ST.LOUIS, MO. -- The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference has announced the Players of the Week for the week of October 21st. Principia College's
Wylie Mangelsdorf and
Sarah Litwiller sweep the men's and women's cross country runner of the week awards for the fourth time this season! See below for the full SLIAC writeup on these runners:
Men's Cross Country
Wylie Mangelsdorf (Principia College), a senior from Palmer, Alaska, took 12
th place at the Brooks Invitational hosted by Wisconsin-OshKosh. Mangelsdorf finished the 8K race with a time of 24:57 just 37 seconds behind the race winner. This marks the fourth time this season that he has earned SLIAC Men's Runner of the Week.
Women's Cross Country
Sarah Litwiller (Principia College), a junior from Concord, Calif., nearly set a personal record this past weekend with a time of 22:45 in the 6K Brooks Invitational hosted by Wisconsin- OshKosh. Litwiller finished just 1:41 behind the race winner and used a late surge over the final 2K to make her way past roughly 100 other runners. This marks the fourth time this season that she has earned SLIAC Women's Runner of the Week.
