Grinnell College recently issued the following announcement.
Saturday's NCAA Division III Midwest Region Championships cross country race was twice as nice for Grinnell College's Emma Schaefer '23.
Schaefer not only earned All-Region honors for the first time in her career, but moved up from eighth to sixth on Grinnell's all-time leader board with a personal-best clocking.
Schaefer placed 22nd of 163 runners on the Saukie Golf Course 6-kilometer route with a time of 22 minutes, 30.6 seconds. That moves her past Stephanie Rouse on Grinnell's career list and into a tie with Sara Brady.
Schaefer will find out tomorrow if she is selected to run at the national championships via an at-large berth.
Next in line for Grinnell was Ginger Mullen '25, who was 93rd in 24:20.3. Megan LeBlanc '23 and Mira Diamond-Berman '25 were 111th and 112th in 24:53.0 and 24:55.5, respectively. Mullen and Diamond-Berman each had season-best times.
Crys Kaczmarczyk '25 rounded out the team's scorers by placing 116th in 25:09.4. Also for Grinnell, Lily Keane '22 ran a season-best 25:34.2 to place 122nd.
Grinnell was 17th of 24 squads in the team standings with 454 points. Wartburg College won the meet with 34 points and Loras College had the individual champ in Kassie Rosenbaum, who ran 20:50.6.
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