UK Cross Country’s Katy Kunc Qualifies for NCAA Championships
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky cross country senior Katy Kunc was named to the NCAA Championships field for the second year in a row.
The Championships will take place next Saturday, Nov. 18, at the EP “Tom” Sawyer Park course in Louisville, Ky. The women’s race will begin at 10:45 a.m. ET, followed by the men’s race at 11:45 a.m.
Kunc finished ninth at the NCAA Southeast Regionals on Friday at Virginia’s Panorama Farms course. She ran a 6,000-meter time of 20:32.50, and earned All-Southeast Region honors for the third year in a row.
Her best 6k time of this season is 20:13.20, which she ran to earn a second consecutive Southeastern Conference bronze medal.
She placed 33rd in a 6k time of 20:20.30 at the 2016 NCAA Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana, a year ago.
Kunc finished with an all-important top-40 place, meeting the prerequisite to earn All-America honors. She went on to win the SEC title in the 3k steeplechase in outdoor track and field, and earn Second Team All-America honors in that event, placing 11th in her first NCAA final.
The Kentucky women’s team was 11th and the men’s team was ninth at NCAA Southeast Regionals.
In order to be eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals qualified in their respective NCAA regional competitions.
Thirty-one teams were selected to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams automatically qualified from each of the nine regions, for a total of 18 teams. Thirteen additional teams were selected at-large.
Thirty-eight individuals were selected to participate in each championship through an automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. All individual qualifiers finished in the top 25 in their regions.
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Coverage of the championships will be available starting at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time until the conclusion of the awards ceremony, Saturday, November 18, and can be accessed at www.FloTrack.com.
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