Lenoir-Rhyne’s Griewisch Repeats As Southeast Region Women’s Athlete Of The Year

NEW ORLEANS, La. - Lenoir-Rhyne's Kate Griewisch has been named the 2010 NCAA Division II USTFCCCA Southeast Region Women's Athlete Of The Year. USTFCCCA is the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Griewisch, a junior from Banner Elk, N.C., wins the award for the second consecutive year.

Griewisch won the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship last Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., finishing the 6K course in 20:55 and besting her nearest competitor by 36 seconds. The regional crown was Griewisch's second straight as well.

Griewisch, a three-time All-South Atlantic Conference First-Team honoree (2008-10), earned All-American honors last year after finishing 19th out of 184 runners at the national championship race in Evansville, Ind.

Griewisch won the 2009 South Atlantic Conference Championship meet and has been named the SAC Women's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete Of The Year for two years in a row.

Griewisch, who also led Lenoir-Rhyne to back-to-back league championships in 2008 and 2009, will next compete in the 2010 NCAA Division II Women's Cross Country National Championship race on Saturday, December 4, at E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky., at Noon