Sun Belt champions!

The women’s cross country team became Georgia State’s first Sun Belt Conference champion on Saturday afternoon as they won the Sun Belt meet in Bowling Green, KY.

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Senior Katharine Showalter led the team in the com-
petition, earning the Runner of the Year award

The Panthers were led by Sun Belt Runner of the Year Katharine Showalter who traversed the 5K course in a blazing 17:41.1.

Showalter and Hanna Stefanoff were both named to the first team All-Sun Belt following their performances at the con- ference meet. Niamh Kearney and Jennifer Rubel were both named to the third team All-Sun Belt after finishing in the top 15 at the meet.

Georgia State’s team score of 52 best- ed runner up Arkansas State (58) and hosts Western Kentucky (83) who were the defending conference champions.

Valentin Poncelet of the men’s team earned a spot on the first team All-Sun Belt with an 8K time of 25:23.7 which was good enough for fifth place.

The men’s team finished seventh out of 12 teams in the meet.

Tyler Tomy and Carlos Galindo fin- ished 25th and 29th respectively.

The men and women travel to Tallahassee, Fl. on Nov. 9 to compete in the NCAA South Regional meet.