No. 1 Women’s Cross Country Wins Wisconsin Invite

Published by New Mexico SID on October 16, 2015

MADISON, Wis. — If there was any doubt that the Lobo women deserved their No. 1 ranking, they answered them in record fashion Friday morning.

The New Mexico women's cross country team dominated the seventh-annual Wisconsin adidas Invitational, placing five runners in the top 10 en route to setting a meet record with a 32-point team score.

The top-ranked Lobos handily won their second meet this season, cruising by a championship-caliber field that featured 20 nationally ranked teams and 246 runners. New Mexico also obliterated the previous meet record of 78 points that was set by Duke in 2009.

"They ran really well," New Mexico head coach Joe Franklin said. "They ran as a team. They were supportive of each other. They did a great job. It was just a very, very, very good performance."

The Lobo men also took 23rd as a team, as both the men and the women wore their special turquoise uniforms on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course in Madison.