INDIANAPOLIS – Hillsdale and Walsh earned Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Athletes of the Week accolades for the fifth week of the regular season on Tuesday.
 
There was some impressive times recorded around the league in various events, including the All-Ohio Championships and Greater Louisville Classic among several others.
 
Men’s Athlete of the Week
Joseph Humes
Hillsdale
Junior
Maybee, MI (Milan HS)
 
The men’s seemingly unbreakable 8K record previously held by Cedarville’s Matt Brooker in 2013 has stood the test of time – until now.
 
Not one, but two accomplished runners from the conference were able to beat Brooker’s 24:27.07 standard that has held up for over five years.
 
Humes and Cedarville’s Ethan Sullivan both get credit for now breaking the previous record with Humes doing so at the Greater Louisville Classic and Sullivan shattered the previous best by three seconds with his fifth-place finish at the All-Ohio Championships.
 
Humes’ time of 24:17.80 was the winning mark in the Greater Louisville Classic as he beat out 411 other runners from 44 schools in one of the largest races from the previous weekend.
 
The Chargers would also finish fourth in the team scoring as Humes averaged 4:53.20.
 
Humes is also the Great Midwest record holder in the 5K distance, a standard he reset back at the Jeff Drenth Memorial in August.
 
Humes earned his second conference weekly honor for the current season and third since the Chargers joined the Great Midwest in 2017-18.
 
Women’s Athlete of the Week
Brianna Coy
Walsh
Senior
Canton, OH (GlenOak HS)
 
Hailing from the exact city and high school where this year’s Great Midwest Cross Country Championships will be conducted, Coy has to be considered a frontrunner to win the women’s 6K.
 
Coy only enhanced her regular season status for the 11th-ranked Cavaliers at the All-Ohio Championships with the year’s best time and a fifth-place finish.
 
Coy ran a 21:42.70, good for 22nd overall in conference history since 2012, and helped Walsh win the DII portion of the team scoring with six other Great Midwest schools in the running.
 
Coy is the second Walsh runner (Andra Lehotay) to collect conference weekly cross country honors this season.
 
This is also her first career conference weekly honor in cross country or track and field.