Women's Runner of the Week: Grace Steinmetz, Bellevue (Neb.)
Steinmetz, a freshman from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was named as the Women’s Runner of the Week for the second straight edition.
She was first overall in the field of 275 runners in the Blazing Tiger NAIA Classic for Bellevue (Neb.). She split 17 minutes, 20 seconds at 5K on her way to a meet record of 20 minutes, 48.1 seconds in the 6K race.
The former meet record, held by Ellyse Tingelstad of the College of Idaho, was 20 minutes, 52 seconds. Steinmetz missed her own school record of 20 minutes, 40 seconds, set two weeks ago on a much faster course.
This is Steinmetz’s third career Erck Hotels/Frontier Women’s Cross Country weekly honor.