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<span>Dominant Cross-Country Takes Pac-12 Title</span>
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<p>With a women鈥檚 victory at the Pac-12 Championships in late October, the Buffs have won 10 of 14 conference team titles since CU and Utah joined in 2011.</p>
<p>Leading the way this fall was junior <strong>Dani Jones</strong> (IntPhys鈥�20), who claimed the individual crown in the women鈥檚 6K race with a time of 18 minutes, 57.3 seconds. Jones, who was named the Pac-12 Women鈥檚 Cross Country Athlete of the Year, is the first Buff to earn an individual cross-country title since <strong>Jenny Simpson</strong> (Econ, PolSci鈥�09) won the Big 12 Championships in 2009.</p>
<p>鈥淪he was smart and patient,鈥� CU cross-country coach Mark Wetmore said of Jones. 鈥淪he kept herself within the front the whole time and closed hard.鈥�</p>
<p><strong>Kaitlyn Benner</strong> (ChemBioEngr, Soc鈥�18) and <strong>Sage Hurta</strong> (ApMath, ChemBioEngr鈥�19) also finished in the top 10 to lead CU to an 18-point victory over Oregon and Stanford, which tied for second. The win marked Colorado鈥檚 third women鈥檚 conference title in as many years.</p>
<p>CU鈥檚 men finished second to Stanford by just six points, in what was essentially a two-team race. UCLA was a distant third, 56 points behind the Buffs.</p>
<p>Stanford鈥檚 Grant Fisher won the men鈥檚 8K race in 23:44.9, with CU鈥檚 <strong>Joe Klecker</strong> (BioChem鈥�20) second, less than 4 seconds later (23:48.0).</p>
<p>Prior to 2017, the Colorado men had claimed all six of the Pac-12 team titles in cross-country.</p>
<p>鈥淚 think our men ran their best race of the year,鈥� said Wetmore. 鈥淲e are smart and patient and ran really hard. We knew Stanford was coming in as a team that was a little under-ranked. It was a war and we lost by a couple of points, but I am real proud and happy.鈥�</p>
<p><em>Read the results of the NCAA cross-country championships <a href="/coloradan/2017/11/30/cross-country-teams-place-high-not-first" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </em><br>
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<div>Colorado is synonymous with cross-country excellence. </div>
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