KJCCC Cross Country Runners Sweep NJCAA Division 1 Cross Country Runner of the Week Awards

CHARLOTTE, NC – For the second straight week, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Cross Country Runners of the Week have been named NJCAA Division 1 Cross Country Runners of the Week with Meryeme Mai of Garden City and Kabelo Maja of Fort Hays Tech Northwest both earning Week 4 honors.

Meryeme Mai – Garden City (NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week)
Mai finished fourth in the 5K with a time of 18:39.30, the top time on a 5K course this week by a KJCCC athlete while helping the Lady Broncbusters to a second-place team finish at the Fort Hays State Tiger Open on Friday morning. Only one other KJCCC runner finished in the top 10 of the meet with Mai’s time a full 45 seconds faster than any other KJCCC runner this week in either of the two meets that the conference had runners compete in. Mai joins Cloud County’s N Vanee Anchike who was NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week during week three of the season.

Kabelo Maja - Fort Hays Tech Northwest (NJCAA Division 1 Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week) Maja topped the 49-runner field at the Fort Hays State Tiger Open on Friday morning by setting a course record by finishing the four-mile course in a time of 19:57.20, the only runner to run under 20 minutes. Only one other runner from the KJCCC finished in the top five of the meet as Fort Hays Tech Northwest finished second in the team scoring behind only host Fort Hays State University. Maja follows Sibonelo Khumalo of Colby who was last week’s NJCAA Division I Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week.