STANFORD, Calif. – At Saturday's NCAA Cross Country Championships, Stanford will be represented by two regional award winners: Ella Donaghu and J.J. Clark.
Donaghu was named West Region Women's Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Collegiate Cross Country and Track and Field Association. Clark was honored with the Tom Heinonen Award as the West Region's Women's Coach of the Year.
Clark, in his first year as Stanford's Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field, has gathered Coach of the Year honors in both the Pac-12 Conference and West Region. The Stanford women won both championships for the first time since 2007 and are ranked No. 2 in the nation going into the NCAA meet in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Donaghu, a redshirt junior from Portland, Oregon, won the NCAA West Regional in Colfax, Washington, on Friday, covering the 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) course in 19:50.8. She also was second at the Pac-12 Championships on Nov. 1 in Monmouth, Oregon, to teammate Fiona O'Keeffe during a 1-2-3 Cardinal finish.
Donaghu, who was sixth in the 1,500 meters at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, will be seeking her first cross country All-America honor when the Cardinal toes the line at the LaVern Gibson Championship Course. The women's race begins at 8:15 a.m. PT, followed by the men's race at 9:15 a.m.
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Stanford's All-West Region
Men: Steven Fahy, Alex Ostberg, Alek Parsons, Thomas Ratcliffe.
Women: Abi Archer, Ella Donaghu, Julia Heymach, Jessica Lawson, Jordan Oakes.
