FOREST, Va. --- We are just 11 days away from the first championship of the fall season as ODAC cross country runners competed at a bevy of locations during week seven. The Roanoke Invitational featured a large portion of the conference, while others competed at a pair of inter-regional events hosted by Oberlin College (Ohio) and Rowan University (N.J.), the Aubrey Shenk Invitational at Gettysburg College, and the VertCross hosted by High Point University.
League runners placed near the top in several races in each of those outings. Earning this week's ODAC Runner of the Week laurels are a pair of seniors in Lynchburg's Sam Llaneza and Washington and Lee's Carolyn Todd. Llaneza posted his second-fastest race of the season at the Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle, while Todd picked up her second weekly award following a strong finish at the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble.
Below are entries for both winners from today's cross country release. Most weeks this fall, the following schedule will be used for awards reporting:
- Sundays: football (thru 11/13/22)
- Mondays: field hockey, soccer, swimming, volleyball, wrestling (when it begins)
- Tuesdays: cross country
- Wednesday: golf
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MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK
Sam Llaneza | Lynchburg | Sr.
Llaneza, a senior from Bristow, Va., picks up his first ODAC weekly award of the season after helping nationally 21st-ranked Lynchburg to third place in a 36-team field in the championship race at the Inter-Regional Border Battle hosted by Rowan University in Logan Township, N.J. Llaneza placed fifth overall among 309 competitors at 25:03.7, his second-fastest eight-kilometer time of the season (24:58.5). He used a pace of 5:02.5 per mile to rank as the top ODAC competitor in the event by 5.2 seconds over Washington and Lee's Charles Scharf. Lynchburg posted 79 points, just two points shy of second place in the team table.
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WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK
Carolyn Todd | Washington and Lee | Sr.
Todd, a senior from Cumberland Foreside, Maine, collects her second ODAC weekly award of the year after helping Washington and Lee to fifth place among 32 squads at the Inter-Regional Rumble hosted by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Todd finished sixth overall among 282 competitors with a six-kilometer time of 22:14.6, her fastest mark of the season at that distance and the third-quickest time in the ODAC. Todd used a pace of 5:57.8 per mile to help the Generals to 187 points in the team table, just eight points off fourth place Trine University and 10 marks shy of third place Centre College.
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