General 9/16/2022 7:00:00 PM

Cross Country Teams Compete at Bradley Intercollegiate Championships

Women Place Ninth, Men Place Sixth in Second Meet of the Season

The Chicago State men's and women's cross country teams competed at the Bradley Intercollegiate Championships Friday afternoon at Detweiller Park in Peoria, Illinois. The women's team completed a three-mile race and finished ninth out of nine teams while the men ran an 8k race and finished sixth out of nine teams. For the second time in as many races, Abigael Limo paced the women's team with a time of 21:41.9 while Allen Kipruto, running in his first race for Chicago State, had the top time for the men, crossing the line at 26:07.9.

Complete team and individual results listed below.

The next action for the men's and women's cross country teams will be Friday, September 30 at the Loyola Lakefront Cross Country Invitational in Chicago. The men will compete in an 8k race while the women will run a 6k.

Bradley Intercollegiate Championships

Detweiller Park

Peoria, IL

Women (3 miles)

1 DePaul-25

2 Bradley-46

3 Western Illinois-61

4 Missouri-St. Louis-124

5 McKendree-148

6 Eureka-177

7 Monmouth (IL)-184

8 Carl Sandburg College-209

9 Chicago State-235

Chicago State

Place (Score)

33 (31)-Abigael Limo, 21:41.9

56 (48)-Jayda Ireland, 26:30.0

57 (49)-Miahna Harden, 26:49.7

60 (52)-Kendra Chambers, 29:09.4

63 (55)-Sanaya Ross, 33:49.2

Men (8K)

1 Bradley-26

2 DePaul-37

3 Missouri-St. Louis-110

4 Western Illinois-116

5 Illinois College-168

6 Chicago State-171

7 Carl Sandburg College-175

8 McKendree-215

9 Monmouth (IL)-220

Chicago State

Place (Score)

24 (19)-Allan Kipruto, 25:07.9

34 (21)-Victor Curcuianu, 26:58.0

48 (36)-Alex Vandor, 28:05.6

49 (37)-Pablo Coviella, 28:10.8

74 (56)-Wesley Keith, 33:10.2

78 (57)-Maxwell Mitchell, 34:14.4

83 (61)-Kenny Spears, 35:25.0

About Chicago State

Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioningm to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.

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