2020 GPAC Cross Country Championships
- By James D. Cimburek james.cimburek@yankton.net
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Select photos from the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Nov. 7, 2020, at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Photos include shots of top 15 individuals in each race, as well as the majority of the Mount Marty runners.

Dordt's Taylor Anema (96) and Eden Winslow (108) race toward the final of the women's race in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Anema and Winslow finished first and second, helping Dordt to the team title.
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Doane's Shawn Kiptoo pulls away to the early lead in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Kiptoo won the men's race by 25 seconds, but Dordt put seven runners in the top 14 to win the team title.
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Dakota Wesleyan's Justin Sorensen (left), a sophomore from Vermillion, tries to hold off Hastings' Aaron Ochsner near the finish of the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Sorensen finished 48th, with Ochsner 49th.
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Mount Marty's Cristobal Gonzalez battles Jamestown's Andrew Hornung down the stretch in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Gonzalez finished 74th, with Hornung 75th.
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Dordt's Jebadiah Merkel, left, and Mount Marty's Brian Santiago battle down the stretch in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Merkel finished 12th, with Santiago 13th.
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Doane's Jaci Parriott, left, Midland's Madilynn Edwards and Dordt's Bethany Ten Haken race toward the finish in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Edwards claimed 13th, with Parriott 14th and Ten Haken 15th.
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Hastings' Veronica Pinkerton, 132, pulls away from Northwestern's Hunter Koepke, 215, to place 10th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Kelsey Folchert, center (191), and Tayler Carlson (189) try to get out with the pack during the start of the women's race in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Leighton Mlady, left, pulls away from a trio of Dakota Wesleyan runners to place 73rd in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. DWU runners pictured include Savannah Schmidt (58), Annika Vermeulen (60) and Macey Bohl, right.
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Mount Marty's Gracie Rippen, 196, battles Concordia's Grace Reiman down the stretch in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Reiman finished 71st, with Rippen 72nd.
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Dordt's Taylor Anema (96) and Eden Winslow (108) race toward the final of the women's race in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Anema and Winslow finished first and second, helping Dordt to the team title.
- James D. Cimburek/P&D
Doane's Shawn Kiptoo pulls away to the early lead in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Kiptoo won the men's race by 25 seconds, but Dordt put seven runners in the top 14 to win the team title.
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Doane's Shawn Kiptoo won the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Joe Anderson finished seventh in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Brooks DeWaard finished 14th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Franklin Reinders finished sixth in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Thaniel Schroeder finished 22nd in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Eric Steiger finished eighth in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Davis Tebben finished second in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dakota Wesleyan's Justin Sorensen competes in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dakota Wesleyan's Justin Sorensen (left), a sophomore from Vermillion, tries to hold off Hastings' Aaron Ochsner near the finish of the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Sorensen finished 48th, with Ochsner 49th.
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Midland's Alex France finished 25th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Midland's Jose Gonzalez finished third in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Lukas Blankman finished 80th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Brayden Effle finished 72nd in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Alfonso Erickson finished 81st in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Cristobal Gonzalez battles Jamestown's Andrew Hornung down the stretch in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Gonzalez finished 74th, with Hornung 75th.
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Mount Marty's Caden Ideker, 203, runs with Morningside's Camden Beller (181) during the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Caden Ideker finished 53rd in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Brian Santiago, 206, leads a group of runners up a hill during the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Jebadiah Merkel, left, and Mount Marty's Brian Santiago battle down the stretch in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Merkel finished 12th, with Santiago 13th.
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Mount Marty's Brian Santiago finished 13th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Mason Schlunsen finished 58th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Cristobal Gonzalez (202), Mason Schlunsen (207) and Liam Vidas (208) compete in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Liam Vidas finished 60th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Seth Wiebelhaus competes in the men's face of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Seth Wiebelhaus finished 65th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Morningside' Connor Ritz finished fourth in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Morningside's Mason Welker, a freshman from Yankton, finished 47th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Northwestern's Dylan Hendricks, 223, finished fifth in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Northwestern's Joshua Starr finished 15th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Northwestern's Jakob VanDerWerff, 231, and Leviticus Cross placed ninth and 10th in the men's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Doane's Jaci Parriott, left, Midland's Madilynn Edwards and Dordt's Bethany Ten Haken race toward the finish in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Edwards claimed 13th, with Parriott 14th and Ten Haken 15th.
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Dordt's Jordan DeGroot finished fourth in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Jessica Kampman finished fourth in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Dordt's Eden Winslow finished second in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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A group of runners stays packed together near the 1,000-meter mark of the women's race in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Hastings' Sam Crossett finished seventh in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Hastings' Madison Gerken finished ninth in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Hastings' Veronica Pinkerton, 132, pulls away from Northwestern's Hunter Koepke, 215, to place 10th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Tayler Carlson, right, pulls past Hastings' Cody Selvage to place 68th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Kelsey Folchert, center (191), and Tayler Carlson (189) try to get out with the pack during the start of the women's race in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Kelsey Folchert (191) runs with a pack near the 1,000-meter mark of the women's race in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Kelsey Folchert finished 45th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Sadie Lapointe competes in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Sadie Lapointe finished 83rd in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Jaclyn Laprath finished 64th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Jaclyn Laprath finished 64th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Leighton Mlady competes in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Mount Marty's Leighton Mlady, left, pulls away from a trio of Dakota Wesleyan runners to place 73rd in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. DWU runners pictured include Savannah Schmidt (58), Annika Vermeulen (60) and Macey Bohl, right.
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Mount Marty's Gracie Rippen, 196, battles Concordia's Grace Reiman down the stretch in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course. Reiman finished 71st, with Rippen 72nd.
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Mount Marty's Gracie Rippen finished 72nd in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Morningside's Emalee Funderman finished sixth in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Morningside's Kristine Honomichl finished third in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Northwestern's Anna Hiebner finished eighth in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Northwestern's Hunter Koepke finished 11th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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Northwestern's Autumn Muilenburg, 216, pulls away from a trio of runners to place 12th in the women's race of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships, Saturday at Yankton's Fox Run Golf Course.
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