Wingate Pair Earns Final SAC Cross Country Runner of the Week Awards
Wingate student-athletes Binyam Ateka Belachew and Melanie Wollenberg each captured individual titles during the final week of the SAC cross country regular season, and on Tuesday were named the league’s Runners of the Week.
ROCK HILL, S.C. – Wingate student-athletes Binyam Ateka Belachew and Melanie Wollenberg each captured individual titles during the final week of the SAC cross country regular season, and on Tuesday were named the league's Runners of the Week.
Belachew won Thursday's Wingate Pre-SAC Invitational with a 5K time of 16:12, marking his second individual championship of the 2012 season. He also won the Carl Broughton Invitational in September.
Behind Belachew, the Wingate men finished first as a team at the event.
Wollenberg won the women's individual title at the Pre-SAC Invitational, setting a personal record with a 5K time of 19:50. It was the first individual win of the senior's career.
Wingate also won the women's team title at the event, edging UNC Pembroke by three points.
Runners from all 10 SAC member institutions will compete at this weekend's 2012 Food Lion SAC Cross Country Championship. Both the men's and women's races will take place on Saturday morning in Greeneville, Tenn.