BAILEE MILLER EARNS THIRD STRAIGHT GSC WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER OF THE WEEK HONOR

        RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas – Arkansas Tech freshman Bailee Miller has been named the Gulf South Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week for the third consecutive week on Wednesday by the league office in Birmingham, Ala.

With her third straight weekly honor, Miller becomes the first female to earn GSC Runner of the Week honors for three consecutive weeks since the award’s inception in 2006.

Miller, a native of Dover, Ark., earns this week’s honor after running a time of 18:08 to finish in 16th place at last Saturday’s Missouri Southern Stampede in Joplin, Mo. The 18:08 time is the fourth fastest 5,000-meter time in school history and Miller’s fastest time of the season, bettered her old personal best of 18:23 set earlier this month at the Brooks Memphis Twilight Classic.

At the MSSU Stampede, Miller was the first GSC runner to finish the race that featured 359 runners and 41 teams. Tech, who is ranked third in this week’s latest USTFCCCA Division II South Region poll, finished the meet with a 13th place finish.

          It is the eighth time a Tech runner has been honored as a Runner of the Week since the league began the weekly honor.

          Miller and her teammates will take two weeks off before returning to action on Saturday, Oct. 10, when they compete at the Harding Bison Stampede in Searcy, Ark.  

                                                            -- Tech Athletics --