Wilgenbusch Grabs First Place in the Inaugural UT-Dallas Cross Country Invitational

RICHARDSON, Texas - The University of Dallas women's cross country team took fourth place at the inaugural UT Dallas Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. Anna Wilgenbusch (St. Paul, Minn.) won the meet with a career-best time of 18:55 in the 5k race. Emma Kate Callahan (Overland Park, Kan.) notched the second-best time for Dallas to secure the 12^th position and set a new Personal Record (PR) in the 5k. (21:40).

Sabrina Lucio (Chino, Calif.) took the third spot for UD finishing in 24^th place (22:42). Elizabeth Regnerus (Round Rock, Texas) and Isabella Childs (Saint Mary's Kan.) also picked up PR's finishing at the 23:32 and 24:50 marks, respectively.

Hardin-Simmons University took the win with 36 points. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor finished second (70), while UT-Dallas grabbed third.

Wilgenbusch is the first women's runner to win an individual event since Clare Meyers who won the University of Dallas Invitational in 2013. 

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Dallas will prepare for the Muthama-Rogers XC Invite (5k) in hosted by Bethel College in Newton, Kansas next Saturday.