VT’s Seufer receives all-American honors in XC
Virginia Tech runner Peter Seufer earned All-America honors by coming in 16th place at the NCAA Cross Country Championships held at Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon.
Seufer, a redshirt junior from Lynchburg, Virginia, ran the 10K course in a time of 29:36.88. Morgan McDonald of Wisconsin won the event with a time of 29:08.22.
In addition, Seufer was the top ACC performer at the NCAA Championships. Brent Demarest of UVA was the closest ACC competitor behind Seufer, coming in 31st.
Strong graduation numbers
Virginia Tech Athletics found itself at the forefront of academic successes once again, as the department recorded an overall Graduation Success Rate of 92 percent in a report released by the NCAA on Monday. The Hokies’ overall GSR of 92 percent ranked tied for first among all public universities in the Atlantic Coast Conference and fifth among all schools in the league. The 92 percent also was four percent higher than the national average and represented a two percent increase from Tech Athletics’ four-average of the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 classes released in last year’s NCAA report.
Six Virginia Tech sports programs had a perfect GSR of 100 percent – men’s golf, men’s tennis, women’s basketball, women’s soccer, women’s tennis and volleyball. In all, 15 sport programs finished at 85 percent or higher, and 11 of 17 sport programs came in above the national average of 88 percent.
Concord women 15th at regionals
The Concord University women’s cross country team placed 15th at the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional Championship Saturday morning at Schenley Park.
Concord finished the meet with 383 points. CU was also the top Mountain East Conference team at the meet as it finished four points ahead of Charleston.
Senior Bailey Knowles of Christiansburg led the charge for CU as she crossed in 39th place, completing the 6,000-meter course in 26:29.
The first four scoring runners for the Mountain Lions were all seniors as Karleigh Thompson followed in 58th with a time of 27:03. Megan Stemple had her best showing of the season as she ran 28:09 and placed 93rd. Kaylin Kessinger was a second behind Stemple and placed 96th.
Senior Kenna Knowles ran 28:17, finishing 98th.
