NEW ORLEANS —On the heels of winning his first individual men's title at the 2020 Pac-12 Cross Country Championship March 5, Colorado senior Eduardo Herrera has been named the USTFCCCA Athlete of the Week.
The Madera, Calif. native won the 8-kilometer race at Chambers Creek Park in University Place, Wash., in 22 minutes, 30.9 seconds, finishing a full 11 seconds in front of the runner-up, Stanford's Charles Hicks.
Herrera went to the front of the large pack at the beginning of the race. Around the 3k mark, he was leading the field with Hicks, but by the midway point, it was time to put some separation between the pack and him, so he made a move that helped him become Colorado's second straight individual Pac-12 Champion even though Hicks came with him.