PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – University of Memphis seniors and earned all-league honors as both finished among the top-15 at the 2017 American Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships Saturday. The league's annual fall event was held at Belmont Plateau.
Zitting placed 12 in the women's 6k race, and Sanchez-Pinto was 13 in the men's 8k.
The Memphis men's and women's squads both posted eighth-place team finishes.
Tigers Tidbits/American Athletic Conference Championships Highlights
- Zitting took home the second postseason accolade of her collegiate career. As a sophomore at Arkansas State in 2015, Zitting earned All-Sun Belt Conference honors with her 12th-place finish at the league championships race.