Keena Goze earned a top five finish for College of the Ozarks at the University of Arkansas Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival with a 5,000-meter time of 18:22. The senior from Rogers, Arkansas, in a return to her home state, averaged a 5:54 mile time to take fourth out of 222 runners. Ozarks as a team finished fifth out of 22 teams in competition with Goze recording the top time.
Nominees: Keena Goze, College of the Ozarks; Naomi Sotelo, Azusa Pacific University