CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Six runners set personal records on the University of Evansville cross country teams at the Missouri Valley Conference Championships on Friday.

Senior runner Adam Oulgout (St. Paul, Minn. / Central HS) led the Purple Aces with a PR and a program Top 15 time at the MVC Championships. Oulgout ran a PR of 25:08 to lead the UE men’s team to a 10th place finish, improving on their 2023 finish by one place. On the women’s team, Evansville’s top three runners set PRs in sophomore Avery Stephens (Newburg, Ind. / Castle HS), freshman Lauren Bradley (Russiaville, Ind. / Western HS), and senior Hannah Bryan (Evansville, Ind. / Reitz HS) for a 12th place finish.

Oulgout’s PR on Friday at the Championships was the 15th best 8K time in program history right behind former runner Nick Waninger 25:06 8K from 2003. Right behind Oulgout was sophomore runner Samuel Lea (Worchester, England) with a time of 25:13.3. The Aces had three other runners who finished with sub 27-minute times in sophomore Rafael Rodriguez (Sergovia, Spain) at 25:26.6, sophomore Cedrik Flipo (Beloil, Quebec) at 25:57.3, and sophomore Woody Burrell (Ceaderburg, Wis. / Ceaderburg HS) at 26:22.1. Also scoring for the UE men was freshman Kadin McAllister (Lilburn, Ga. / Parkview HS) at 27:40.4 and freshman Andrew Potter (Warsaw, Ind. / Warsaw Community HS) at 27:47.2.

On the women’s side Stephens led the way with a PR of 23:07.3. In total five of Evansville’s women runners set 6K PRs while in Cedar Falls. Behind Stephens was Bradley with a PR of 24:28.5 while Bryan also set a PR in her final 6K as an Ace with a time of 24:31.4. Also setting PRs for the UE women was freshman Megan Allgeier (Batesville, Ind. / Batesville HS) with a time of 26:28.9 and junior Olivia Pennington (Fort Branch, Ind. / Gibson Southern HS) with a time of 26:56.2. Evansville had three other runners score on Friday morning in sophomore Kyndall Anthis (Pakota, Ind. / Princeton Community HS) at 24:45.9, sophomore Chase Hayes (Noblesville, Ind. / Western HS) at 25:51.8, and freshman Skyler Dickenson (Brownsburg, Ind. / Brownsburg HS) at 26:48.8.

The Aces women’s team ran their final race of the season at the MVC Championships. While the men’s team will race again on Friday, November 15th at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional in Akron, Ohio hosted by the MAC. The men’s 10K race on the 15th is set to start at 12 p.m.