UCCS Women Take Fourth at RMAC Championships
Shannon Payne finished fourth to lead the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to a fourth-place finish at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Cross Country Championships Saturday at Chatfield State Park in Denver.
For her effort, Payne was named All-RMAC.
The Mountain Lions finished with 79 points, just five behind third place Colorado School of Mines and eight behind Western State. Adams State dominated the event with just 22 points to win its fourth straight RMAC title and 20th overall.
The RMAC Championships were a who's who of the national Top 10, with No. 1-ranked Adams State, No. 5 Colorado School of Mines, No. 6 UCCS and No. 7 Western State taking the top four spots.
UCCS' other scoring runners were Sarah Shepard (25:18, 12th), Ashley Birger (25:43, 17th), Megan Lund (25:55, 18th) and Addie Devine (27:00, 28th).
Lisa Short (27:18), Kristen Anderson (28:08), Jessica Hudson (28:55) and Leslie Bennett (28:57) also competed for UCCS but did not factor into the scoring.
Adams State's Emily Mortensen was the individual winner with a time of 23:35.
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 | Ashley Birger | Steeplechase | So. | |
 | Ashley Birger | Steeplechase | So. | |
 | Ashley Birger | Steeplechase | So. | |
 | Ashley Birger | So. | ||
| Ashley Birger | So. | ||
| Ashley Birger | So. | ||
| Ashley Birger | So. | ||
 | Megan Lund | Distance | So. | |
 | Megan Lund | Distance | So. | |
 | Megan Lund | So. | ||
| Megan Lund | So. | ||
| Megan Lund | So. | ||
 | Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
| Shannon Payne | |||
 | Jessica Hudson | Mid-Distance | ||
 | Jessica Hudson | Mid-Distance | ||
 | Jessica Hudson | Mid-Distance | ||
| Jessica Hudson | |||
| Jessica Hudson | |||
| Jessica Hudson | |||
 | Lisa Short | Distance | ||
| Lisa Short | Distance | ||
 | Lisa Short | Distance | ||
| Lisa Short | |||
| Lisa Short | |||
| Lisa Short | |||
 | Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Leslie Bennett | |||
| Additional News Stories | |||
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| November 20, 2005 |  | Two UCCS Runners Named All-American | Shannon Payne and Sarah Shepard were both named All-American at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships Saturday at Pomona, Calif. |
| November 19, 2005 |  | Payne Takes 10th at Nationals | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs runner Shannon Payne finished 10th at the NCAA Division II National Cross Country Championships. |
| November 15, 2005 |  | North Lake Tahoe Bonanza Article on Addie Devine | How do you follow three state cross country championships in your last three years of high school? |
| November 5, 2005 |  | Women's Cross Country Comes Up Short in National Bid | A promising season came to a disappointing end for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs women's cross country team Saturday at Hays, Kan. |
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