Oklahoma City – Abigail Stucker of John Brown has been named this week’s NAIA National Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week for her efforts this past weekend. A national panel of institutional and conference sports information directors voted for the award.
 
This is the first time that a Women’s Cross-Country runner from John Brown has won the national weekly award.
 
Stucker, a sophomore from Ft. Worth, Texas, becomes the first SAC women’s cross-country athlete to win the national weekly award since Lydia Mato of Oklahoma City claimed the honor on October 24, 2018.
 

• Took part in the Queen City After Dark Invite
• Placed fifth in the event out of 138 runners from NCAA Division II and NAIA.
• Had a time of 17:44 over the 5k course as she set a new program 5k mark by two seconds.
• Helped the Golden Eagles to a fourth-place finish, which is the best team result from the NAIA teams that competed

John Brown will compete next on Saturday, October 3, at the Chile Pepper Festival at Agri Park in Fayetteville, Ark.