LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - In exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Colorado College's Ted Castaneda was selected SCAC Women's Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year.

This is the second straight year that Castaneda has been honored as SCAC Women's Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year. He has also earned SCAC Men's Cross Country COTY five times (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014). 

After waiting nine years for its first conference title, the Colorado College women wasted no time in picking up their second. The Tigers had four runners place in the top six and repeated as SCAC cross country champions at this year's championship event, Saturday, Oct. 31. Team Results | Individual Results

Colorado College junior Leah Wessler paced the Tiger harriers as she repeated as SCAC Women's Runner-of-the-Year with a first-place finishing time of 24:08.2.

CC junior Katie Sandfort finished fourth (24:33.5), followed by a pair of first-year runners for Colorado College as Leah Veidhuisen (24:35.5) and Allysa Warling (24:39.2) finished fifth and sixth, respectively. Veidhuisen was named SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year for her meet-best finish among first-year runners.

Juniors Allison Crimmons (25:04.5) and Stefani Messick (25:28.9) finished ninth and 10th respectively and sophomores Patty Atkinson (25:41.8) and Corey Luna (25:46.8) rounded out the CC Tigers' contingent of all-SCAC performers with 13th and 14th place finishes.

Two weeks later, Castaneda's CC women's squad posted a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Division III West Regional where Warling (22:14.6), Wessler (22:17.2) and Sandfort (22:32.7) finished 10th, 11th and 14th, respectively, as all three earned all-Region honors and a trip to the NCAA national meet on Nov. 22.

With 92 points, Colorado College finished just five points behind third-place Whitworth and 13 points behind second-place Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

Joining Warling, Wessler and Sandfort on the all-region team were freshman Leah Veldhuisen (25th - 23:04.0) and junior Allison Crimmins (32nd - 23:16.7).