Cross Country: 2019 Championship Hosting The fall season saw the Ursuline Cross Country program chosen to host the 2019 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championships at Laurel School’s Butler Campus. By Brandon Stewart
Hosting a championship requires a huge commitment from the athletics staff, the cross country coaching staff, and the college community to help ensure a positive championship experience for the nearly 300 student athletes from 11 institutions that competed in late October. Head Coach Alaric Best and his staff designed the championship course layout that was submitted to the conference over the summer for approval from the league’s coaches’ and conference office. The day of the meet consisted of laying out the course, reviewing the course map with the teams, coaches, and officials to ensure accuracy, providing a hospitality room for coaches, working with the timing company to provide accurate results to each institution, along with many other details to help enhance the championship experience for the student-athletes. The Ursuline team was well represented with eight students setting personal bests in the women’s 6K race. athletics 17
