Cross Country finishes fourth at Colorado

Amanda Vorthmann continued a strong senior season, finishing as UNO’s top runner and the Mavs took home fourth place at the 27^th annual Rocky Mountain Shootout at Colorado.  The cross country team has competed three times this year and Vorthmann has been UNO’s top runner all three times.

As a team, the Mavs finished with 93 points.  Colorado, running at its home course, won with 19 points.

Vorthmann came in 13^th overall with a time of 22:03.  Her time was almost two minutes faster than her mark in the same event last year.

Sophomore Katarina Zarudnaya finished as UNO’s second-best runner, coming in at a time of 23:27, 31^st overall.  Senior Nicole Behm was just two seconds behind Zarudnaya.

Behm’s time was more than 2:30 off her finish from last season.  Sophomore MiKayla Peck came in at 23:31, good enough for 34^th, and Ashley Kildow was 46^th with a time of 23:58.

Kildow was another Mav who made a big improvement over last year’s time.  The sophomore was faster by more than three minutes over the time she posted in 2011.

Freshman Carolyn Newhouse was 59^th, junior Kayla Fenske was 72^nd and freshmen Kourtney Osentoski was 83^rd and Avery Schmidt was 98^th.

Newhouse had a time of 24:33, Fenske came in at 24:58, Osentoski posted a 25:26 mark and Schmidt finished with a time of 26:08.  Colorado’s Carrie Verdon won the race in a time of 21:03.