Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology juniors Rachel Krasich (Westfield) and Matt Repking (Effingham, Ill./ Teutopolis) earned Cross Country Runner of the Week honors from the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, in results released Monday.

Krasich earned fifth-place honors in the Earlham College Invitational on Saturday in Richmond. Her five-kilometer time of 19:57 helped the Engineers place third in the 13-team meet.

Krasich becomes the first repeat winner of the HCAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week Award in the 2006 season.

Repking finished second out of 138 runners and defeated all non-scholarship competition in the Earlham Invitational. He ran an eight-kilometer time of 26:49, the second-fastest mark of his college career.

Rachel Krasich -- HCAC Women's Cross Country
Runner of the Week

Repking's effort helped lift Rose-Hulman to a second-place finish in the 13-team invitational, behind only NCAA Division I Butler.

The Engineer cross country teams return to action at the Millikin College Invitational on Friday, October 13.