Canadian ladies continued their stellar kind in collegiate cross-country this fall, with 5 athletes incomes All-American honours on Saturday on the 2024 NCAA XC Championships in Madison, Wisc. The All-American accolades are solely awarded to the highest 40 finishers within the ladies’s 6K.
Olympic steeplechaser Ceili McCabe of Vancouver led the Canadian contingent, inserting sixth with a time of 19:41—simply 20 seconds behind the winner, Kenya’s Doris Lemngole (19:21). McCabe’s excellent efficiency helped West Virginia College obtain its best-ever group end in class historical past, securing second place behind Brigham Younger College. McCabe advised Canadian Working in a pre-race interview that her aim was to place the group able to attain properly.
The Mountaineers climb onto the rostrum!! 🥈
@WVUXCTF exceeds expectations with a stellar run on the #NCAAXC Championships, taking second place off a pre-race #4 rating with a 164-point group rating led by Ceili McCabe’s sixth place end. pic.twitter.com/e1qwOF30Ht— CITIUS MAG (@CitiusMag) November 23, 2024
Hamilton’s Chloe Thomas added one other top-10 end for Canada, inserting ninth in 19:43 for the College of Connecticut. This marked the highest-ever end by a UConn ladies’s cross-country runner on the NCAA Championships and made Thomas solely the third lady from the varsity to earn All-American honours. For each McCabe and Thomas, the race was a becoming conclusion to their collegiate cross-country careers.
A standout efficiency got here from Rachel Forsyth, a Michigan State College freshman from London, Ont., who was the highest North American rookie within the discipline. Identified for her prowess over 1,500m, Forsyth is anticipated to shine throughout the upcoming NCAA indoor and outside monitor seasons. She already made historical past this summer season by incomes a silver medal on the U20 World Championships in Peru, changing into the primary Canadian feminine distance runner to realize this feat.
Third-year runners Sadie Sigfstead (Edmonton) and Florence Caron (La Malbaie, Que.) rounded out the All-American finishes amongst Canadians. Sigfstead positioned fifteenth in 19:49, changing into Villanova College’s first ladies’s cross-country All-American since 2013. Caron completed nineteenth, making historical past as Penn State’s first cross-country All-American in eight years.
All-America honors for Sadie Sigfstead after ending fifteenth on the 2024 NCAA Cross Nation Championships!
Sigfstead tallied the very best particular person end for Ladies’s Cross Nation since 2013 ✌️ pic.twitter.com/gMrpy0263t
— Villanova Athletics (@NovaAthletics) November 24, 2024
The collective success highlights the depth of the nation’s future expertise. Scoring by nation at NCAA’s confirmed Canada’s dominance, with 65 factors (among the many prime 5), they completed second to Kenya (29 factors) and edged out the U.S. (66 factors). The way forward for ladies’s distance operating is undeniably brilliant, as Canadian athletes proceed to lift the bar.