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EAST LANSING, Michigan -- John Carroll University senior Alex Phillip beat the cold and the snow at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships on Saturday.
Phillip won for the second year in a row on a blustery day at the Forest Akers East Golf Course.
He topped the 294-runner field, covering the men's 8K course in 24 minutes, 37.6 seconds.
Phillip is a two-time Ohio Athletic Conference champion and was third at the 2018 Ohio Division II state cross country meet as a senior at Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.
John Carroll finished fourth in the team standings for a second straight year with 186 points. Massachusetts Institute of Technology won with 82 points.
Case Western was 28th with 660 points, Otterbein was 29th with 757 points. and Mount Union was 31st with 780 points.
Mount Union senior Jeff Joseph, who was a state qualifier at West Branch High School, was the Purple Raiders' third runner in 252nd place (27:09.8).
In the women's race, Mount Union was 28th with 711 points.
Johns Hopkins (Md.) won with 144 points followed by Chicago with 147. John Carroll was 19th with 462 points and Carnegie Mellon was 30th with 742 points.
Loras (Iowa) College senior Kassie Parker repeated as the women's winner. She topped the 293-runner field with a time of 21 minutes, 6.5 seconds on the 6K course.
She started out as a volleyball player and didn't start running until her sophomore year of high school.