{"id":423709,"date":"2026-10-09T22:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423709\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:20:36","slug":"four-women-place-in-top-20-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423709\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Women Place in Top 20 in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Florida Atlantic women&#8217;s cross country came within just two points of third place, and had four runners finish in the top 20, in the FSU XC Invitational held Friday morning at Apalachee Regional Park.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor the third straight meet, <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/kate-drummond\/19632\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19632\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Drummond<\/a> was the fastest Owl, placing ninth out of 138 women&#8217;s runners in the 6K with a time of 22:31.7. <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/anabell-reumann\/19626\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19626\" target=\"_blank\">Anabell Reumann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/gaby-castro\/19631\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19631\" target=\"_blank\">Gaby Castro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/madison-brown\/19616\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19616\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Brown<\/a> all finished 20th or better as well.\u00a0For Friday&#8217;s full meet results, click <a href=\"https:\/\/live.pttiming.com\/xc-ptt.html?mid=9210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTEAM FINISHES<br \/>\nFAU women&#8217;s team total was 85 on Friday, with host Florida State&#8217;s 83 placing the Seminoles third. Tampa and Jacksonville State finished 1-2. The FAU men, on an 8K course, had its top five runners place between 51st and 71st, amongst 121 runners.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTOP WOMEN&#8217;S FINISHERS<br \/>\nDrummond&#8217;s ninth-place finish paced the Owls. Next was grad runner <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/anabell-reumann\/19626\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19626\" target=\"_blank\">Anabell Reumann<\/a>, in her first 6K of 2026, crossing in 14th at 22:46.3. In third for the squad was freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/gaby-castro\/19631\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19631\" target=\"_blank\">Gaby Castro<\/a>, 19th at 22:59.3, and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/madison-brown\/19616\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19616\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Brown<\/a> was a spot behind her, 20th in a time of 23:06.6. Setting a PR and finishing as the fifth Owl was freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/evie-lebrun\/19633\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19633\" target=\"_blank\">Evie Lebrun<\/a>, running a 23:13.9.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTOP MEN&#8217;S FINISHERS<br \/>\nLike Drummond, freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/carter-dieterich\/19610\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19610\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Dieterich<\/a> is his side&#8217;s fastest for the third time in as many races, running an 8K time of 27:30.8 on Friday. Just eight seconds behind him was <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/noah-highsmith\/19606\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19606\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Highsmith<\/a> (27:38.0), followed by the trio of <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/timothy-brannon\/19609\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19609\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Brannon<\/a> (28:04.6), <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/noah-curfman\/19604\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19604\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Curfman<\/a> (28:23.6) and <a href=\"https:\/\/fausports.com\/sports\/mens-cross-country\/roster\/joseph-coyle\/19603\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19603\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Coyle<\/a> (28:41.9).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWHAT&#8217;S NEXT<br \/>\nWith the regular season in the books, only the conference and NCAA meets remain: the 2026 American Conference Cross Country Championships, hosted by Tulane at Lake Oaks Park in New Orleans, on Oct. 31, followed by another return trip to Tallahassee and Apalachee Regional Park for the NCAA South Regionals on Nov. 13.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE OWLS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFor complete coverage of FAU cross country and track &amp; field, follow the program on social media @FAUXCTF.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#WIP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Florida Atlantic women&#8217;s cross country came within just two points of third place, and had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-423709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}