Meet: CSUSB Coyote Challenge
Location: San Bernardino, Calif.
Date: Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018
Team Finish: 1st out of 19 teams
Top Finisher: Shelby Eberwein (4th, 17:52.8)
 
COURSE REPORT: Seniors Shelby Eberwein and Lisa Flora joined sophomore Marina McDonough in the top 10 to lead the Cal State San Marcos women's cross country team to its first race victory of 2018 at the Cal State San Bernardino Coyote Challenge on Saturday morning.
 
FINISH LINE

• For the first time in her career, Eberwein was CSUSM's top finisher with a fourth place finish in a time of 17:52.8.
• Flora was CSUSM's second finisher, posting a time of 17:56.1 to earn a sixth-place finish while McDonough crossed the line at 17:57.4 to take eighth place.
• Junior Alicia Villarreal took 20th (18:40.6) and sophomore Jax Heckers rounded out CSUSM scorers with a 30th-place finish.
• The next two runners for CSUSM to cross the line were Brianna Gutierrez (50th, 19:07.3) and Clarissa Garcia (79th, 19:39.1)

 
THOUGHTS FROM COACH OLSON
"Our top 5 women competed tough today. They did a good job packing up and battling UC San Diego the entire race. This was a big step forward from a week ago and there is still a lot of improvement to come. Lewis will the a perfect next challenge for our top 7."
 
TEAM RESULTS 
1. Cal State San Marcos – 68
2. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps – 74
3. UC San Diego – 82
4. Cal State San Bernardino – 149
5. Cal Poly Pomona – 165
6. Glendale – 195
7. Concordia Irvine – 208
8. Hartnell – 256
8. Redlands – 256
10. San Bernardino Valley – 339
11. La Verne – 341
12. Cal State L.A. – 359
13. Chapman – 379
14. Hawaii Hilo – 443
15. Wisconsin Lutheran – 478
16. Palomar – 480
17. Imperial Valley – 504
18. University of San Diego – 532
19. Sequoias – 537
 

CSUSM RESULTS
4. Shelby Eberwein – 17:52.8
6. Lisa Flora – 17:56.1
8. Marina McDonough – 17:57.4
20. Alicia Villarreal – 18:25.4
30. Jax Heckers – 18:40.6
50. Brianna Gutierrez – 19:07.3
79. Clarissa Garcia – 19:39.1
89. Arianna Garcia-Swantek – 19:50.1
94. Jessica Ferguson – 19:58.6
108. Sydney Teslow – 20:13.0
116. Sammi Chapa – 20:21.1
126. Jenna Rosendin – 20:43.4
 
 
WHAT'S NEXT
The Cougars next travel to the Midwest for the Lewis Conference Cross-over in Romeoville, Illinois on Oct. 6.