SALEM, Va. - On Saturday morning, the Guilford College men's and women's cross country teams battled in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC Championships), at neutral site Green Hill Park. While the women's team did not qualify for a team score, the men's team secured an overall 11th-place finish.
Kendal Lowe (Winston-Salem, N.C.) continued to out-do himself with a new PR of 31:57.6, 94.2 seconds faster than his previous 8k run at the Elon Phoenix XC Invitational and was the top Quaker finisher, placing 93rd overall.
The second Quaker to finish was
Alex Palomares with a time of 33:23.3, a new PR that was 114.5 seconds faster than his last 8k. Next man standing for Guilford was
Jeremy Harway (Apex, N.C.) who finished with 34:58.0 while
Trent Torian (Durham, N.C.) placed right behind him with a time of 35:42.2. Teammates
Jerome Moore (Mount Olive, N.C.) and
JC Yañez (Thomasville, N.C.) were the final Quakers to cross the finish line for the men with times of 39:07.6 and 40:42.1 respectively. Moore had a PR in the ODAC Championships with it being 72.5 seconds faster.
As for the Women's 6k,
Piper Campbell (Wilmington, N.C.) placed 78th overall with a time of 27:08.2, 65.9 seconds faster than the Elon Phoenix XC Invitational. The second Quaker finisher was
Natalie Viera (Winston-Salem, N.C.) placing 87th and earning a PR with a time of 29:14.1.
Bess Parnell (Cario, Egypt) was the final Guilford finisher for the women as she had a time of 31:46.3.
For Guilford's final contest for the 2024 season, the Men and Women will compete in the NCAA South/Southeast Regional Championship in Jackson, Miss. hosted at Millsaps College on Saturday November 16th. Time is TBD.
