Three Red Raiders earn All-Region honors Friday

LUBBOCK, Texas – A trio of Red Raiders earned All-Region honors as the Texas Tech cross country team wrapped up the NCAA Mountain Region race Friday morning at the LCU Cross Country Course. To receive All-Region honors, runners must finish inside the top-25.

The women’s team finished 12^th (324 points) as the men placed 14^th (341 points).

For the women, Juliet Cherubet and Anastasia Chepkorir were consistently at the front of the pack throughout the race. Starting with the one-mile mark, Cherubet clocked in at 5:12.40, good for third, while Chepkorir clocked in at 5:12.90 for sixth.

From there, each Red Raider stayed inside the top-10 at the two-mile mark and 4.45k mark with Cherubet ultimately finishing third overall with a time of 19:26.50 and Chepkorir crossing the end line at 19:49.60 for a 13^th-place outing.

Taylor Limbaugh (98^th, 22:03.00), Hannah Spears (104^th, 22:23.20) and Melanie Jacobs (106^th, 22:25.10) rounded out the top-5 scorers for Tech.

Meanwhile, for the men’s team, Gideon Kiplimo paced the Red Raiders coming in 11^th with a time of 29:18.20. Kiplimo reached as high as fourth (19:11.30) during the race – 4-mile mark.

Vincent Koech (56^th, 30:32.30), Isaac Hernandez (79^th, 31:14.00), Daniel Mendez (96^th, 31:45.60) and Samuel Ashley (102^nd, 31:56.40) capped off the scoring for Tech.

TTU will find out tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. officially on the number of individual runners that will be heading to the NCAA Championships.

Notables 

• In four 6k races this year, Cherubet has not finished outside the top-3.
• Isaac Hernandez finished his cross country season with a personal best 10k time.
• Mendez ran his first collegiate 10k race.

–TECH–

Release provided by Chris Duarte Texas Tech Athletics