BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Penn State Behrend women's cross country team captured its fifth straight and 13^th overall AMCC Championship with 22 total points at the 2023 AMCC Championships Saturday afternoon in Buffalo.

Distance: 6k
Teams: 4
Total Runners: 35

Key Moments:

* The Lions secured five of the top 10 times Saturday for AMCC All-Conference honors
* Junior Olivia Nola (Erie, PA/Collegiate Academy) earned her second career AMCC Runner of the Year honors, running a time of 23:10.76
* Nola was neck and neck with teammate Savanna Carr (Franklin, PA/Franklin) for the entire race
* Carr finished just behind Nola with a time of 23:11.90 to be named AMCC Runner-Up
* Lindsey Hartle (Pittsburgh, PA/Avonworth) delivered a fourth place finish, crossing the finish line in a time of 24:33.18
* Rounding out the top 10 for the Lions were Bethany Litwiler (Reynolds, PA/Reynolds) and Ivy Laffan (Waterford, PA/Fort LeBoeuf), registering finishes at 25:17.50 and 25:53.84 seventh and eighth place, respectively
* Carr has won three individual championships in her collegiate career and bested her time of 24:06.4 at last season's championships, while Nola trumped her runner-up time last year of 24:35.1
* The marks by Hartle, Litwiler, and Laffan topped their times from a season ago at conference championships
* Other finishers for Behrend at Delaware Park were Haley Felton (Midway, PA/Fort Cherry) and Carly Amon (Stoneboro, PA/Lakeview), who finished with times of 28:46.24 and 31:09.79
* The Lions finished 22 points ahead of the second place school Alfred State (44 points) to claim the  conference championship, followed by Hilbert (65 points) and Wells (79 points)