Women's Cross Country | 2/25/2021 2:04:00 PM

(LIVE MEET SCORING)

The Dixie State men's and women's cross country teams will travel to Seattle to compete in the 2021 Western Athletic Conference Championships, which will be run this Saturday at the Jefferson Park Golf Course.

The championship meet will commence with the women's 6-kilometer race at 10 a.m. (PT), followed by the men's 8K race at 11 a.m. (PT).

DSU AT CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Saturday's event will mark DSU's first NCAA Division-I conference championship meet and first as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.

Both teams have competed in 12 previous conference meets, including 10 Pacific West Conference races and two RMAC meets. DSU's women have placed as high as fourth place on three different occasions, with all three instances coming in PacWest competition (2008/2012/2017).

Meanwhile the men posted a program-best fifth place showing in 2008 (PacWest), and has recorded six other sixth-place showings, including a sixth-place finish (out of 16 teams) last season at the RMAC championships.

LAST TIME OUT: The men's team posted their best finish of the season finishing first as a team. The women also had a solid race finishing in fourth. 

Leading the women was, junior Madison Flippence who clocked the seventh-fastest time in program history with a time of 21:45 and placing 12^th-overall. Four more Trailblazer finished in the top-40, including freshman Kirstin Williams in 30^th (24:05.8), freshman Jaylee Sorenson in 32^nd (24:13.4), freshman Kali Richardson in 34^th (24:18.1) and sophomore Cassidy Elmont (24:44.9).

The Trailblazer men placed all five scoring runners in the top-15 overall in their 8-kilometer race, led by junior Kevin Kirk, who placed fifth-overall with a personal-best time of 25:30.2. Kirk's time is also the fourth fastest 8K in the program's four-year era. Not far behind of Kirk, included seniors Benjamin Fish (25:48.4) and Brian Schulz (25:53.8) in 10^th and 11^th, respectively, followed by sophomore Kallen Webster (26:04.6) in 14^th and sophomore Sam Fish (26:39.3) who closed out DSU's scoring in 15^th place.