ACWORTH, Ga. – 18 members of the Kennesaw State men's and women's cross country teams competed at the Stan Sims Cross Country Opener at Allatoona Creek Park on Friday morning.
 
The KSU women and men both took home third place.
 
In the men's four-mile run, Collins Kipkemboi finished second with a time of 18:50.0. Brian Limo placed fourth in 19:32.4. In his KSU debut, Ethan Bridge ran a time of 21:20.7. Freshman Nate Pacetti crossed the line in 21:35.0 to secure 26^th. Diego Fernanedes rounded out the scoring placing 27th in a time of 21:39.9.
 
The women were led by Madison Seiler, who placed eighth in the 5K with a time of 18:17.0. In her collegiate debut, Emily Wester ran 18:26.7 to place 10^th. She was followed by May Humpert who crossed the line in 11^th at 18:35.7. Freshman Antonia Krauslich took home 14^th in 18:46.3. Sammy Hartman closed out the scoring placing 17^th in a time of 18:55.5.
 
 
Quotable
Head coach Adam Bray
"I thought today went really well for our teams. I wanted to see if our groups could execute our plan of being controlled early on and then finishing hard. They most certainly were able to do that! The temperatures have been quite high recently so we wanted to be more conservative and treat this race as more of a hard effort instead of a race.  It was still good to see both groups compete hard at the end of their races, however we are just getting started and I felt like the efforts today are just the beginning of bigger results down the road."
 

Up Next
Kennesaw State will return to action Sept. 19 at the John McNichols Invitational, hosted by Indiana State  in Terre Haute, Indiana.
 

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