Middlebury Women Good Bet to Repeat as National Champions

This blog on college sports, kgussports.blogspot.com, is not just for the big schools. We want to recognize the small schools as well. One of those schools is Middlebury College, as small NCAA Div. lll school in Middlebury, VT, in the West-Central part of the state. The school's athletic accomplishments, however, are anything but small.

The Panthers have won a total of 29 NCAA National Championships and finished second in the running for the Learfield Sports Directors Cup for Div. lll schools in the New England Region. Williams (MASS) won the cup.

In this blog, we will focus on the Women's Cross Country Team, which won their fifth National Title in 2008 and Head Coach Terry Aldrich was named National Coach of the Year. Senior and Captain Alexandra Krieg, from Wellesley, Mass, led the way for the Lady Panthers by finishing in the top 10 in the NCAA National Championships for the third straight year. She finished 6th overall with a time of 21:14, earning herself All-American honors. Middlebury won the Championship by 50 points over second place Calvin College from Michigan.

The team has lost 5 seniors, including Krieg, but returns 25 runners from last year's championship squad, making the Lady Panthers the probable favorites to repeat as National Champions. More information on this article can be found at www.middlebury.com.