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Cincinnati’s Sandusky, Wichita State’s Wright Take Home Season’s First American Weekly Cross Country Awards

IRVING, Texas – The American Athletic Conference has announced the winners of the league’s weekly cross country honors, for the competition week ending Sunday, September 5.

Men’s Athlete of the Week
Alec Sandusky * Gr. * Cincinnati
Sandusky dominated the men’s 6K to kick off his 2021 season at the Butler Twilight on Sept. 3 in Carmel, Indiana. Sandusky traversed The Hill at Northview course in 17:42.0 to take the individual title and lift Cincinnati to a team victory. Sandusky’s average mile split was 4:44.8 and his overall margin of victory was just over seven seconds.