Led by junior Lauren Iagnemma, who secured her second-straight all-conference honor, the Case Western Reserve University women's cross country team placed sixth out of eight teams at the 2024 University Athletic Association Championship at Highland Park in Attleboro, Massachusetts on Saturday morning.

Iagnemma crossed the finish line sixth out of 72 total runners to earn All-UAA First Team acclaim for the first time in her career. She completed the 6K course in a time of 21:38.5, the fastest mark by a Spartan this season.

Iagnemma helped the Spartans score 159 points at the meet to finish sixth in the standings. Chicago, ranked 11th in DIII, won the meet with a score of 38, followed by fourth-ranked NYU (60), eighth-ranked WashU (75), fifth-ranked Emory (85), and 13th-ranked Carnegie Mellon (118). Rounding out the standings were Rochester in seventh place (187) and Brandeis in eighth (241).

Junior Ashley Novak recorded a career-best 6K time of 22:02.0 to place second among Spartan runners and finish 18th overall. She was followed by junior Arianna Holbrook in 45th place with a time of 23:07.9, while junior Julia Hluck was 52nd with a mark of 23:27.0, and sophomore Pimada Phongsuriya was 57th with a time of 23:49.4 to complete the Spartans scorers in the race.

First-years Becca Liaw and Julia Walko were the sixth and seventh among CWRU finishers with Liaw placing 64th overall in a time of 24:05.4 and Walko finishing 68th with a time of 24:47.4. Also in action at the UAA Championship for CWRU were junior Anna Avila, who placed 70th in a time of 24:56.9, and senior Alyssa Storm, who finished 71st in a season-best time of 25:33.7.

Emory senior Brigid Hanley won the individual UAA Championship with a time of 21:07.6.

The Spartans are scheduled to send a contingent of athletes to the Wooster Twilight 5K Challenge in Wooster, Ohio next Friday, November 8, while the team's top runners will prepare for the NCAA Great Lakes Regional on Saturday, November 16 in Shelbyville, Indiana.

Spartan Notes

• This was Iagnemma's first career All-UAA First Team honor after placing eighth at the conference championship meet last season to earn second-team acclaim. She has now placed among the top-16 finishers each of the three years she has competed at the UAA Championship.

• Iagnemma became the first Spartan women's runner to earn All-UAA First Team honors since 2021 when Jana Fisher placed third at the conference championship meet.

• The Spartans' sixth-place finish matches their placing from last season's UAA Championship, despite cutting six points off their 2023 total.