{"id":1773,"date":"2018-11-05T18:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2018-11-12T18:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:29:57","slug":"cross-country-competes-at-miaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2018\/11\/05\/cross-country-competes-at-miaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Competes at MIAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western cross country raced at the MIAA Championships in Emporia on Saturday. The women\u2019s team placed seventh in the 6K with an average time of 24:02. The men finished 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0with an average time of 27:48 in the 8K race.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s team was led by Megan Gillen. Gillen had a career day, finishing with a career-best time of 23:08 in the 6K. Gillen finished 17<sup>th<\/sup>, which is 22 spots improved from her finish at the MIAA Championships last season.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Cox was the next Griffon to cross the finish. Cox placed 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0with a time of 23:27. Allison Goos also placed in the top-half of the field, coming in at 41<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0with a time of 23:54.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Western Men\u2019s Cross Country rounded out the field in 11<sup>th<\/sup>. Riley Gorham led the team with a 34<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0place finish. Gorham earned his second-best time of the season in the 8K race at 27:01.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Andrew Wright finished in the top-50 at 27:29. Brandon Colner was not far behind and crossed the finish line at 27:47.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Western Cross Country will have two weeks off before both teams head to the NCAA Central Region Championships on Nov. 3 in Joplin, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western cross country raced at the MIAA Championships in Emporia on Saturday. The women\u2019s team placed seventh in the 6K with an average time of 24:02. The men finished 11th\u00a0with an average time of 27:48 in the 8K race. The women\u2019s team was led by Megan Gillen. Gillen had a career day, finishing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}