Tranel Earns First Weekly Big 12 Award

DALLAS, Texas ? Nebraska senior Kayte Tranel earned Female Runner of the Week honors Wednesday from the Big 12 Conference after earning her highest career collegiate cross country finish last weekend.

The Hampton, Neb., native won the women’s 5K race at the Creighton/Nebraska-Omaha Classic in a time of 18:51 while leading the Husker women’s squad to its first team victory since the 2003 NCAA Midwest Regional Championships. Tranel also became the first NU individual to claim a cross country title in nearly two seasons. She finished runner-up to former teammate Anne Shadle at the 2003 Creighton/UNO Classic, the last winning race for a Husker.

Saturday’s race was the first competition for Tranel since the 2003 season. She returned for her senior season after sitting out all of 2004 while rehabbing a stress fracture.

Following a week off, the Nebraska men’s and women’s cross country teams host their only home meet of the season, the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational, on Saturday, Sept. 17. The competition begins with the women’s 6K race at 10 a.m., while the men’s 8K run follows at 10:45 p.m.