Midwestern State's Sydnee Cole and Abilene Christian's Amos Sang were chosen as the 2009 Lone Star Conference Cross Country Runners of the Year.  The awards were announced Friday following a vote of the league's head coaches.

   The Mustangs Cole was the female winner, while the Wildcats Sang claimed male honors.

   Cole, a junior from Phillipsburg, Kan., claimed the school's first LSC individual championship with a time of 23:02.5, helping the Mustangs to their second-straight team title.  She placed 15th at the NCAA Division II South Central Regional as she completed the looped six-kilometer course in 22:34.62. 

   Sang, who won the LSC and regional individual titles, finished fourth at the NCAA Division II National Championships, running the ten-kilometer course in 30:48.0 for All-American acclaim.  The junior from Eldoret, Kenya, topped the field at the NCAA Division II South Central Regional in 29:53.23, more than a minute ahead of his nearest challenger and claimed the conference title with a time of 24:44 on the eight-kilometer course.