ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association released its weekly awards for the opening week of the 2025 women's cross country season and Centre's Gracie West was named Women's Runner of the Week for meets held through Aug. 31.

West had a fantastic senior cross country season debut this past weekend at the BC/CC Jamboree hosted on the Berea College Cross Country Course.

It was a literal race to the finish for the win in the last 100 meters for West and three other competitors as the Centre senior finished in a close fourth place overall with a new cross country personal best 5K time of 18:58. West helped lead the Centre women to a second place team finish behind NAIA powerhouse University of the Cumberlands.

Centre women's cross country will return to action on Sept. 6 with the Grizzly Invitational at Franklin.