WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #20
November 12, 2005
At the South/Southeast Regional, hosted by Hendrix College, senior Julie Coats, running on her home course, wins the individual title in a time of 21:57.7 to qualify for the national meet. Over at the Great Lakes Regional in Cincinnati, Ohio, DePauw finishes in third place to advance to the NCAA Division III Championships for the second consecutive year. SCAC Runner-of-the-Year Leslie Dillon led the Tigers with a second-place finish in a time of 20:46.8.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #19
November 9, 1991
The Centre College women capture the 1991 SCAC Women's Cross Country Championship on a cold morning (40 degrees) in Atlanta, Ga. Cheryl Hart wins the first of her back-to-back Runner-of-the-Year awards as the Colonels take the first-ever conference title that is awarded to a women's team in the newly formed SCAC. Hart would go to coach cross country at her alma mater and earned Coach-of-the-Year honors in 1994 - becoming the first person in league history to garner SCAC Player and a Coach-of-the-Year honors (Lance Key of Trinty and Wendie Austin-Robinson of Centre would later accomplish the same feat.)

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #18
October 27, 2007
Behind six, top 10 individual finishes, DePauw University wins its fifth straight women's cross country title with a 20-point win over Colorado College. Lauren Reich finished second, Alison Case finished fifth, Taylor Penrod was sixth, Laura Ardington was seventh, Julie Theibert was ninth and Melissa Buckiley finished 10th. The six, top-10 individual finishes in a single championship remain a conference record for a single team.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #17
November 22, 2003
First-year runner Eileen Schilling of Centre College posts the league's highest individual finish at the 2003 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships - finishing in 35th place (22:59.8). It was the first of back-to-back all-America performances for Schilling, who finished in 33rd place at the national meet a year later.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #16
November 14, 2009
The SCAC posts quite the impressive day at the various Regional Cross Country Championship meets. Trinity University junior Caitlin Masse runs a 22:56.00 6K to win the 2009 NCAA Division III South/Southeast Regional meet. Rhodes College placed four runners in the top eight to dominate the South/Southeast Regional - led by Cybil Covic (23:35.00 - second place), Taylor Stephens (23:53.00 - third place) and Melissa DeFabriziio (24:01.00 - fourth place). It was the first regional meet win for the Rhodes' women's program. By virtue of their performances, Masse and Rhodes College head coach Robert Shankman are named the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Regional Athlete and Coach-of-the-Year, respectively. In the Great Lakes Region, DePauw University's Lauren Reich turned in a solid second-place individual performance (21:28.00 - just five seconds behind the winning time) to lead her Tiger teammates to a fourth-place finish and eventual at-large bid to the national meet.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #15
November 13, 2004
In a historic day for the conference, the SCAC qualifies two women's teams for the national meet for the first time. Adding to the weekend of firsts, Trinity wins the South/Southeast Region Championship and becomes the first SCAC cross country team (men's or women's) to win a NCAA Regional meet. Led by senior Larissa Wilkinson, Trinity runners finished eighth, 13th, 17th, 18th and 19th. In the Great Lakes Region Championship, the 10th-ranked DePauw women's team - paced by a third-place showing by Natalie Shaffer - earn their first trip to the NCAA Division III Championships by placing second.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #14
November 21, 1998
Emily Ferguson of Rhodes College wins the South/Southeast Women's Cross Country Regional with a time of 18:23.50. She is the first SCAC women's cross country runner to win a NCAA regional meet since Centre College's Cheryl Hart accomplished the feat in 1991.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #13
November 13, 1999
Heather Stone of Sewanee-The University of the South wins the South/Southeast Women's Cross Country Regional with a time of 18:23. Mary Mayes of Southwestern University gives the league its first-ever 1-2 finish, coming in with a time of 19:05. In the process, Stone was named the 1999 NCAA Division III South/Southeast Region Women's Cross Country Athlete-of-the-Year by the United States Track Coaches Association.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #12
November 19, 2005
Behind Leslie Dillon's ninth-place individual finish (22:30.0), the DePauw University women finish 16th at the 2005 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University. The performance earns Dillon all-America honors. Fellow SCAC runner, Julie Coats of Hendrix College, also earns all-America honors with an 18th-place finish (22:43.5). It is the first time SCAC student-athletes have produced two all-American performances in the same national meet (men's or women's).

