ST. JOSEPH, Minn. – After missing two cross country seasons in her college career, it seems that Allison Kosobud is making up for lost time.
Kosobud – who ran with the College of Saint Benedict cross country team as a first year but was injured as a sophomore and studied abroad last season – ran a nearly 40-second PR this weekend and recorded the seventh-best 5K time in CSB history. For her performance on the West Coast, Kosobud has been named the CSB Athlete of the Week.
Heading into Saturday’s race at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., Kosobud’s collegiate’ 5K personal best was 19:22, which she ran at the 2013 Fall Finale on the SJU campus. In Saturday’s field of Division I, II and III competition, she improved that time by 38 seconds, taking 29
th in 18:44.6. She was the 10
th Division III runner to cross the finish line.
As well as being a top-30 time out of nearly 200 runners, that time leaves Kosobud tied with Manon Gammon-Deering (2014) and Margot Branigan (2007) for the seventh-best 5K time in school history. The school record is 17:56, set in 1994 by Missy Petersen.
Kosobud was one of four CSB athletes to earn a spot in the top 50 in school history Saturday, and one of seven total Saint Benedict runners to run personal-best 5K times. CSB is off now until Oct. 15 when it travels to La Crosse, Wis., for the Tori Neubauer Invite.
