Hillsdale's Liz Wamsley has had an impressive fall for the Chargers women's cross country team.
The G-MAC and Midwest Regional Champion added another impressive honor on Saturday in Joplin, Missouri, recording the highest finish by a Hillsdale women's cross country runner at the NCAA DII Championships since 2017 to earn her second cross country All-American honor and the fourth All-American finish of her career at Hillsdale.
Wamsley placed 11th overall in a time of 20:11.9 in the NCAA DII Championships, the best finish by a Charger since Hannah McIntyre took fourth in the 2017 national championship meet. It's also a big improvement on an already-impressive finish by the junior from St. Louis in 2022, when Wamsley placed 22nd to become an All-American for the first time in her career.
The junior was nearly a minute faster this year and hung with the top chase pack behind eventual winner Lindsay Cunningham of Winona State for most of the race. Wamsley had an excellent final kilometer, moving up two spos from 13th to 11th on the home stretch by passing Leah Taylor of Western Colorado and Anastasia Tucker of Grand Valley State in a strong finish.
Wamsley was an All-American in three seasons in 2022-23, earning the honor in cross country in the fall, in the 5,000m run in indoor track and field, and the 10,000m run in outdoor track and field. She'll look to repeat the feat this season with one of the three legs already in the books, and improve on a seventh place finish indoors and an eighth place finish outdoors in the same way she built on her performance in cross country this season.
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