Charleston Southern's Micah Gilpatric Named 2022 Big South Men's Cross Country Runner of the Year
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – Charleston Southern junior
Micah Gilpatric (Greenville, S.C.) has been named the 2022 Big South Conference Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Year, it was announced today by the Conference office.
Gilpatric capped his 2022 cross country season with a 29th-place showing at the NCAA Southeast Regional, in which he was the league’s top runner with a time of 30:21 in the 10K race. He won the Big South individual title in late October with a personal-best effort of 24:04 in the 8K run -- bettering his previous time by 20 seconds to help the Bucs win the team championship. Gilpatric was the Big South Runner of the Week after winning the Adidas Challenge back in September with a time of 17:24.8 in the 6K, and was CSU’s top finisher at the Weis-Crockett Invitational (24:39 in the 8K) in mid-October.