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #11
November 16, 2002
With a second-place finish at the South/Southeast Regional, Rhodes College's women's cross country team makes history - becoming the first SCAC women's team to qualify for the national meet, just a year after the DePauw men became the first conference team ever to earn a berth to Nationals. Rhodes runners came across the line in third, fifth and sixth as Amy Paine, Elizabeth Wester and Marie Brandewiede led the Lynx to their second-place finish.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #10
November 11, 2006
The conference has three teams qualify for the 2006 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country national meet – a new high-water mark for the SCAC in women’s cross country. Trinity University posts a second-place finish at the NCAA South/Southeast Women’s Cross Country Regional to qualify, and at the Great Lakes Regional meet in Hanover, Ind., DePauw places third to also qualify for the national meet. At the West Regional meet, hosted by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the Colorado College women place second to give the league its third entrant into the team championships.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #9
November 15, 2008
Trinity University, which had three individuals finish in the top 10, takes first place at the NCAA South/Southeast Regional Cross Country championship meet. The Tigers finish atop 24 other teams with a total of 43 points. Rhodes College's Taylor Stephens continues her amazing first-year with an individual victory at the meet - crossing the line more than 20 seconds ahead of the next competitor.

By virtue of their performances, Trinity head coach Jenny Breuer and Rhodes' Stephens are honored five days later as the South/Southeast Regional Coach and Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #8
November 16, 1991
A week after winning the SCAC women's cross country title, Centre College's Cheryl Hart finishes in first place among all individuals at the South/Southeast Regional at Christopher Newport College with a time of 18:51. A week later, and on the same course, Hart finishes 29th at the 1991 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championships. 

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #7
November 20, 1999
Heather Stone of Sewanee-The University of the South finishes fifth at the 1999 Division III Women's Cross Country Championships, hosted by Wisconsin-Oshkosh, with a personal-best time of 17:11 over the 5K course. The fifth-place finish is the best-ever for a SCAC individual at the national meet (since bested) and makes Stone the first SCAC women's cross country all-America honoree.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #6
November 17, 2007
The DePauw University women post the highest finish for a SCAC cross country team (since bested) - coming in seventh at the 2007 NCAA Division III Championships, hosted by St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. The Tigers, who finish just 11 points behind sixth-place Case Western, are led by sophomores Lauren Reich (22:42.2) and senior Taylor Penrod (22:44.8), who finish in 73rd and 74th place respectively. Trinity University, behind a 51st place finish by junior D'Ann Arthur (22:30.1), who took first place at the South/Southeast Regional a week earlier, and 56th place by junior Emily Loeffler (22:34.0), finish in 21st place in the team standings. Colorado College finishes in 31st place.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #5
November 6, 2004
DePauw University's Natalie Shaffer wins her third straight SCAC Runner-of-the-Year title and leads the Tiger women to their second consecutive SCAC crown. Shaffer, who won in 18:31.54 in the last 5K SCAC women's meet, became the second woman (following Nicole Horvath in 1995, 1996 and 1997) to win three straight conference championship meets.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #4
November 8, 1997
Rhodes College's Nicole Horvath wins her third consecutive SCAC individual title and becomes the first woman in league history to earn Runner-of-the-Year honors in three consecutive years. 

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #3
October 30, 1999
Sewanee-The University of the South's Heather Stone steals the show at the 1999 SCAC Women's Cross Country Championships. The senior finishes the 5K course at Hendrix in a time of 17:46, destroying the old conference mark of 18:35 by almost 50 seconds set four years earlier and posting a new school and course record while earning her second consecutive conference Runner-of-the-Year honor.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #2
November 21, 2009
Led by DePauw University's Lauren Reich and Trinity University's Caitlin Masse, the SCAC places two runners in the top 10 of the 2009 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championship race in Cleveland, Ohio. Reich covers the 6K course in a time of 21:50.50 to finish in fourth-place - the highest finish ever for a SCAC runner at the national meet - and claims her second consecutive all-America honor. Masse finishes with a time of 22:21.70 to become the second-ever Trinity cross country runner to earn all-America honors. Her run, an eighth-place finish, marks the best-ever finish by a Trinity cross country runner, male or female, in NCAA competition - besting former teammate Emily Loeffler's 17th-place finish in 2008.

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY - MOMENT #1
November 22, 2008
Trinity University posts the best finish by a SCAC school in national championship meet history as the Tiger women finish sixth at the 2008 NCAA Women's Cross Country Championships at Hanover College. Led by a 17th-place individual finish by senior Emily Loeffler (pictured left) with a time of 21:31.04, Trinity finishes with 317 points, just seven points behind fifth-place University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Loeffler earns all-America honors with her finish and becomes Trinity's first-ever cross country all-American, male or female. In addition, DePauw University's Lauren Reich (21:35.00 - 27th place) and Rhodes College's Taylor Stephens (21:44.90 - 35th place) earn all-America honors with their performances - giving the SCAC three individual all-Americans from the same championship meet for the first time ever.

For more on the top SCAC Women's Cross Country moment, including interviews with Coach Jenny Breuer and Emily Loeffler, click here.