Anne-Marie Blaney\u2019s first season in the American Athletic Conference proved to be a memorable one as the sophomore took first place in the league\u2019s inaugural Women\u2019s Cross Country Championship with a time of 20:19.45 and helped push the Knights to a program-best fourth place finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best finish ever by UCF. This is the best they\u2019ve ever done and we\u2019ve very happy. We just go out and do our best, and that\u2019s all I can ask for as a coach. Just give me your best and we\u2019re happy and they\u2019ve all done that,\u201d said Knights’ head coach Johnny Gray.<\/p>\n
Five Knights contributed points in UCF\u2019s top-five finish as they set new personal records. Sophomore Heather Classe was the Knight\u2019s second top finisher with her time of 21:42.45 for 21st place.<\/p>\n
Amelia Williams (37th) and Senior Erica Winston (38th) emerged as UCF\u2019s third and fourth finishers with times of 22:41.51 and 22:46.86, respectively, while sophomore Jocelyn Adona rounded out the Knights\u2019 top-five with a time of 23:11.59 to place 45th overall.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone set personal records from our fifth place finisher on up,” said Gray. “All of our top runners set personal records by huge margins. Anne-Marie finished 24th last year in the (C-USA) championship, and placed first this year. Heather (Classe) took 21st, which is a huge improvement, too. I would have love to have Amy, but she is injured. If we had her we probably would have finished in the top three.”<\/p>\n
Next up, the Knights will prepare for the NCAA South Region Championships, which will take place on Nov. 15 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne-Marie Blaney\u2019s first season in the American Athletic Conference proved to be a memorable one as the sophomore took first place in the league\u2019s inaugural Women\u2019s Cross Country Championship with a time of 20:19.45 and helped push the Knights to a program-best fourth place finish. \u201cThis is the best finish ever by UCF. This is the best they\u2019ve ever done…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":54830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5832,9805,9488,1593,10941,7947,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-54829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amelia-williams","tag-american-athletic-conference","tag-anne-marie-blaney","tag-erica-winston","tag-johnny-gray","tag-track-and-field","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n