INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Athletes of the Week were announced for the third week of the regular season on Tuesday.
 
Trevecca Nazarene’s Brandon Laws and Hillsdale’s Hannah McIntyre earned top honors around the league following their performance in 8K and 6K distances.
 
The Great Midwest saw six men’s and women’s programs ranked in the USTFCCCA Top-25 for Week 1. Cedarville topped the women’s rankings at No. 9 followed by No. 14 Hillsdale, No. 21 Malone and Walsh (receiving votes).
 
The men were represented by Walsh with a ranking of No. 23 while Hillsdale, the preseason coaches poll favorite, received votes.
 
Brandon Laws
Trevecca Nazarene
Senior- Sevierville, TN (Sevier Co. HS)
 
With a top-seven finish in last year’s conference meet, Laws was named a member of the 2016 Great Midwest Athletic Conference First Team. He opened his senior campaign with one of the best 8K times in the conference so far this year.
 
His time of 25:42.70 outpaced the rest of the conference by a thin margin and was good enough for a 28th-place finish at the Stegemoller Classic, which is a Pre-Nationals event hosted by University of Southern Indiana.
 
The Trojans finished 14th in the field as a team at the event and will next compete at their own Trevecca D2 Showcase on Saturday, September 23.
 
Laws did not compete in TNU’s first event of the season, the Belmont Opener.
 
This is Laws’ first career cross country weekly honor. He earned indoor track athlete of the week last season as a junior.
 
Hannah McIntyre
Hillsdale
Senior – Colorado Springs, CO (Palmer HS)
 
McIntyre also started her senior season with an impressive showing at the MSU Spartan Invitational hosted by Michigan State University. She finished her 6K in a time of 22:02.10 which was good enough for 10th in the entire meet, which included Division I runners from five schools.
 
It also ranked as the best time for a 6K for the 2017 season in the conference, and it also ranks as the 19th-fastest 6K time in conference history since 2012.
 
She helped lead the 14th-ranked Chargers to a second-place finish overall among Division II schools, which included placing above 13th-ranked Northern Michigan by 48 points.