Sterling, Kan. – The Tabor women's cross country team has spent the year pleasantly surprising their first-year head coach Eric Schwab. On Saturday, the women capped off an outstanding year of improvement with the biggest surprise of all finishing 5th place in the KCAC championship meet in Sterling.

"Our entire women's team had their best race of the season, with Jessica Vix (SR/Minot, ND) running a very large lifetime best," said Schwab. "We outperformed several teams who started out the year ahead of us.  Many of our runners have shown large improvements since we began training together in August."