Michigan
NCAA Championships
Windemuller Wraps Up Wolverines' 2023 Season with Strong Finish at NCAA Championships
11/18/2023 3:06:00 PM | Women's Cross Country
Site: Charlottesville, Va. (Panorama Farms)
Event: NCAA Cross Country Championships
Distance: 6 Kilometers (3.73 Miles)
Next U-M Event: Season Completed
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Kayla Windemuller represented the University of Michigan women's cross country team as an individual runner at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Saturday (Nov. 18) at Panorama Farms, finishing with a time of 20:37.7 to place 92nd overall against the best cross country runners in the nation in her final race of the 2023 season.
The graduate student started fast, running 82nd through the first 1,000 meters of the championship race. Windemuller fell back over the next 2K, checking in at 112th overall at the 3,000 meter-mark. She picked up 20 spots over the final half of the 6K run to finish at 92nd in a field of 247 runners.
Windemuller logged her best finish at an NCAA Championships, surpassing her previous finish of 21:48.8 last season in Stillwater, Okla.
Saturday marked the end of an excellent season for Windemuller in which she finished in the top 20 in six of seven races and logged a 6K time under 21 minutes in four of five starts. Windemuller finished as the lead Wolverine in every team competition she participated in during the 2023 season.
NC State captured the national championship for the third consecutive season.
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