Principia College's Casey Powell, a junior from Colorado Springs, Colo., has been named the Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week for the week of September 19-25. This marks the third time this season that she has earned the honor.

Powell ran a time of 23:16 on the 6K course to place 26th out of 323 runners competing at the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational hosted by Augustana College (Ill.). She was the top runner from the SLIAC and helped her squad to a 16th place finish out of 27 teams competing.

"Casey [Powell] moved up steadily through the field, running a tactically (nearly) perfect race and had a very strong showing in what is likely a 'pre-regional' warm-up," stated Principia head coach Chuck Wilcoxen.