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Cross Country Runs At League Championship Saturday

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.