Summers Selected as XC Runner of the Week
 
Sophomore's 17:47 time at ND Invite earns her top conference honor

 
 
 

 
Kari Summers was named MAC Cross Country Runner of the Week on Tuesday Oct. 2, 2007.
 

 

Oct. 2, 2007

ATHENS, Ohio - After she took 45th in the top-tier Blue Division at the Notre Dame Invitational, sophomore Kari Summers (Troy, Ohio) was awarded the MAC Cross Country Runner of the Week Award, the league announced Tuesday morning.

Summers 17:47 finish was the best of all Ohio runners and the best of any MAC participant at the 54-school ND Invite, which featured 15 ranked teams. Ohio and Akron were the only MAC schools selected to participate in the top-tier Blue Division event. Kent State and Ball State competed in the lower-level Gold Division.

The Notre Dame Invitational was only the second meet Summers participated in this season, sitting out the Ohio Invitational after taking third at the season-opening Mel Brodt Invite at Bowling Green with a time of 18:01.33.

Summers shined her freshman season as well, posting three top-15 finishes. Her best was a sixth place mark at the 2006 MAC Championships when she recorded a 20:47.10 time on the rain-soaked course. At the 2006 Notre Dame Invitational Summers placed 106th and she took seventh at the 2006 Mel Brodt Invite.

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Joe Waltasti is the cross country contact in the Ohio media relations office. He can be reached via email at waltasti@ohio.edu and in the office at 740-593-0054.