LSU women’s cross country team preps for SEC meet with 10th place showing at Texas A&M

The LSU women’s cross country team warmed up for the 2023 Southeastern Conference Championships in two weeks with a 10^th place performance Friday at Texas A&Ms Arturo Barrio Invitational.

The Tigers of coach Houston Franks were fifth through the first two splits of the 6K course at the Dale Watts Country Club before settling for 10^th place with 275 points.

Lorena Rangel-Batres topped LSU in 15^th with a personal-best time of 20 minutes, 07.8 seconds. Texas Tech’s Juliet Cherubut won the meet (19:20.7).

Ella Chesnut was 46^th with a new personal best of 20:34.6, Michaela Rose was 48^th (20:39.2), Callie Hardy finished 65^th (20:51.9), Montana Monk was 106^th (21:14.7) and Sophie Martin was 138^th (21:30.0).

Utah Valley won the women’s portion of the meet with 93 points followed by UCLA (181).

Tulane won the men’s division with 103 points, ahead of runners-up Indiana with 113 points. Host Texas A&M was fourth with 192 points and LSU was 29^th with 807 points.

Jack Wallace was the Tigers top finisher over the 8K course in 105^th place at 24:42.4.

LSU returns to the SEC meet on Oct. 27 in Columbia, S.C. The meet will be televised by the SEC Network.