Cross Country ends season at NJCAA Half Marathon Championships

Cross Country ends season at NJCAA Half Marathon Championships

The Pratt Community College cross country team wrapped up competition in the 2018 season at the NJCAA Half-Marathon National Championship. The blue and white were represented by three runners in the men's race and two runners in the women's race.

The top performance of the women's race came by way of none other than Cross Country All-American Aminata Kenyawani. The second-year long-distance runner continued to prove herself as one of the nation's most elite junior college athletes with a personal best performance that shattered a school record set by herself in the 2017 season. A time of 1:27:48 earned Kenyawani an eleventh-place finish among all other athletes.

Sophomore Celeste Zamarron made up the other half of the Lady Beaver's half marathon team. Zammaron took home a twenty-sixth place finish after producing a 1:39:05 time.

On the men's side freshman Erick Estrada jumped ahead to earn twenty-sixth place. Estrada led his team with a time of 1:18:36.

The other two Beavers in the race were freshman Justin Castillo and sophomore Jared Shriver. The two men were a single place apart from each other. Castillo finished as the fiftieth-best placer with a time of 1:25:59. Behind him with a time of 1:26:58 was Shriver who earned fifty-first place.

The Half Marathon Championships serves as the last long-distance event for the cross country team in 2018, but many individuals will participate in track & field events as a dual-athlete. Stay tuned to gobeaversports.com for all offseason updates regarding PCC cross country.