CHESTER, Pa. - As March comes to a close, Widener Athletics wraps up the Women's History Month Spotlight with the 2022 Women's Cross Country Team. 

With the outdoor track and field season being kicked off this afternoon with the Danny Curran Invitational, the running was in the atmosphere. Women's Cross Country distance runner Kathryn Long would highlight day one of the meet and would be a future of the program.

Flashback to the 2022 season, the Women's Cross Country team of 2022 would become the first team in Widener history to win a Middle Atlantic Conference Championships title, advance and win NCAA Metro Regionals, and make a team appearance at the 2022 NCAA Cross Country Championships. That season the Pride would see key races from Gabby Nye, Carly Gable, Katelyn Bernotas, Emily Cooney, and Jaden Sweely all featured All-Conference marks. The Regional Championship would be the ticket punch for the Pride to the NCAA Championships as Nye took first overall and a fourth from Bernotas. The Pride went on to snowy Lansing, Mich. for the first team in school history to ever make a trip to an NCAA Championship as a team. 

The Pride season would be capped off with USTFCCCA All-Region awards for Nye as Runner of the Year, a Coach of the Year award, and a MAC Senior Scholar Athlete award for Gable.

To read about the history NCAA Championship, click here.