Nunnery leads NMU runners at Husky Invite
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HOUGHTON -- The women's cross country team at Northern Michigan University gave its stars the day off and let others on the squad shine at the Husky Invitational hosted by Michigan Tech on its Tech Trails on Friday afternoon.
With the GLIAC Championships set for Hammond, Indiana, on Friday morning, NMU head coach Jenny Ryan held most of her top runners back as a training strategy.
Running against the MTU team and several Northern club members, freshman Sophia Nunnery led the Wildcats with a fifth-place finish in 24 minutes, 4.4 seconds. She came in about 40 seconds after race winner Bridget Burns of MTU in 23:24.7.
Right on Nunnery's heels was freshman teammate Quinn Mangerson in sixth in 24:06.5.
Four more Northern runners also broke into the top 20. Freshman Tania Boonstra was 11th in 24:19.2, while junior Emma Dell 12th in 24:19.3. Then came a pair of Northern nordic skiers, Henriette Nilssen in 15th in 24:28.9 and sophomore Emma Klevenberg in 25:14.3.
Lillian Beutz of the NMU club team was 22nd in 25:27.0, while another trio of Wildcats were also within the top 30 -- junior Samantha Zolnierek was 23rd in 25:28.4, freshman Lola Champlin 26th in 25:28.4, and freshman Sarah Stein 29th in 25:58.9.
Also finishing from Northern varsity teams were freshman Annie Hamilton, freshman Amber Van Loon, skier Lizzie Sonnefelt, skier Jordan Parent and junior Taryn Maki, while from the school's club team was Irene Blake, Claire Filpus, Samantha Christensen, Norah Campbell, Julia Moyle, Reese Mickelsen, Abby Martin and Briana Johnson.
Story contents based on Northern Michigan University Sports Information press release reviewing the meet. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee's email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.