{"id":11049,"date":"2025-10-19T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11049\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:01:39","slug":"kimaru-leads-the-way-at-artruo-barrios-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11049\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimaru leads the way at Artruo Barrios Invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 Freshman runner <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/titus-kimaru\/14062\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14062\" target=\"_blank\">Titus Kimaru<\/a> placed first individually with a personal best 8k time of 22:36.1, Friday morning at the Arturo Barrios Invite.<\/p>\n<p>Full results of today&#8217;s meet can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/flashresults.com\/2026_Meets\/xc\/ArturoBarrios\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kimaru crossed the finish line 16 seconds ahead of the next runner to register his third win of the season. The only time he did not finish first this season was at the Gans Creek Classic where he placed 37th. The freshman paced the men&#8217;s team who finished fifth overall with a scoring of 1-3-36-61-85. Two more Red Raiders capped off their day with PB times \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/victor-kipkoech\/14064\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14064\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Kipkoech<\/a> (3rd, 22:56) and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/daniel-mendez\/13452\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13452\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Mendez<\/a> (85th, 24:38).<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s side was paced by <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/lily-mather\/13451\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13451\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Mather<\/a> who scored a PB 6k time of 20:04 as she placed 17th overall. <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/pauline-wanjiku\/14065\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14065\" target=\"_blank\">Pauline Wanjiku<\/a> finished 32nd with a PB time of 20:39. The women&#8217;s team finished 12trh overall with a 17-32-76-103-125 scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Red Raiders will have next week off before traveling to Lawrence, Kan., for the 2025 Big 12 Cross Country Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013 Freshman runner Titus Kimaru placed first individually with a personal best 8k time of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-11049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}