FOREST, Va. – The Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) released its slate of weekly cross country awards for the week of Sept. 22-28 on Tuesday afternoon. Erin Loker, a junior from Harrisonburg, has been named the ODAC Women's Runner of the Week for the second time this fall, per a release on the ODAC website.

Loker and the women's cross country team ran in the JMU Invitational 5k (3.1 miles) on Friday, Sept. 25, placing third as a squad. Loker stood out individually with her seventh-place finish, first among Division III runners in the meet. For the season, Loker currently sits eighth in the ODAC for the 6k (3.73 miles) with a season-best time of 24:01.3, and she is second in the conference for 5k in a time of 19:48.9.

EMU Cross Country will hit the course again this Friday, Oct. 2, when the men's team competes at the Richmond Invitational at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, Va. The men's 8k is scheduled to go off at 9:08 a.m. Loker and the rest of the women's team will return to competition alongside the men at the Roanoke South Region Showdown, taking place on Saturday, Oct. 17, at Green Hill Park in Salem, Va.

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