COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Houston move nation crew wrapped up it is pre-championship agenda on the Arturo Barrios Invitational on Friday senior Branch Cox’s first best end for the Cougars and solidifying graduate Claire Meyer because the chief for the ladies’s crew.
For the 3rd time in as many meets, Meyer crossed the road first for the Cougars with a time of 20:39.30, a brand new occupation superb time, and completed twenty seventh general in a pool of 387 completing competition. Meyer’s best time led the ladies’s crew to a twenty seventh position crew end in a box of 41 groups that produced a minimum of 5 finishers.
Senior Kelly-Ann Beckford ran the second-best time for the ladies, completing in 21:51.80 and senior Zosia Bulhak completed 3rd for the Cougars with a time of twenty-two:02.60 – each marks are private superb occasions within the 6k race.
On the boys’s facet, Cox crossed lead the Cougars for his first time in his occupation with a time of 24:24.50, which was once just right for sixty fifth position in a box of 365 finishers. The mark set a brand new private superb for the senior. Without senior crew chief Brandon Seagreaves, the boys’s crew nonetheless completed twenty fourth general amongst 39 groups with a minimum of 5 completing competition.
Sophomore Miles Cox was once the following Cougar to move the road with a time of 24:31.00 – just right for 79th general, and freshman Aaron Crittenden set a private superb time of 24:46.10 on his strategy to end 116th.
Other notable finishers, at the girls’s facet junior Eleni Kaiser posted a time of twenty-two:40.90 and freshman Carly Ahrens crossed the road in 26:17.30, each private superb occasions within the 6k race. On the boys’s facet, graduate Brycen Pitre completed in a time of 25:13.90.The freshman advanced as soon as once more with Patrick Flowers crossing at 25:29.30 mark and each Derek Waite and Michael Archie completing with a time of 25:36.60. Each freshman set new private superb occasions within the 8k race.
Houston completed above Big 12 opponent Baylor on each the boys’s and girls’s facets.
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