Cuffe Wins Pac-12's ... Again

Published by Stanford SID on October 30, 2015

COLFAX, Wash. – Aisling Cuffe won her second Pac-12 women’s cross country championship in three years and Sean McGorty was the men’s runner-up, as they led Stanford to a pair of top-three team finishes.

Cuffe, running in her first Pac-12 meet since winning in 2013, covered the 6-kilometer (3.73-mile) course at Colfax Golf Club in 19:53.1, earning a two-second victory over Colorado's Kaitlyn Benner. Cuffe became the first Stanford woman to win multiple titles since Arianna Lambie's Pac-10 triple from 2005-07.

McGorty was second to three-time champion Edward Cheserek of Oregon, 23:06.3 to 23:13.7 over 8K (4.97 miles), but Stanford earned a substantial victory over the Ducks for second, behind defending team champ Colorado. National No. 23 Stanford scored 57 points to No. 1 Colorado's 46. No. 3 Oregon was third with 83.

It was the closest Stanford has come to two-time defending NCAA champion Colorado in any race since a seven-point loss at the 2011 Pac-12 Championships. Last year, they finished 1-2 at the NCAA Championships.