Women’s Cross Country Wins Sixth Consecutive AMCC Championship; Hartle Garners Runner-Up

GREENSBURG, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend women's cross country team earned its sixth straight and 14^th overall AMCC Championship with 28 total points at the 2024 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championships on Saturday.

Distance: 6k
Teams: 6
Total Runners: 40

Key Moments:

* The Lions secured six of the top 10 times on Saturday
* Lindsey Hartle (Pittsburgh, PA/Avonworth) was the AMCC Runner-Up, notching a time of 25:59.8
* Freshman Baylee Dernar (Wattsburg, PA/Seneca) delivered a time of 26:50.8 for fourth-place finish in her first championships
* Macie Horvath (Hermitage, PA/Hermitage) and Bethany Litwiler (Reynolds, PA/Reynolds) placed right behind each other in sixth and seventh place with times of 27:18.0 and 27:22.0
* Rounding out the top 10 for Behrend was Alivia Hetrick (Waterford, PA/Waterford) and Sam Abate (North East, PA/North East)
* Hetrick ran a ninth-place time of 27:47.9, while Abate registered a time of 27:48.0 for 10^th place
* Ivy Laffan (Waterford, PA/Fort LeBoeuf) finished in 13^th place with a time of 28:38.7, followed by Abby Major (Erie, PA/McDowell) in 15^th place with a mark of 30:01.5
* Other Lions to compete were freshman Lynzey Reinsel (North East, PA/North East), crossing the finish line in 19th place
* Alfred State's Hailey Kumpf earned AMCC Individual Champion with a time of 25:07.4, 52 seconds faster than Hartle's finishing time
* The Lions earned 28 team points, placing ahead of second place Alfred State (39 points) to claim the conference title, followed by Carlow (86), Pitt-Greensburg (97), Mount Aloysius (106), and La Roche (155)
* The top 10 6k runners were named to the AMCC All-Conference Team