CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Three Wildcats ran sub-19 minute times on Saturday as Indiana Wesleyan University earned 13th place out of 35 teams at the 36th annual NAIA Women’s Cross Country National Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Game Vitals

• Team Finishes:  1. Northwest Christian (Ore.) - 98 , 2. British Columbia (B.C.) - 118, 3. Biola (Calif.) - 170…No. 12 Shawnee State (Ohio) - 385, No. 13 Indiana Wesleyan - 387
• IWU Top-7:  No. 57 Angel Osladil (SR/Gibson City, Ill.), No. 61 Sarah McBeath (JR/LeHigh Acres, Fla.), No. 75 Isabel Wharton (SR/Laurel, Del.), No. 88 Caitlin Chastain, No. 106 Brooke Horswell (SR/Charleston, W.Va.), 113. Megan Sanchez (JR/Hudsonville, Mich.), No. 141 Katherine Arch (SR/Iowa City, Iowa)
• NAIA Top- 25 Rank:  Indiana Wesleyan - No. 8
• Location:   McAlpine Creek Park   |   Charlotte, North Carolina 
• Brief:  Three Wildcats ran sub-19 minute times on Saturday as Indiana Wesleyan University earned 13th place out of 35 teams at the 36th annual NAIA Women’s Cross Country National Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina.

What Went Down

• There were 35 teams in this year’s field. Indiana Wesleyan was 13th.
• Northwest Christian (Ore.) won the national championship with 98 points. NCU was paced by three top-10 finishers and their fourth runner was 11th.
• Angel Osladil led Indiana Wesleyan with a time of 18:49 on the 5,000-meter course. She finished 57th in the team competition.
• Sarah McBeath was two seconds behind Osladil and was 61st place in 18:51.
• Isabel Wharton was the third Wildcat to break 19 minutes today. Wharton crossed the line in 18:58 for 75th place in the team competition.
• Caitlin Chastain and Brooke Horswell rounded out the Indiana Wesleyan scoring. Chastain was 88th place in a time of 19:05 and Horswell was 106th in 19:18.
• Megan Sanchez was sixth for Indiana Wesleyan and 113th in the team competition with a time of 19:23. Katherine Arch was the final IWU runner and she was 141st in 19:39.

Coaches Corner

• “We had a very solid day finishing 13th. Our one to four gap was close like it has been this year but there was a little bit more gap between our four to five than we’ve had the last few meets. But overall it was another great day for the ladies.”  

Extra! Extra!

• The Wildcats placed 19th at last year’s NAIA National Championship meet.
• The 13th place finish is the best for Indiana Wesleyan since 2010. That year IWU was ninth place.

Next Time Out

• The NAIA National Championship race was the final competition of the 2015 season.