Stymiest Competes At NCAA Championship

UW-Oshkosh's Nate Stymiest (So. • Oconto Falls) ran to a 209th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Men's Cross Country Championship held Saturday (Nov. 21) at the Highland Park Golf Course in Highland Hills, Ohio.

Stymiest, who was UW-Oshkosh's lone representative at the national meet, completed the 8,000-meter course in a time of 27:40. He finished 59th at last year's championship held in Hanover, Ind.

Stymiest earned his trip to the Buckeye State after placing 11th at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional held Nov. 14 at the Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne.

Ricky Flynn of Lynchburg College (Va.) won this year's national race with a time of 25:09, while Michael Spain of North Central College (Ill.) finished second in 25:32, Edgar Kosgey of Williams College (Mass.) third in 25:34, Dan Ramsey of St. Lawrence University (N.Y.) fourth in 25:35 and Jason Garvens of UW-Platteville fifth in 25:36. A total of 276 runners crossed the finish line.

North Central College scored 50 points to capture its 13th NCAA Division III title, but its first in 10 years. Williams College finished second in the team standings with 181 points, while Allegheny College (Pa.) placed third with 195, New York University fourth with 224 and defending champion State University of New York-Cortland fifth with 232. North Central College's margin of victory (131 points) was the largest in the 37-year history of the NCAA Division III Championship.

UW-Oshkosh has been represented at the NCAA Division III Championship 26 times. The Titans sent full squads to the meet 19 times, with first-place finishes coming in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 2002.