CANFIELD, Ohio (Oct. 31) – Led by an individual conference championship performance from junior Grace Neubert, the Saint Vincent College women's cross country team earned a fourth-place finish at the 2026 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Cross Country Championships on Saturday afternoon at the Gorby Family Championship Cross Country Course in Canfield, Ohio.
Neubert captured the PAC individual championship after completing the 6,000-meter course in a time of 22 minutes, 34 seconds. She was the first runner from a PAC member institution to cross the finish line, finishing second overall behind Saint Francis University's Nina Connors, who competed as a non-conference participant.
Neubert finished 17.6 seconds ahead of Grove City's Cayla Lawrence, the next PAC finisher, who crossed the line in 22:51.6.
The Bearcats finished fourth in the 10-team field with 104 points, narrowly trailing third-place Washington & Jefferson (88). Grove City captured the team championship with 48 points, while Franciscan finished second with 76. Geneva rounded out the top five with 108 points, just four behind Saint Vincent.
Joining Neubert with a strong performance was senior Kristen Prince, who finished 11th overall and ninth among scoring PAC runners with a time of 23:30.4. Prince's performance gave the Bearcats two runners among the top 10 conference finishers.
Junior Lauren Schemmel was the third Saint Vincent runner to cross the finish line, placing 35th overall with a time of 24:54.1, good for 27th in the conference scoring standings.
Junior Samantha Straub followed, finishing 41st overall in 25:11.0, while sophomore Jane Huss rounded out the Bearcats' five scoring runners with a time of 25:37.3, placing 50th overall.
Junior Emma Hyder finished in 26:09.4, while freshman Madison Lucas completed the course in 30:16.0 to round out Saint Vincent's seven competitors.
Saint Vincent's five scoring runners combined for a total time of 2:01:47, averaging 24:22 per runner.
Neubert's championship performance highlighted the afternoon for the Bearcats, who placed two runners among the top nine PAC scorers and finished just four points shy of a top-three team finish.
