Point Park's Murtha runs away with RSC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week
FLORENCE, Ky. -- Point Park (Pa.) University freshman Jenny Murtha registered her first-career meet win on her way to River States Conference Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week for Oct. 17-23.
Murtha, from Pittsburgh, Pa., placed first overall of 72 runners at the Lebanon Valley College Last Chance Meet with a time of 23 minutes, 50 seconds in the 6K-race.
She beat the rest of the field by 24 seconds to lead Point Park to the team championship in the standings. Murtha is the third different Pioneers women's runner to claim runner of the week this year.
Murtha and the Pioneers are off until the River States Conference championship meet Nov. 5 hosted by WVU Tech.