The cross country season concluded Saturday with the NCAA Championships at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind. In cold and muddy conditions, the No. 10 Virginia women placed ninth and the No. 22 men finished 13th.
Senior Barbara Strehler concluded her career with an All-American performance in the women’s 6-kilometer race. She crossed the finish line in 20:35.3, which was good for 24th. Freshman Maria Hauger was next for the Cavaliers in 63rd place, junior Kathleen Stevens finished in 74th, redshirt freshman Cleo Boyd was 100th and graduate student Vicky Fouhy placed 130th.
The Cavalier women tallied 283 team points — 142 more than champion Providence — to earn its first top-10 finish since 2001.
On the men’s side, sophomore Kyle King led the way for Virginia. He ran the 10-kilometer race in 30:27.3 to finish 18th, the best individual finish in program history. Behind him was senior Thomas Porter in 63rd, sophomore Zach Herriott in 93rd, redshirt freshman Adam Visokay in 123rd and freshman Thomas Madden in 157th.
The Cavalier men totaled 370 points while champion Colorado had 149. Virginia’s 13th-place showing is the team’s best since finishing 12th in 2007 and was a slight improvement from last season’s 14th-place result.
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