SEC Women's Cross Country Title Returns to Gainesville; Gator Men Fifth at League Championship
Nashville, Tenn.
Photo by: Cheryl Treworgy, PrettySporty.com
For the third time in the last four years – and the sixth time overall – the Gator women’s cross country squad brought the SEC Title back to Gainesville. After winning back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010, the Orange and Blue struck again this year for its sixth SEC title (’84, ’96, ’97, ’09, ’10, ’12) in women’s program history, the second-most for an SEC women’s cross country squad. UF’s men’s squad turned in a fifth-place showing at the 2012 league meet for the program’s 16th straight top-five SEC finish.
The women’s cross country squad made it two Southeastern Conference Titles for the Gators this year so far – both coming in the last 24 hours – as Gator soccer defeated South Carolina, 3-0, on the road for their SEC-leading 12th conference championship.
Six Gators ran lifetime best 6K marks and all five scorers turned in top-25 finishes to lead the women to the 2012 SEC Title at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, including second-place finisher Florence Ngetich(Eldama Ravine, Kenya), who clocked in at 20:27.41 for the sixth-fastest time in Florida history as the Gators’ highest finisher in the women’s field of 124 athletes.
