Results

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Saturday's NCAA Division III Midwest Region Championships cross country race was twice as nice for Grinnell College's Emma Schaefer '23.
 
Schaefer not only earned All-Region honors for the first time in her career, but moved up from eighth to sixth on Grinnell's all-time leader board with a personal-best clocking.
 
Schaefer placed 22^nd of 163 runners on the Saukie Golf Course 6-kilometer route with a time of 22 minutes, 30.6 seconds. That moves her past Stephanie Rouse on Grinnell's career list and into a tie with Sara Brady.
 
Schaefer will find out tomorrow if she is selected to run at the national championships via an at-large berth.
 
Next in line for Grinnell was Ginger Mullen '25, who was 93^rd in 24:20.3. Megan LeBlanc '23 and Mira Diamond-Berman '25 were 111^th and 112^th in 24:53.0 and 24:55.5, respectively. Mullen and Diamond-Berman each had season-best times.
 
Crys Kaczmarczyk '25 rounded out the team's scorers by placing 116^th in 25:09.4. Also for Grinnell, Lily Keane '22 ran a season-best 25:34.2 to place 122^nd.
 
Grinnell was 17^th of 24 squads in the team standings with 454 points. Wartburg College won the meet with 34 points and Loras College had the individual champ in Kassie Rosenbaum, who ran 20:50.6.