The UTEP women’s cross-country team showed that it could compete with the best teams in the nation at the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Indiana on Saturday. Finishing fourth overall as a team with 227 points the Miners were only seven points behind the third-place Nebraska team.
Individually, the Miners placed three runners in the top 16 of the 6K race. Senior Winny Koech finished as the top Miner in fourth place with a time of 20:50, which was 18 seconds behind the winner Aoibhe Richardson of the University of San Francisco. Koech was only a mere three seconds behind the second and third place runners.