2022 UC Riverside Invitational Results

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – While some Urban Knights made their Academy of Art cross country debuts Saturday morning, there were eight significantly lower times from the year's first race to emerge out of each squad's top five at the UC Riverside Invitational through the UCR Ag Ops Course. Freshman Lisa Redlinger ran the seventh-fastest 6k in ART U history to lead the 25th-place women while graduate student Sebastian Rivera Del Hierro and senior Hudson Lockette were out in front for the men's team who took 29th overall.

In a 6k race that featured over 264 runners and more than 20 NCAA Division I institutions, Redlinger was already out in front for Academy of Art by the first 2k checkpoint while a trio of her teammates were together in a pack roughly 15 spots behind. The Interaction & UI/UX Design major would briefly move up five spots past the competition's halfway mark then finished 86th overall (82nd among runners counting toward their respective team scores) with an impressive time of 21:48.7. The mark was nearly a full minute improvement from her collegiate debut race two weeks ago and put her seventh in program history among the fastest 6k times.

Redshirt senior Audrey Rosencrans brought her team 126 points with a 137th place finish, taking more than 50 seconds off her 2022 debut time with a 22:17.8 mark (less than five seconds from her career-best) on Saturday. Moving up 11 spots in the final 2k, junior Delanie Dykes rose to 141st overall (130 as a counter for the Knights) while better her USF Invite mark by 30 seconds at 22:19.4. Completing ART U's top five were sophomore Lina Hanich in 179th overall (158 toward the team score), improving upon her initial mark by more than a minute at 22:36.6 and sophomore Michaela Andrews who debuted at 23:08.7 in 209th (179 toward the team score).

As a team, ART U (675) finished 25th overall as the third NCAA Division II program competing back of Biola (289) and Concordia (377) both inside the day's top 15. The top team finish was extremely close as Arizona (140) took first by one point over Cal Poly (141) while the race's individual winner was Ryley Fick (20:07.5) from Long Beach State.

On the men's side, Rivera Del Hierro paced Academy of Art through the 8k race, battling over 265 runners and more than 18 NCAA DI institutions. He opened inside the top 100 through the first 2k, but would steadily drop back before crossing the finish line in 179th overall (147 among runners counting toward their respective team scores) with a time of 25:47.0 in his first race as an Urban Knight.

While freshman Conrad Heinemann held the second position for ART U through the first 4k plus, it was Lockette who worked his way up, passing five others over the final 1.5k to end at 26:11.0. It was more than 40 seconds better than his 2022 debut and earned him 213rd individually (167 toward the team score). Heinemann took almost 40 seconds off his first collegiate performance, going 26:30.2 for 224th (175 toward the team score) while freshman Vaughn Lacour improved by close to 24 seconds at 26:58.5 to put him 243rd (190 toward the team score). Redshirt freshman Jaden Singleton took a big step forward, coming down over a minute and 20 seconds from two weeks prior at 27:29.9 in 252nd (196 toward the team score).

The ART U men's team (888) claimed 29th overall, third among NCAA DII competitors with Biola (289) and CUI (377) once again both among the top 15. Cal Poly (59) finished first by a considerable margin though Arizona State's Vincent Mauri (23:25.7) was the individual winner.

Academy of Art will next travel to Illinois for the Lewis Crossover set to take place the morning of Oct. 8.