FORT WORTH, Texas – For the fourth time in as many meets, the MACU Women's Cross Country team again broke a team record as the Evangels posted their best 5k time in program history with a 1:47:26 at the Old Glory Gallop hosted by Dallas Baptist at the Athletic Performance Ranch on Saturday morning to close out their regular season.
 
RESULTS

• Distance: 5000-Meters (5k)
• Number of Teams: 43
• Number of Finishers: 399
• Team Score / Place: 1073 / 34^th
• Team Time: 1:47:26
• Scoring Placements:
  • Ella Miller – 217^th (169) – 20:15.68
  • Kynna Brannan – 279^th (209) – 21:00.78
  • Katelyn Newhouse – 290^th (216) – 21:12.09
  • Cora Eyler – 329^th (236) – 22:21.27
  • Kaylee Campbell – 342^nd (244) – 22:36.72

RACE SUMMARY

• After posting MACU's best 6k time of the 2026 season at last weekend's JBU Golden Eagle Invitational, freshman Ella Miller now set MACU's best 5k time of the year as she crossed the finish line in 20:15.68, making it the fifth-fastest in MACU's record book and the second-best personal best on MACU's list as well.
• Narrowly missing running her first sub 21-minute collegiate race, freshman Kynna Brannan posted still posted her best career 5k finish with a time of 21:00.78, setting the sixth-fastest personal best in MACU's record book.
• Senior Katelyn Newhouse put together a massive improvement by setting her 5k personal best on Saturday morning after crossing the finish line in 21:12.09, bettering her time by 42 seconds from the Missouri Southern Stampede last month.
• Sophomore Cora Eyler turned a corner in posting her best 5k time of her collegiate career when she crossed the line in 22:21.27, taking 19 seconds off her previous personal best set at the Southern Stampede last year.
• Kaylee Campbell scored MACU's last scoring time with a 22:36.72, making it the second-best 5k time she's posted in her two-year Evangels career.
• The Evangels have gotten stronger with every race with each this season breaking new records. After first breaking the team record with a 1:51:28 at the RSU Distance After Dark to open the season, MACU bettered it with a 1:48:33 at the MSSU Southern Stampede a month ago. MACU continued to better it this morning with a 1:47:26 and impressively doing so without one of its top runners in Dawsen Branum, who has missed the last two meets due to injury.

UP NEXT

• Mid-America Christian will now make its preparations for the postseason as the Evangels will next compete in the Sooner Athletic Conference Championships which will once again be run at Pollard's Field in Siloam Springs, Ark. on Nov. 7.