Lucky number 13? Like something out of a Greek epic, the Athenas “Apollo-gized” to no one and sprinted across the finish line last weekend, “Zeus-staining” their winning streak. On Saturday, Oct. 28, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) women’s cross-country team earned their thirteenth straight SCIAC championship title, and finished with six runners in the top 10.
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Walk on wonder hits the ground running to two-time XC All-American
All-American runner Natalie Bitetti CM ’24 describes cross country as “a very simple sport.” Well, that might be easy for her to say. After finishing in the top 20 of every race in her debut season, and winning SCIAC athlete of the week after each race she ran in her junior season, all Bitetti knows is winning. The decorated athlete was originally recruited for CMS’s softball team, but after running just one season in high school she made the bold choice to walk onto the cross country team and has been a star ever since.
OPINION: CMS athletics functions like Greek life — and that culture needs to go
CMS needs to acknowledge its problematic hazing and peer pressure culture, argues former athlete Camille Forte CM ’23.
Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country wins second straight national title
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s cross country team won its second straight national championship Saturday, defending a title it earned for the first time in 2019. In a neck-and-neck finish, the Athenas were national runners-up.
‘Run for the team and run for each other’: How the CMS women’s XC team became unstoppable in the 2010s
Having swept all the SCIAC championships during the 2010s, the CMS women’s cross country team has dominated their competition every year.
NCAA postseason roundup: 5C soccer and cross-country teams advance, Athena volleyball knocked out early
NCAA roundup: 5C teams make a name for themselves on the national stage, including CMS soccer, P-P women’s soccer and P-P and CMS XC.
Athenas win 10th straight SCIAC Championship, Stags defeat Sagehens in tiebreaker to become conference champs
The CMS women’s cross country team picked up its 10th straight SCIAC championship , while the Stags beat out the Sagehens in a tiebreaker.
RECAP: Stags’ cross-country finishes fifth at UC Riverside Invite
The Stags finished fifth in the 8,000-meter invitational race at UC Riverside on Sept. 14, the best performance for a Division III team there.
RECAP: Athena harriers take sixth at UC Riverside Invite
CMS women snagged sixth place in the 6,000-meter invitational event and seventh in the 5,000-meter open race at the UC Riverside Invite on Sept 14.
CMS, P-P men on SCIAC cross-country collision course as Athenas look for 10th straight title
This season, the Athenas are attempting a feat nearly unheard of in college sports: a 10th straight conference championship. Meanwhile, P-P is still vying for the conference title that has eluded them for years.