ROUND ROCK, Texas – Behind the performance of SCAC Runner-of-the-Year Peter Callan, Colorado College earned the program's second men's cross country title in three years Saturday morning at Old Settlers Park. Results | Official Website | Facebook Photo Album
Callan, a freshman from San Francisco, Calif., earned both SCAC Newcomer- and Runner-of-the-Year honors as he crossed the line ahead of the 58-runner field with a winning time of 25:59.28.
By earning individual medalist honors, Callan becomes the first freshman since Thomas Pillow of Trinity University in 1996, and just the second all-time, to earn SCAC Runner-of-the-Year honors.
He is also CC's ninth individual men's winner at the SCAC meet since the Tigers joined the conference in 2006.
Colorado College had six of the top 10 runners in the meet as Tigers crossed the finish line in first, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth place and 10th place. CC scored 25 points to finish ahead of second-place Trinity University, which finished with a score of 32.
"What a great moment for our team," Colorado College head coach Ted Castaneda said. "We fought tooth and nail with Trinity the whole way through and we knew it would be a dogfight. We didn't really know until last half mile that we were going to win the meet. These guys worked so hard this entire season and it paid off today."
Rounding out the team standings, Texas Lutheran Lutheran was third with 109 points, the host school Southwestern University was fourth with 112 points, University of Dallas finished fifth with a score of 138, Austin College was sixth with 154 points and Schreiner University placed seventh with a score of 184.
2016 Men's Cross Country All-Conference Team
1. Peter Callan, Colorado College - 25:59.28
2. Austin Brown, Trinity University - 26:23.48
3. Brian Wongshotigul, Trinity University - 26:25.00
4. Tony Calderon, Colorado College - 26:36.89
5. Conor Terhune, Colorado College - 26:37.34
6. Michael Erickson, Trinity University - 26:43.28
7. Max Blackburn, Colorado College - 26:55.50
8. Jack Williams, Colorado College - 26:55.51
9. Andy Cottrell, Trinity University - 27:04.28
10. David Eik, Colorado College - 27:07.31
11. Thomas Hogan, University of Dallas - 27:12.53
12. Colton Hawkins, Trinity University - 27:20.50
13. Ethan Holland, Colorado College - 27:35.82
14. Josh Im, Southwestern University - 27:40.77
