UW-W Cross Country Wins Tom Hoffman

By Angela Kelm
Asst. Athletic Director for Sports Information

*Ari De La Cerda running at the Tom Hoffman Invitational (Olivia Zinanni)*

*Gunner Schlender, Christian Patzka and Dan Anderson run in the Tom Hoffman Invitational (Olivia Zinanni)*

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men’s and women’s cross country teams won the annual Tom Hoffman Invitational in Whitewater Saturday morning. Warhawk runners swept the top three places in both races.

The women’s race featured six teams and 74 runners while the men’s race was comprised of eight teams and included 122 runners.

The women were the first to take to the course Saturday morning. Ari De La Cerda led the way and was the first to cross the finish line with a time of 23:16.7. Payton Scoggin finished just two seconds later, and Katie Erb secured third with a time of 23:52.2. Renee Forystek, Ella Hansen and Marlee Nichols added top 10 finishes for UWW. Forystek registered a time of 24:2.6 for sixth while Hansen came in eighth with a time of 24:32.4. Nichols was 10th with a clocking of 25:02.6.

Four Warhawk runners claimed 11th-15th with Carleen Snow (25:08.7) taking 11th and Brinley Everson (25:17.9), Abbey Wedwick (25:21.8) and Miranda McNally (25:35.0) sweeping 13-15th.

Also competing for UW-Whitewater Saturday were Nicole Brown (25:47.1), Jocelyn Ramirez (26:01.0), Jeana Roscoe (26:10.6), Abby Motz (26:41.6), Kaitlyn Burke (27:22.6), Kayla Fogarty (27:37.5), Bella Delgado (29:04.3) and Mollie Bennett (29:11.2).

Gunner Schlender, Christian Patzka and Dan Anderson paced the Warhawk men. They swept the top three places and finished within two seconds of Schlender’s top time of 25:44.5. Chris Allen, Alex Metko and Tucker Johnson claimed 7-8-9th with times of 26:27.0, 26:27.4 and 26:29.4 respectively.

Connor Murphy added an 11th-place finish with a clocking of 26:34.9 while Brandon Gang came in 15th with a time of 27:04.4.

Also competing for the UWW men were Landen Bratt (27:08.2), Tommy Conklin (27:09.8), Johnah Block (27:18.4), Bryce Faith (27:24.4), Matt Andreano (27:28.7), Kody Wassman (27:54.9), Nick Wendl (27:56.7), Ryan Van Dam (28:12.4), Adrian Ahuatl (28:14.3), Aiden Johnson (28:22.1), James Belus (28:44.8), Will MacCudden (29:03.4), Brandon Massman (29:03.5), Andrew Beyer (29:29.4) and Jordan Loferski (30:16.4).