USI’s Lutz, Roberts Net GLVC Weekly Honors
University of Southern Indiana senior Noah Lutz (Evansville, Indiana) and junior Emily Roberts (Fredericktown, Ohio) have been named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Male and Female Cross Country Runners of the Week, respectively.
Lutz is coming off his first collegiate cross country victory this past Friday as he led the No. 8 Screaming Eagles to a perfect score of 15 points among the non-NCAA Division I teams at the season-opening Gabby Reuveni Early Bird. Lutz crossed the finish line with a six-kilometer time of 19 minutes, 0.9 seconds, nearly 10 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.
This marks the first career GLVC Runner of the Week award for Lutz, who is a two-time All-GLVC honoree on the cross country course.
Roberts is earning her third-career GLVC Runner of the Week award after finishing first at the Gabby Reuveni Early Bird this past Friday. Roberts, who finished fifth at the NCAA II Championships last year, completed the 4k in 13:57.60 to lead the No. 10 Eagles to a perfect score of 15 amongst the non-NCAA Division I teams in attendance.
Had the meets been scored with the Division I teams, both USI’s men and women would still have posted first-place finishes.
The Eagles return to action September 16 when they compete at the Michigan State University Spartan Invite in East Lansing, Michigan.
