SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – North Dakota's Tom Scott has been named the Summit League Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year for the second straight season, the league offices announced on Monday.

Scott guided UND's women to its second consecutive Summit League Championship title in St. Paul, Minn., last Saturday in dominant fashion. The women recorded 22 team points, one point shy of tying the meet record for the lowest team score as all five scoring athletes earned First Team All-Summit League honors.

Shewaye Johnson became the third Fighting Hawk woman in the last four years to claim the Summit League individual winner in the 6k race with an even time of 20:30.0. That pace is the second-fastest winning time in Summit League Championship history, behind former teammate and last year's winner Jadyn Keeler.

In addition to Johnson's victory, Naja Weiler (third, 20:37.8), Olivia Correale (fifth, 20:47.5), Frida Giersdorff (20:52.4) and Marie-Louise Jorgensen (seventh, 20:55.9) dominated the field to each earn First Team All-Summit League. True freshman Leni Hirt (13th, 21:18.0) earned Newcomer of the Championship and All-Summit League Second Team honors after running a personal best 6k time.

Six All-Summit League runners is the most in program history, and the most by a single women's team since South Dakota State in 2024.

During the regular season, UND's women made program history after it received votes in week two's USTFCCCA Coaches Poll, marking the first time the Fighting Hawks have done so since transitioning to NCAA Division I. This happened after UND's monumental performance at the Gans Creek Classic in Columbia, Mo., after the Fighting Hawks finished fourth out of 29 teams. UND outlasted then-No. 22 Arkansas in the process.

In that race, Correale became the second Summit League female student-athlete to breach the 20-minute mark in the 6k, finishing in 19:55.3.

Scott oversaw Johnson's and Correale's Summit League Peak Performer of the Week accolades in addition to their All-Summit League nods. North Dakota is one of two Summit League teams with multiple weekly accolades this season, but the only team in the conference with multiple women to earn it.

At the Under Armour Pre National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind., UND's women finished 17th as a team to place in the top half of competing programs. Johnson led the team to finish 43rd, earning her weekly conference nod.

North Dakota swept the board at the Dragon Twilight at MSU Moorhead. In the season opener, 11 of the first 12 finishers in the women's 5k were Fighting Hawks, as were the top seven finishers. Johnson earned her first individual victory of the season in that race.

Over the course of the season, nine of 12 returning Fighting Hawks have set personal bests this season in the 6k.

Scott also finished second in the race for Summit League Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year. North Dakota's men finished with the silver medal in the Summit League Championship, scoring 45 points.

Again, all five scoring athletes for the men earned All-Summit League accolades, highlighted by juniors Louis-Lys Fanucchi and Matej Hrebacka, who finished third and fifth, respectively.

North Dakota now sets its sights to Ames, Iowa, where it will compete at the NCAA Midwest Regional on Nov. 13.

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