SOMERS, Wis. - The Concordia-St. Paul men's and women's cross country teams had their second race of the season at today's 36th Annual Midwest Open hosted by the University of Wisconsin Parkside. In addition to the trip to race at the Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course, the Golden Bears served the community through volunteering at Friedens Community Ministries.
The women placed fifth of five at the Division II meet which also included host and champion Wisconsin-Parkside, Winona State, Michigan Tech and St. Joseph's (Ind.).
Concordia's men also finished fifth of five at the Division II meet as well behind the same teams with Michigan Tech and Winona State flipping their order of finish from the women's run.
After competing on each of the last two Saturday's, the team will take next weekend off while training for the Roy Griak Invitational at Les Bolstad Golf Course on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Falcon Heights on Saturday, September 26. The Griak course is the site of the 2015 NSIC Championships, hosted by Concordia on Saturday, October 24.
Individual Performances
Men- Caleb Troe – 27:30.6. Today, Caleb establishes a new personal best time with a one minute and 27.4 second improvement from his time last week. Caleb runs the 4th fastest time by a Concordia athlete on the UW-Parkside Course (Only behind Josh Smith, Jonathan Breitbarth, and Nic Rudolph) and best time ever by a Concordia freshman on that course. He is now the 12th fastest Concordia first year runner of all time at the 8 Kilometer distance.
- Tyler Karl – 28:52.0. Tyler establishes a new season best time with a three minute and 52 second improvement from his time at Crown College last week. Tyler runs the 12th fastest race by a Concordia athlete on the UW-Parkside course and establishes the 2nd best time on that course by a Sophomore (only behind Marcus Breitbarth). Tyler runs 25 seconds faster on this same course this year than he ran in October last year. Today, Tyler ran his second fast time ever in his college career only 10 seconds off his personal best established in October at St. Cloud last year.
- Sam Anderson – 28:57.1. Sam establishes a new season best time with a two minute and 34.9 second improvement from his time last week. Sam runs the 13th fast race by a Concordia athlete on the UW-Parkside course and the 3rd fastest time by a senior (only behind Jonathan Breitbarth and Nic Rudolph)
- Mohamed Malim – 33:41.6. Mohamed establishes a new collegiate official personal best time with a huge improvement of 4 minutes and 11.4 seconds from his time at Crown College last week.
- Bob Etheridge – 35:36.3. Bob establishes a new season best time with the biggest improvement of any Concordia athlete who ran last week's meet. Bob improved by four minutes and 23.7 seconds.
Women- Ruth Lindberg – 20:31.6. Ruth establishes a new personal best time. She establishes a new Concordia first year runner mark for the UW-Parkside course by running 44.4 seconds faster than Jordan Gray ran last year. She now has Concordia's sixth fastest 5 Kilometer on the UW-Parkside course (only behind Emily Stanzyk, Janet Brownawell, Erin Spatenka, Jodi Werman, and Emily Shoop). She is the 8th fastest Concordia First year cross country runner at the 5K distance in school history
- Maggie Marcus – 20:34.7. Maggie establishes a new season best time. She runs the 8th fastest race for Concordia University athlete on the UW-Parkside course. She becomes the 5th fastest Concordia cross country senior at the 5 Kilometer distance (only behind Emily Shoop, Jodi Werman, Emily Stanzyk, and Sarah Keiser) while running the 10th fastest race by a Concordia senior. Maggie runs the second fastest 5 Kilometer cross country race of her life.
- Erin Spatenka – 20:37.8. Erin establishes a new season best time. She runs the 9th fastest race for a Concordia University athlete and 2nd fastest Concordia junior on the UW-Parkside course. Erin runs the
- Rachel Thaemert – 22:49.7 Rachel establishes a new season best time. She runs her 2nd fastest 5 kilometer race of her college career. She runs the 6th fastest time for a Concordia junior on the UW-Parkside course.
- Courtney Ramsay – 24:40.9 Courtney establishes a new season best time. She runs the 4th fastest 5 kilometer race for a Concordia first year student.
