The Lone Star Conference recognized twenty student-athletes and
two head coaches as league officials announced the annual cross
country postseason honors.
The announcement comes following
the annual LSC Cross Country Championships, NCAA South Central
Regional and NCAA Championships meet.
At the LSC meet, Abilene
Christian prevailed in the men's race for the 18th
straight year, while Midwestern State captured the women's title
for the first time in school history.
All-conference honors are given
to those runners who finish among the top 10 individually at the
conference meet, while additional awards are presented for Coach of
the Year, Runner of the Year and Freshman of the Year in both the
men's and women's divisions.
Cross country standouts Daniel
Maina and Winrose Karunda were honored as 2008 LSC Cross Country
Runners of the Year after winning the men's and women's conference
individual titles.
ACU's Sam Burroughs and MSU's
Koby Styles earned men's and women's Coach of the Year acclaim
after guiding their respective teams to conference titles.
Freshman of the Year honors went to ACU's Charles White and MSU's
Lindsey Pate.
The runner and coaching honors
were selected by a vote of all the LSC head coaches, while the
freshman awards went to the top freshman finishers at the league
championships.
The Wildcats Maina won the men's
individual title to headline the all-conference list. He was
joined by teammates Cleophas Tanui, Julius Nyango, Serge Gasore and
White on the All-LSC list.
Texas A&M Commerce's men, who
finished third, were led by All-LSC performers Tyler Tyndell, Cody
Hughes and Robert Reed. Jared McNeil paced Tarleton State to
a second-place finish to earn All-LSC honors, while East Central's
John Sutrick also received All-LSC recognition.
On the women's side, ACU's
Karunda and Loice Cheboi finished first and second, respectively,
to lead the All-LSC honorees. MSU's Katie Stepp, Pate and
Kayla Hendrix paced the Mustangs to the team title as top 10
finishers.
Also earning All-LSC acclaim were
West Texas A&M's Jeniffer Cherono, Southwestern Oklahoma's
Stefanie Jones, Angelo State's Paige Massingill along with Central
Oklahoma's Alina Istrate and Evelyn Berko.
2008 LSC CROSS COUNTRY ALL-CONFERENCE
AWARDS
MEN'S ALL-CONFERENCE PERFORMERS
Place
Runner
Year
Team
Hometown
1 Daniel
Maina
JR Abilene
Christian
Nanyuki, Kenya
2 Cleophas
Tanui JR
Abilene
Christian
Kobujol, Kenya
3
Julius Nyango
SR Abilene
Christian
Aldai, Kenya
4 Tyler
Tyndell
JR Texas
A&M-Commerce Paris, Texas
5 Serge
Gasore
SR Abilene
Christian
Kigali, Rwanda
6 Charles
White
FR Abilene
Christian
Kingwood, Texas
7 Cody Hughes
FR Texas
A&M-Commerce Anna, Texas
8 Robert Reed
JR Texas
A&M-Commerce Sachse, Texas
9 Jared
McNeil
SO Tarleton
State
Saginaw, Texas
10 John
Sutrick
SR East
Central
Sapulpa, Okla.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Men's Team Champion: Abilene
Christian
Men's Runner of the Year: Daniel
Maina, Abilene Christian
Men's Freshman of the Year:
Charles White, Abilene Christian
Men's Coach of the Year: Sam
Burroughs, Abilene Christian
WOMEN'S ALL-CONFERENCE
PERFORMERS
Place
Runner
Year
Team
Hometown
1
Winrose Karunda
SO
Abilene
Christian
Nyeri, Kenya
2 Loice
Cheboi
SR Abilene
Christian
Eldoret, Kenya
3 Jeniffer
Cherono
JR West
Texas
A&M
Iten, Kenya
4 Katie Stepp
JR
Midwestern
State
Washington C.H., Ohio
5 Stefanie
Jones
JR
Southwestern Oklahoma Fort Smith,
Ark.
6 Alina
Istrate
SO Central
Oklahoma
Galati, Romania
7 Lindsey
Pate
FR Midwestern
State
Fort Worth, Texas
8 Evelyn
Berko
JR Central
Oklahoma
Moore, Okla.
9
Paige Massingill
JR Angelo
State
Comanche, Texas
10 Kayla
Hendrix
FR
Midwestern
State
Lubbock, Texas
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Women's Team Champion:
Midwestern State
Women's Runner of the Year:
Winrose Karunda, Abilene Christian
Women's Freshman of the Year:
Lindsey Pate, Midwestern State
Women's Coach of the Year: Koby
Styles, Midwestern State