Women’s Cross Country Back in USTFCCCA Top 30

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky women’s cross country team has been ranked in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Top 30 at No. 30 in the seventh poll released for the 2021 season. This is the second time Kentucky has been ranked in the top 30 this season, a first for the program in at least 25 years. 
 

The women earned this ranking through a solid team performance in the 6K race at SEC Championships in Columbia, Missouri, where they finished fourth with 93 points and only two points behind third-place Alabama. 
 

All the women’s team’s top five runners finished in the top 33, including Tori Herman, who led the pack with a fifth-place finish (20:13.2), Perri Bockrath (13th), Jenna Gearing (15th), Kaitlyn Lacy (27th) and Rachel Boice (33rd). 
 

The last time women’s cross country was ranked was October 5 when the team was No. 27 following a strong showing at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational where they beat five ranked teams and placed eighth overall. Before that, the women were last ranked when they finished 31st in the final 2008 USTFCCCA ranking. 
 

The top 31 Division I teams after NCAA Regionals will be sent to the 2021 NCAA Championships on Saturday, November 20 in Tallahassee, Florida. Those top 31 teams will be selected on Saturday, November 13. 
 

Next up for Kentucky cross country is the NCAA Southeast Regional Meet, hosted by Kentucky at Tom Sawyer Park in Anchorage, Kentucky on Friday, November 12. 

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