No. 1 Cougars win second-straight Big 12 Cross Country Championship

No. 1 BYU women's cross country won its second-straight Big 12 Championship title Friday morning at Cottonwood Creek Golf Course in Waco, Texas.

Author Mayci Taylor
No. 1 Cougars win second-straight Big 12 Cross Country ChampionshipNo. 1 Cougars win second-straight Big 12 Cross Country Championship

WACO, Texas — No. 1 BYU women's cross country won its second-straight Big 12 Championship title Friday morning at Cottonwood Creek Golf Course.

Full Results

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BYU won the conference championship with 41 points to claim its second-straight Big 12 title and top No. 4 West Virginia's 60 points and No. 6 Utah's 86 points. The Cougars led the team scoring with 54 points at the 3000-meter checkpoint, 51 points at 5000m and finished the 6000m race with a final surge to 41 points. 

Senior Lexy Halladay-Lowry led the Cougars as she placed fifth with a time of 19:50.43. Riley Chamberlain and Taylor Rohatinsky finished just after Halladay-Lowry in career-best times of 19:54.27 and 19:55.29 to place sixth and seventh, respectively. Carmen Alder was the fourth BYU woman to finish in the top-10 as she placed 10th, running 19:58.71. Destiny Everett rounded out the Cougars' scoring five with a 13th place finish and a career-best time of 19:59.56.

Halladay-Lowry, Chamberlain, Rohatinsky, Alder and Everett each earned All-Conference honors with top-15 finishes.

The conference championship marks the seventh of head coach Diljeet Taylor's career at BYU and sixth consecutive (2019-2022 WCC, 2023 Big 12). It is also the 25th conference title in BYU women's cross country history.

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Athlete

Place

Time

Lexy Halladay-Lowry

 5th 19:50.43
Riley Chamberlain 6th 19:54.27
Taylor Rohatinsky 7th 19:55.29
Carmen Alder 10th 19:58.71
Destiny Everett 13th 19:59.56
Carlee Hansen 19th 20:08.36
Anastaysia Davis 23rd 20:17.85
Taylor Lovell 24th 20:18.57
Nelah Roberts 28th 20:27.81
Jenna Hutchins 36th 20:39.14
"The mindset today was to embrace the imperfect. The race isn't going to feel great, but just stick to the race plan and fight for each other. That is what they did. They found their battles within the race and really fought."

Diljeet Taylor

BYU Women's Cross Country Head Coach
Place

Team

Points

1st

 BYU 41
2nd West Virginia 60
3rd Utah 86
4th Oklahoma State 103
5th Texas Tech 155

Next up, the Cougars will travel to Reno, Nevada for the NCAA Mountain Regional on Nov. 15.