Five Huskies PR as SCSU earns top-20 finish at 2022 Central Region Championships

Saturday, November 19

Joplin, Mo.

11:15 a.m. CT

St. Cloud State

NCAA Central Region Championships

Senior Clara Welhouse nears the finish line at the Central Region Championship

Five Huskies PR as SCSU earns top-20 finish at 2022 Central Region Championships

11/19/2022 4:45:00 PM | Women's Cross Country

Results

St. Cloud State places 18th among 36 teams as five runners establish new personal bests

JOPLIN, Mo. – St. Cloud State Cross Country closed their 2022 season with a strong showing at the Central Region Championships, placing 18^th among 36 regional opponents. Five Huskies ran their best collegiate 6K at the race as SCSU earned a top-25 finish for the fourth-straight season.

Greta Freed, Clara Welhouse, Cambrie Kowal, Erica Conrad and Allie Butte each set new personal bests in their final race of the season.

Cheresa Bouley was the lone Husky to place in the top-100, landing 69^th with a 22:21.1 finish. Freed ran a 23:03.4 to place 108^th while Welhouse closed her collegiate career with a personal-best 23:17.3 for 122^nd. Kowal (23:26.2, 129^th) and Conrad (23:33.7, 134^th) each PR'd to round out the Huskies' scorers. Lauren Sertich ran a 23:59.1 to place 159^th while Butte joined her in the top 200 with a 24:53.7 finish for 185^th.

Quotables – St. Cloud State head coach Sam Kettenhofen

"As a group, we were pretty aggressive at the start. It was nice to see everyone's desire to compete against the strong field in the Central Region."

"Overall, we ran very well. We had a bunch of personal bests and times to be proud of. The team should have confidence going into the indoor track season."

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