cross country coach Mark McConeghey could not help but notice the strides that the Huskies had made from the Mid-American Conference Championships.

"It was a great regional race," McConeghey said. "The turnaround from conference to today, was phenomenal. The girls were disappointed with their performance at the MAC Championships, but not discouraged. It was the best race of the year. The improvement that they have made from the beginning of the year until now has been great."

NIU junior Mia Supanich-Winter (Libertyville, Ill.) was the first Huskie to cross the finish line, earning a 88th-place finish of 23:21.32. Sophomore Meghan Ginter (Aurora, Ill.) added the other NIU top-100 finish with a 94th-place mark of 23:26.47. NIU sophomore Ashley Rittenbacher (New Lenox, Ill.) finished 110th overall with a time of 23:52.17, followed by a 119th-place mark of 24:01.22 from senior Jessica Schauff (Dixon, Ill.) and 134th-place finish from Denisse Valladares (Mt. Prospect, Ill.).

 

 

Illinois won the regional with 44 points, followed by the host Golden Gophers (49). Iowa placed third overall (118), followed by Nebraska (141), Oklahoma State (175), Missouri (205), Wichita State (205), Tulsa (272), Missouri State (285), Southern Illinois (304), Oral Roberts (348), Kansas (359), Northern Iowa (366), Kansas State (372), Iowa State (384), Loyola (394), Northwestern (481), Bradley (487), Drake (520), NIU (545), Saint Louis (552), Eastern Illinois (560), UIC (564) and DePaul (715).

Iowa's Diane Nukuri won the 6K race in 20:34.72, followed by Illinois' Angela Bizzarri (20:47.32), Minnesota's Emily Brown (20:48.57) and Ladia Albertson-Junkans (20:53.62), and Illinois' Stephanie Simms (21:02.12).

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