Sederquist Earns MIAC Weekly Honor

MOORHEAD, Minn. (10/10/11)--Concordia senior Tom Sederquist (Moorhead, Minn.) was named the MIAC Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Week it was announced on Monday by the league office. Sederquist earns the award after winning the UMD Pine Hill Invite on Saturday.

For Sederquist it is the fifth time in his career that he has earned the weekly award. He won it on three different occasions last year and once in his freshman season in 2008.

Sederquist has been one of the MIAC's top cross country runners throughout his career, but he proved even more than that Saturday with his performance at the Pine Hill Cross Country Invite hosted by the University of Minnesota Duluth. Sederquist was sensational, showing that he's one of the top distance runners in Minnesota regardless of division as he finished first in a field loaded with Division II and III talent. In the process, he helped Concordia finish second as a team. 

Sederquist completed the 8K course in just 25:30 Saturday for his first-place finish. He enjoyed an 18-second win over the runner-up, teammate Tanner Sakrismo, and outran the rest of the field by more than 1:20. Sederquist's mile pace was 5:07 and he helped Concordia finish with a team score of 45, just two points behind first-place Winona State and three points ahead of the host school, UMD.

Next weekend Concordia will send runners to the Jimmie Invitational on Friday and the UW-Oshkosh Brooks Invite on Saturday as their final tune-ups before the 2011 MIAC Cross Country Championships. The conference meet will be held Saturday, Oct. 29, at Como Park Golf Course in St. Paul.