Valentic Paces CSUB Big West Cross Country Championships

Riverside, Calif. – The CSU Bakersfield women's cross country team competed in just their second Big West Cross Country Championships race at the UCR Agricultural Ops Course in Riverside, Calif.

In her first championship race as a Roadrunner, Helena Valentic led the team and improved her personal best to 22:18.3, remains 3^rd in CSUB's Top 10 performance list for the 6k.

The native of Croatia, finished 54^th overall which is the highest finish by a `Runner. Previously was 57th, held by Aj Frausto last year.

Sophomore Neyda Martinez finished second for the team and earned a 6k personal best of 24:19, improving by almost 20 seconds.

Bakersfield's team time improved by more than three minutes from last years championship race and the team average time dropped by almost 40 seconds.

The team wraps up their final race of the 2022 season.

Quotes from Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Marcia Mansur-Wentworth

" I was really proud of Helena [Valentic] and Neyda [Martinez]. Helena ran a huge personal best. They gave very solid efforts throughout the race, and this is a good foundation because everybody returns next year."
"This is one of the most competitive conferences in the United States. We just hope to continue to improve every year and move up."

CSUB Scoring 5

Full results from the Big West Championships with times and places can be found here

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~GoRunners.com~

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