CHICAGO -- One of University of St. Francis' all-time top efforts has earned Carmen Solis her second Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week award in 2026, the league office announced on Wednesday.

Competing in the prestigious Aquinas College (Mich.) NAIA Great Lakes Challenge, Solis placed third out of 185 runners with a time of 17:44.7, which now ranks the senior fourth-best for the 5K distance in USF history.      

St. Francis, as a squad, also placed third at the meet, which included 14 teams currently ranked in the NAIA Top 25 poll or among others receiving votes.  Twenty teams in all made up the field.

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