OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 13, 2021) – For the second time this cross country season, the Lone Star Conference named Oklahoma Christian distance runner Kenya Bailey as its runner of the week on Wednesday.

Bailey, a junior from Ponca City, recorded her third top-two individual performance of the season last Saturday, finishing second in a personal-best time of 17:47.09 over 5,000 meters in the Tiger Open, hosted by Fort Hays State (Kan.) at Sand Plum Nature Trail in Victoria, Kan. She led the Eagles to a ninth-place finish in a loaded 17-team field.

Her 5,000-meter time in Kansas was the third-fastest run this season by a LSC cross country runner.

Earlier this season, Bailey won the Aggie Duels in Lawton, Okla., and the Chile Pepper Festival's Prairie Fire race in Fayetteville, Ark. The LSC also named her as its runner of the week after the win in Lawton. She is one of only two LSC runners to receive more than one runner-of-the-week honor this season.

As a freshman in fall 2018, Bailey was named as the Heartland Conference's runner of the week after the first race of her collegiate career.

Bailey and the Eagles now are preparing for the LSC Championship race, to be run on Oct. 23 in Lawton, on the same course that Bailey won on in the Aggie Duels.