In a season filled with highs Northwestern hasn’t reached in decades, the Wildcats may have pulled off their biggest feat yet. At the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor on Oct. 28, Northwestern finished fifth with 116 points. It marked NU’s best performance at this meet since 1986, when it tied for second place with Iowa.
Rachel McCardell (20:23) made her second straight All-Big Ten First Team with a seventh-place finish in the 6K race, becoming the second runner in Northwestern history to do so after Aubrey Roberts accomplished the feat in 2017 and 2018. Kalea Bartolotto (20:29) posted a personal best, which was good for an 11th-place finish and a Second Team nod, while Ari Marks (20:39) was just two spots and three seconds shy of that honor in 16th.