The Colorado cross country team traveled to Riverside, California, on Friday, Oct. 28, to compete in the 2022 Pac-12 Cross Country Championships. The women’s team defended their Pac-12 title and went back-to-back this year, defeating Utah in a tiebreaker that came down to the final 200 meters of the race.
Graduate student Bailey Hertenstein and junior Emily Covert remained neck in neck the entirety of the course, consistently switching leads. Near the 4k mark, Covert took the lead, with Oregon trailing close behind and Hertenstein in third. With 400 meters left in the race, Hertenstein passed senior Emily Venters from Utah to win the individual title.