POCATELLO, Idaho – Idaho State cross country wrapped up the 2021 season this morning in Provo, Utah at the NCAA Mountain Region Championships.
"I think overall we ran what we were ranked," remarked head coach Nate Houle. "We ended up as a team coming though. Individuals stepped up and filled spaces pretty well and the whole team acted like they were supposed to. Running as a team and covering, stepping up when they needed to."
The women started the day with their championship 6k race. Madi Kenyon crossed the finish line first for the Bengals running the course in 22:15.2. Katie Weedn followed in just behind in 22:23.3.
Cassandra Vasquez and Laura Alicke came in third and fourth for the Bengals.
Molly Olsen, in her first race of the season scored the fifth point for the Bengals, running the 6K course in 23:51.7
"I feel like we had a lot of individuals step up to the plate and play their roles how we needed to," continued Houle. "We had a team full of individuals that came together and ran together for the team. The women's front four is really coming together and that helped us. There were some remarkable efforts by individual people that came together to make the team better."
The men's race started up next.
Zac Montoya was the first Bengal to cross the finish line. He finished with a new 10K personal best time of 31:32.9 to finish 52nd.
D'artangnan Kilgore followed next with a personal best 32:41.3.
Eric Christen and Sam Jones came in third and fourth for the Bengals and Brandon Walker rounded out the top-five for the Orange and Black.
The Bengals have a couple weeks off to rest and train before the indoor track and field season begins.
