BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Cross Country runners Mary Dye and Savannah Heckman are set to compete at the NCAA Southeast Regional in Louisville, Ky., on Friday, Nov. 12.
The meet will be hosted by the University of Kentucky and held at E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park - a course that WKU competed at earlier this season - with the women's 6k set to start at 10 a.m. CT.
Dye, a true freshman, has been a consistent point scorer for the women's squad throughout the season. She recorded the second-best time on the team at the Conference USA Championships, placing 43rd with a mark of 22:54.2. She currently owns PRs of 19:32.68 in the 5k and 22:54.2 in the 6k.
Heckman, a fifth-year senior, has led the women's team in all five meets this season while recording PRs in both the 5k and 6k this year. She became the first WKU women's runner to earn C-USA Athlete of the Week honors since 2014 following a fifth-place finish at the Memphis Twilight Classic in the team's season-opener. Heckman was also the first WKU women's runner to earn all-conference honors since 2015 after being named Second Team All-Conference following a 14th-place finish at the C-USA Championships.
Dye and Heckman will compete against runners from 39 other schools, including nationally ranked teams such as No. 1 NC State, No. 9 North Carolina, No. 27 Liberty and No. 30 Kentucky.
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