Cross Country Courtesy of Middlebury Athletics

Middlebury's Audrey MacLean Repeats as USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week

For the second time this season, Middlebury's Audrey MacLean has been named the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) Women's NCAA Division III National Athlete of the Week. The senior receives the accolade for the fourth time in her career after claiming her third-straight NESCAC crown.

HIGHLIGHTS
  • MacLean finished first out of 153 runners with a clocking of 20:54.4 on the six-kilometer (6K) course, winning the event by 19.7 seconds.
  • With the triumph, MacLean became the second Panther to win three NESCAC titles alongside Dorcas DenHartog '87 (1984, 1985, 1986). She is the fourth women's athlete in league history to break the tape on three occasions, joining DenHartog, Colby's Michelle Severance (1990, 1991, 1993) and Williams' Caroline Cretti (2002, 2004, 2005).
  • The defending Division III national champion joins Jessica Manzer '04 as the lone Middlebury women's cross country runner to make the All-NESCAC First Team four times.
  • The field consisted of five teams ranked in the top 25 of the latest USTFCCCA national poll: #2 Middlebury, #4 Williams, #7 Tufts, #22 Connecticut College and #24 Bates.
MacLean and her teammates are idle this week before traveling to Trinity for the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships on Saturday, November 14 at 11:00 a.m.