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Foot and ankle pain no longer means a long drive. Vandalia Health Foot & Ankle now treats patients in four central West Virginia towns — Buckhannon, Cowen, Elkins and Philippi — part of the network long known as Davis Health System. Read more →
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BRIDGEPORT — The Mountain East Conference announced Monday the winners of this week’s Cross Country Runner of the Week awards. The weekly awards are presented by The Health Plan.
West Virginia Wesleyan’s Kent Niland and Glenville State’s Natalie Barr are this week’s MEC Cross Country honorees.
Niland, a junior from Keyser, West Virginia, finished seventh out of 100 runners at the Carnegie Mellon Invite. He had the second-best time of any MEC runner at the event, shaving 1:40 from his time on the same course a year ago. His time was the second-fastest 8K time in school history.
Barr, a junior from Canvas, West Virginia, captured weekly Cross Country honors for the second consecutive week. She finished first in the Carnegie Mellon Invite, finishing in front of more than 40 fellow MEC runeners at the event. Barr’s time of 17:06.70 broke her own school record in the 5K, giving her the individual win in a field of 183 runners.
2025 MEC MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK
9/8: Harry Witt, Charleston
9/15: Jordan Thomas, Davis & Elkins
9/22: Donovan Tanouye, Fairmont State
9/29: Hugo Hewitt, Charleston
10/6: Jordan Thomas, Davis & Elkins
10/13: Kent Niland, W.Va. Wesleyan
2025 MEC WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK
9/8: Cassondra O’Connor, Point Park
9/15: Cassondra O’Connor, Point Park & Emily Wishart, Frostburg State
9/22: Megan Mitchell, Fairmont State
9/29: Lauren Twyman, Davis & Elkins
10/6: Natalie Barr, Glenville State
10/13: Natalie Barr, Glenville State
