Men Take Second Behind Cox Personal Best

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Sophomore Miles Cox set a brand new non-public perfect with a time of 24:12.4 within the 8k race to steer the Houston move nation workforce to a second-place males’s workforce end on the Texas A&M Invitational Friday morning whilst senior Claire Meyer completed 3rd general for the ladies.
 
Brothers, Cox and Branch Cox, led the way in which at the males’s aspect, with the latter completing tenth with a time of 24:30.1, additionally a brand new non-public perfect. Rounding out the scoring 5 have been senior Brandon Seagreaves (seventeenth) who completed in 24:49.4 and newcomers, either one of whom raced of their first collegiate 8k race, Aaron Crittenden (twentieth) completing in 24:56.7 and Michael Archie (forty fourth) who crossed the road at 25:27.3.

Houston’s males, with their second-place end, beat TCU’s males which completed fourth general. The upper workforce end cements the move nation workforce as the varsity’s first workforce to complete with a greater rating in any game towards Big 12 Conference pageant as contributors of the league. The Cougars completed with 90 issues in comparison to the Horned Frogs’ 131 issues. 

 

On the ladies’s aspect, Meyer helped clutch a fifth-place workforce end along with her time of 17:31.4 within the 5k race. Senior Kelly-Ann Beckford completed her first race of the season in 18:34.8, a brand new non-public perfect, to clutch nineteenth general. Other scoring participants have been senior Zosia Bulhak (twenty fifth) with a time of 18:45.8, junior Eleni Kaiser (forty eighth) who completed in 19:20 and newcomers Carly Ahrens (77th) completing with a time of 20:06.0 in her first collegiate 5k race.

 

Other notable finishes have been freshman Mikenna Robinson who completed with a private perfect time of 20:55.4, graduate Brycen Pitre who completed in a private perfect 26:08, sophomore Benym Fantue completing in a private perfect time of 26:08.4 and 3 newcomers operating their first 8k race with Derek Waite completing in 25:30.1, Patrick Flowers in 25:49.3 and Alan Bonner crossing the road at 26:50.4.

 

UP NEXT

Houston will take a month off sooner than coming again and competing once more in College Station, this time on the Arturo Barrios Invitational on Oct. 13.

 

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