Lohrenz Earns All-America Recognition At NCAA Championship

UW-Oshkosh senior Hannah Lohrenz earned All-America honors with her 31st-place finish at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Women's Cross Country Championship Saturday (Nov. 20) at E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky.

Lohrenz, one of two Titans competing at the national meet, concluded the 6,000-meter race of 293 participants with a time of 21:41.6. Lohrenz was making her second Division III Championship appearance after finishing 185th at the event in 2019.

Lohrenz earned UW-Oshkosh's 47th Division III All-America cross country award by finishing in the top 40 of Saturday's race. She previously earned Division III indoor track & field All-America honors for the mile run in 2020.

Sophomore Alexandria Demco also represented UW-Oshkosh at Saturday's championship. She ended her first appearance at nationals with a 191st-place time of 23:02.6.

Kassie Parker of Loras College (Iowa) recorded a time of 20:11.1 to easily run away with the national individual title. Parker won the race by nearly 18 seconds over the second-place time of 20:28.6 owned by Ari Marks of Wellesley College (Mass.).

Danielle Page of Tufts University (Mass.) finished third in the race with a time of 20:30.1 while Evie Bultemeyer of Trine University (Ind.) placed fourth in 20:43.7 and Fiona Smith of College of Saint Benedict (Minn.) fifth in 20:58.4.

Defending national champion Johns Hopkins University (Md.) scored 130 points to capture its seventh Division III cross country title in program history. The Blue Jays were followed in the team standings by second-place Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges (Calif.) with 132 points, third-place State University of New York at Geneseo with 168, fourth-place Wartburg College (Iowa) with 179 and fifth-place Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) with 200.

UW-Oshkosh was not among the 32 squads participating in the team competition.

Lohrenz, the 2021 Wisconsin Intercollagiate Athletic Conference champion, and Demco earned two of 70 at-large berths into the Division III Championship after their outstanding performance at last Saturday's (Nov. 13) North Regional at the Whitetail Golf Course in Colfax, Wis.

The 2020 Division III Championship, scheduled for Terre Haute, Ind., was not held due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country

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