Men's Cross Country | 9/30/2023 2:53:00 PM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Led by Caitlin Cornell and Marissa Bruno, who finished 14^th and 15^th, respectively, the MSU Denver women's cross country team placed third at the four-team Ted Castaneda Classic on Saturday.
 
Cornell ran six kilometers in 23 minutes, 33.05 seconds, just ahead of Bruno's time of 23:43.42.
 
"Caitlin Cornell had a great day," said Amana Rego, MSU Denver's associate head coach. "She's been putting in very good training and it was exciting to see it play out in a race. And I was really impressed with Marissa Bruno. I could see this coming from workouts, but to actually execute iut in a race is impressive. She improved by over 90 seconds from our home meet. She's not afraid to take risks and run gutsy, which I love.

MSU Denver had just three competitors for the men's race and didn't count in the team standings. Shota Yabuuchi led the way in 32^nd place, running 8K in 28:24.69.
 
Behind Cornell and Bruno, rounding out the scoring the for the MSU Denver women were: Audrynn Street in 28^th place (25:02.36), Lexi McAfee, 38^th place (26:10.86) and Heidi Yagen, 41^st place (26:23.00).
 
"We had several other PRs today which shows the work is paying off," Rego said.