East Central University Athletics

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's first cross country runners of the week for the 2019 season. East Central University swept the honors as redshirt junior Aaliyah Regg-Wajid claimed the women's accolade and freshman Emmanuel Bett captured the men's award.
 
In her first competition as a Tiger, Regg-Wajid took first the UCO Land Run to help the Tigers place second as a team. She completed the course in a time of 18:54.25, a mere 2.46 seconds in front of the second-place finisher, Pittsburg State's Cassidy Westhoff.
 
Bett finished fourth amongst collegiate runners at the UCO Land Run to lead ECU to a third-place showing. In the first collegiate race of his career, he finished the four-mile course in a time of 20:44.12, 15 seconds faster than the next closest GAC entrant.
 
The Tigers will next be in action, Saturday, Sept. 21 at the Missouri Southern Stampede in Joplin, Mo.