Aikens Finishes The Nationals Race First in SSAC
November 21, 2012
The NAIA National Meet was held on Saturday, November 17, in Vancouver, Wash.
This year, nine teams from the Southern States Athletic Conference qualified eighteen of their conference runners to the National meet including Brenau's own Brittany Aikens of Braselton, Ga.
The runners took to the starting line at 10:30 a.m. PST awaiting the sounding of the cannon for the start of the race.
The weather conditions were tough, just what one would expect in Oregon in November: cold and rainy. But that did not stop Aikens in achieving her goal for this year's National meet of getting another personal record.
Aikens sloshed her way through the muck and mud to finish first among the SSAC runners. She crossed the line in 19:35 and finished in 109th place out of 320 runners. This was Aikens' second trip to the National meet and she was able to improve on her time by a minute.