{"id":5322,"date":"2019-09-10T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:05:49","slug":"cross-country-takes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2019\/09\/10\/cross-country-takes-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Country Takes Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Western cross country team competed in their first race of the season at the Bearcat Open on Friday, Sept. 6. Both the men and women&#8217;s teams finished second overall and each had an individual who posted a top-five finish.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Ian Kibet<dfn><\/dfn> finished fifth in the men&#8217;s 7K with a time of 23:24.5. Kibet was one of two Griffons with a top-10 finish, with Andrew Wright<dfn><\/dfn> posting a time of 23:51.7, taking eighth for the day. Eight members of the men&#8217;s team placed within the top 25 in the Open. The men finished with an average time of 24:01.7.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Gillen took third in the women&#8217;s 5K, posting a time of 19:31.3. She was one of three Griffons who finished in the top-10. Claire Reedy<dfn><\/dfn> finished eighth with a time of 20:27.3, and Mackenzie Miller placed behind Reedy with a time of 20:53.4. The women&#8217;s team finished with an average time of 20:39.8.<\/p>\n<p>The Griffons\u00a0 will head to Joplin next to compete in the Missouri Southern Stampede on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Western cross country team competed in their first race of the season at the Bearcat Open on Friday, Sept. 6. Both the men and women&#8217;s teams finished second overall and each had an individual who posted a top-five finish. Freshman Ian Kibet finished fifth in the men&#8217;s 7K with a time of 23:24.5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5323,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions\/5323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}