Munoz completes season at NCAA Championship
Nov 19, 2007 | Track and Field
November 19, 2007
Texas A&M's cross country season came to completion with Christina Munoz running in the NCAA Championship field on Monday at the LaVern Gibson Championship course. The Aggie sophomore covered the 6,000-meter course in 22 minutes, 14.1 seconds to place 183rd out of 253 finishers.
Munoz was the third consecutive Texas A&M female to advance to the NCAA Championship field. Sarah Balfour placed 125th (21:19.4) as a freshman in 2005 while Snow finished 75th (21:53.5) in her freshman season last year.
Texas Tech's Sally Kipyego claimed a second straight NCAA cross country title by winning the race in 19:30.9 as another Big 12 runner, Colorado's Jenny Barringer, repeated her runner-up finish from 2006 with a clocking of 19:47.8.
The women's team title was captured by Stanford for a third consecutive year. The Cardinal, who have won four of the last five NCAA titles, scored 145 points to finish ahead of Oregon (177), Florida State (236), Arizona State (251) and Michigan State (321).
The top two teams from the South Central Regional were Arkansas (406) in 13th place while Rice (413) finished 16th. Baylor was the top Big 12 team as they scored 427 points for 17th, one spot ahead of Texas Tech (433) in 18th place. Big 12 champion Colorado (479) finished 23rd.
