GSC Cross Country All-Decade Team
SEARCY – Harding women's cross country placed eight runners on the Gulf South Conference All-Decade Team and produced the GSC Runner of the Decade in Janet Kogo and the GSC Coach of the Decade in Steve Guymon. The Lady Bisons also placed another member on the 2nd Team.
Kogo collected plenty of hardware from 2000-03, running for two GSC and NCAA South Region Individual Titles. She also earned All-GSC and All-Region First Team honors all four seasons on her way to two All-American times at the NCAA Championships. Kogo's most distinguished honor came this year when she was inducted into the NCAA DII Cross Country and Track & Field Hall of Fame.
Guymon recorded his second GSC Coach of the Decade after also garnering the men's honor. Guymon won six GSC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year laurels the past 10 years, led by five consecutive GSC Titles from 2005-09. He has also guided the Lady Bisons to two NCAA Regional Championships and four Top 10 efforts at the NCAA Title Meet.
Harding is the top Team of the Decade totaling 153 out of a possible 155 All-Sports Trophy points the past 10 seasons. The Lady Bisons claimed eight Conference Crowns, while finishing second at the 2003 and 2004 GSC meets.
Also on the All-Decade 1st Team were Katy Grant, Janee Jones, Kalina Szteyn, Hanna Haavikko, Savita Chelimo, Vicky Echeverria and Helen Singoei. Rysper Sirma was a 2nd Team honoree.
Grant (2006-09) was a four-time All-GSC honoree and won the 2009 individual championship. Jones (2005-07) won the GSC individual championship in 2006 and 2007. Szteyn (2004-07) won the GSC individual title as a freshman in 2004.
Haavikko (2000-02) won the GSC championship in 2000 and 2001 and earned three All-GSC honors. Chelimo (2004-06) and Echeverria (2003-06) were both three-time All-GSC. Singoei (2001-04) earned two 1st Team All-GSC honors and was the 2004 regional champion.
Sirma, who will be a senior on the 2010 team, has earned 1st Team All-GSC honors each of her first three years.
