Lipscomb’s women’s and men’s cross country teams are each Atlantic-Sun Conference Champions.
The victory for the women’s cross country team makes this their third consecutive time winning conference. For the men, they’ve earned their first A-Sun title.
Coming into the race, both teams were ranked number one in the coaches’ poll. Lipscomb’s men and women had four runners finish in the top seven.
The top runner for the women’s team was freshman Sally Larson, who finished fourth in the race.
“It’s awesome to have conference on our home course,” Larson said. “We have really fought with everything we had today. It was great to have so much school support here. I’m just thrilled for our team, and I’m really looking forward to the next 3 years here.”
Besides helping the Lady Bisons win conference, Larson has been named Freshman Runner of the Year.
Juan Gonzalez also had been named Freshman Runner of the Year from the men’s team.
“Everyone was ready for this. We have been training so hard from summer up until now,” Gonzalez said. “We all knew this was going to be a hard race, but in the end, we were going to do whatever it took to finish.”
Gonzalez and Larson ended their interviews giving all the credit to the Lord by saying, “All the Glory be to God.”
Coach Bill Taylor was named both the A-Sun women’s and men’s coach of the Year.
Other individual honors are as follows:
WOMENS
All-Atlantic Sun – First Team Selections
Lipscomb – Sally Larson
Lipscomb – Tessa Hoefle
Lipscomb – Madelin Talbert
Lipscomb – Dani Walker
All-Atlantic Sun – Second Team Selections
Lipscomb – Hannah Feiten
Lipscomb – Barbara Lee Ball
All-Atlantic Sun – All-Freshmen Team
Lipscomb – Sally Larson
Lipscomb – Hannah Feiten
Lipscomb – Barbara Lee Ball
Lipscomb – Kelsey Ibarra
MENS
l-Atlantic Sun – First Team Selections
Lipscomb – Juan Gonzalez
Lipscomb – Christian Freeman
Lipscomb – Daniel Gardner
Lipscomb – John Kingstedt
All-Atlantic Sun – Second Team Selections
Lipscomb – Tim Muller
Lipscomb – Jared Wingerter
Lipscomb – Geoff Musick
All-Atlantic Sun – All-Freshmen Team
Lipscomb – Juan Gonzalez
Lipscomb – Christian Freeman
Lipscomb – John Kingstedt
Photo courtesy of Lipscomb Athletics