Hammond, Griewisch Earn Runner of the Week Honors

Hammond, Griewisch Earn Runner of the Week Honors
September 27, 2011
ROCK HILL, S.C. - SAC cross country student-athletes Steve Hammond from Wingate and Kate Griewisch from Lenoir-Rhyne have been selected as the league's Runners of the Week, it was announced on Tuesday.






Hammond paced his field Saturday, capturing the Bulldog Stampede 8K event with a time of 26:09. The 2010 SAC Freshman of the Year was nine seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. Thanks to the efforts of Hammond and his teammates, Wingate won the event's team title with 28 points.

This is Hammond's second-straight Runner of the Week selection.

Meanwhile, Griewisch was the top NCAA Division II runner at the Will Wilson Citadel Invitational this past Saturday morning at James Island County Park in Charleston, S.C. Griewisch ran the 5K course in 18:25 and finished second overall out of 92 runners.

Griewisch, a two-time All-American (2009 and 2010), also led Lenoir-Rhyne to a first-place finish out of six schools in the Division II race.

This is her second Runner of the Week win in 2011, and 10th in her career.


SAC Runners of the Week

Men
Steve Hammond | Wingate
So. | Warsaw, Ohio

Women
Kate Griewisch, Lenoir-Rhyne
Sr. | Banner Elk, N.C.