Lake Forest College Sports Information
October 28, 2006
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Lake Forest Women Place Fourth, Men Eighth at MWC Championship Meet
Kelly Parsely named MWC Women’s Co-Coach of the Year


Katie Snowden Leann Kimmons
Waukesha, Wis. - The Forester cross country teams competed at the Midwest Conference Championship Meet on Saturday (October 28). Lake Forest’s women placed fourth in the standings, the highest finish in the program’s history, and the men were eighth. Forester Head Coach Kelly Parsley was named MWC Women’s Co-Coach of the Year.

For the second year in a row, seniors Leann Kimmons (Centennial, Colo./Eaglecrest) and Katie Snowden (Toronto, Ontario/York Mills Collegiate Institution) both earned all-conference honors by placing among the top 20 finishers in the women’s race. Kimmons finished eight overall with a 5-kilometer time of 20:00 and Snowden was 10th in 20:19. Snowden is the only runner in the program’s history to accomplish the feat four times and Kimmons is just the second to do it twice.

Sophomore Diane Stajszczak (Boulder City, Nev./Boulder City) placed 25th in 21:13, senior Liz Martinez (Chicago, Ill./Cristo Rey Jesuit) was 38th in 21:49, and junior Samantha Yozze (Lemont, Ill./College of Dupage) rounded out the team’s top five in 48th place with a time of 22:17.

Sophomore Andrew Hutchinson (Redwood City, Calif./Sequoia) paced the Forester men with a 42nd-place finish and 8-kilometer time of 29:00. Fellow sophomore Curt Miller (Reno, Nev./Sage Ridge School) and freshman John Thies (Los Angeles, Calif./Saint Francis) also completed the course in less than 30 minutes. Miller was 59th in 29:50 and Thies was the next runner across the line three seconds later. Sophomores Levi Paul (Austin, Minn./Governor Dummer) and Asa Reynolds (Bethesda, Md./Walt Witman) were 77th and 79th overall with times of 30:52 and 30:56, respectively.

Lake Forest will compete in the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional in Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday, November 11. The meet will be hosted by Augustana College.

Lake Forest Results: Women | Men
Overall Results