CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Guilford College women's cross country team sent a tandem of representatives to the NCAA South Regional Championship, placing both within the top-115, but not factoring into the team scoring at the race hosted by University of Lynchburg at Panorama Farms on Saturday morning.

The women's race saw 29 total teams send representative to comprise of the 167 runner field, with 22 teams scoring. Ester Zar from Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) rival, Batten University finished as the regional champion with a 21:09.6, crossing the finish line just-under 40 seconds before another runner. Top-seeded Emory University took home the regional title though, putting all-five scorers in the top-20 to win by a landslide with a team score of 59. Catholic University followed with 114 before Christopher Newport University tallied 123. Southern Virginia University took fourth before the top ODAC squad, Washington & Lee University in fifth.

Kateria Peters (Wilmington, N.C.) and Piper Campbell (Wilmington, N.C.) were the pair of Quakers who competed, and they both finished with PRs on the 6K course. Slicing almost 45 seconds off her prior best in the distance a couple weeks ago at the ODAC Championships, Peters ran a 25:25.2 to finish 83^rd. Her placing is the third-best in program history by a runner in the regional title race, trailing just Sommer Fanney '18 who placed higher in both 2015 and 2017. Her time, meanwhile, slots in as the seventh-best in program history at the competition. Running at the regional championship for the first time in her career, Campbell was also strong, slicing four seconds off her prior PR in a 6K to claim 115^th with a 27:04.3.

The Quakers now turn their focus to indoor track, as this concludes their 2026 season.

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