NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) recognized NC State’s second consecutive NCAA Division I Cross Country Championship with a pair of national honors, as NCAA individual champion Katelyn Tuohy was named the National Women’s Athlete of the Year for cross country and Laurie Henes repeated as Women’s National Coach of the Year.
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USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Women’s XC Athlete of the Year
Katelyn Tuohy never met a race she didn’t want to win and a course record she didn’t want to break. Tuohy, the NCAA Division I Women’s Cross Country National Athlete of the Year and recipient of the Lance Harter Award, did both at the 2022 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Stony Point, New York, native traversed the challenging 6k course in 19:27.6, taking nearly 33 seconds off the previous best. Tuohy capped an undefeated season with her victory at the Greiner Family OSU Cross Country Course, as she also topped the podium at four other major meets this fall: the Southeast Region Championships, the ACC Cross Country Championships, the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational and the Joe Piane Invitational.
USTFCCCA National Women’s Coach of the Year
Laurie Henes showed NC State the way and her team turned away every challenger all season long. Henes, in her 1 th year as head coach of the Wolfpack, led them to the team title at the 2022 NCAA DI Cross Country Championships and was named the Women’s Cross Country National Coach of the Year. NC State, which became the first women’s program to go back-to-back at the NCAA Championships since Villanova in 2009 and 2010, went undefeated in 2022: the Wolfpack captured team titles at the Southeast Region Championships, ACC Cross Country Championships, Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, Joe Piane Invitational and the adidas Wolfpack Invitational. Henes is the first coach to earn this honor in consecutive years since Gina Procaccio of Villanova in 2009 and 2010.
In addition, ACC student-athletes and coaches earned the following USTFCCCA Regional honors:
Southeast Region Men’s XC Athlete of the Year
Parker Wolfe, North Carolina
Northeast Region Men’s XC Coach of the Year
Brian Bell, Syracuse
Southeast Region Men’s XC Coach of the Year
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