LUBBOCK, Texas – Senior Brooke Latham and junior Kinley Kite both finished in the top 10 to earn All-Lone Star Conference honors, and the Oklahoma Christian women placed fourth at the 2026 LSC Cross Country Championships on Saturday morning at the Lubbock Christian University Cross Country Course. It was the program's best conference finish since 2022. The OC men placed fifth in a 14-team field.
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The fourth-place finish is the Eagles' best at the LSC Championships since they placed third in 2022. It also ends a run of three straight fifth-place finishes and is the second-highest team finish in the program's eight seasons in the Lone Star Conference.
Latham led the way with a fifth-place finish in the 6,000-meter race, crossing the line in 21:57.1. She was the first runner across the finish line who wasn't from champion West Texas A&M. Latham improved on last year's seventh-place finish and earned All-LSC honors for the third straight season.
Kite finished close behind in seventh place in 22:06.7, eight spots better than her 15th-place finish in 2024, when she was named LSC Freshman of the Year. Saturday's finish gave Kite her second career All-LSC honor. The top 15 finishers in each race earned all-conference recognition.
OC scored 122 points, 14 points behind third-place Midwestern State, and finished 12 points ahead of fifth-place St. Edward's. West Texas A&M won the team title with 19 points.
Senior Itzel Flores was OC's third scorer, placing 24th in 23:22.1. Senior Caroline Karr, the 2022 LSC Freshman of the Year, finished 37th in 23:50.1, and sophomore Aletheia Bigelow completed the Eagles' scoring five by placing 57th in 24:52.0.
Juniors Lauren Kirk (61st, 25:00.9) and Kristen Kirk (63rd, 25:02.6) finished back to back. Freshman Graycie Lucas (73rd, 25:18.4) and sophomore Emerson Hodde (98th, 26:37.8) also ran for OC.
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The Eagles packed their top four runners into the top 31 of the 8,000-meter race and scored 139 points. They finished 12 points behind fourth-place Cameron and 25 points ahead of sixth-place UT-Tyler. West Texas A&M won the men's title with 26 points.
Freshman Ryder Strohman led OC in his first conference championship race, placing 20th in 25:34.7. Junior Blake Morrison was right on his shoulder in 21st, finishing just four-tenths of a second later in 25:35.1. Junior Cole Davenport placed 27th in 25:48.2, and junior Cole Powell finished 31st in 25:57.2. Sophomore Maxton Barker rounded out the scoring five in 40th place with a time of 26:13.4.
Sophomore Dauntae Herrera (57th, 26:35.7), freshman Ian Chang (71st, 26:56.1) and freshman Ben Stevenson (87th, 27:30.7) also competed for the Eagles.
