GREENVILLE, Pa. – Geneva College sophomore Carmen Medvit (New Castle, Pa./Shenango) was named the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week on Monday for her performance at the Lock Haven Invitational on Saturday. It's Medvit's second weekly award in just three weeks of competition for the Golden Tornadoes.
Medvit ran her best time of the season at the 6K event hosted by Lock Haven, finishing in 22nd place with a time of 22:16. Her time was the third best time of any NCAA Division III runner in the race, and the fastest of any PAC runner, which contained 285 runners from NCAA Division I, II and III. She led Geneva to a 16th place team finish out of the 34 schools at the competition.
Both the men and women's cross country teams are off this weekend before returning to action on Saturday, October 8, when the Golden Tornadoes compete at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational.
Geneva College is a Christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to God and neighbor. Offering over 145 traditional undergraduate majors and programs, fully online Adult Degree Programs and high-demand graduate degrees, Geneva's programs are recognized for their high quality. Geneva has one of the top 100 undergraduate engineering programs in the nation, according to
U.S. News and World Report. Adhering to the truth of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God's Word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today's world. Geneva was founded and is governed by the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) and is a founding member of both the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and IACE (International Association for Christian Education).
