The University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s Jessica Lamp (Powers Lake, Wis.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week. Lamp, a junior runner for the Rangers, posted the second fastest time ever run by a UW-Parkside women’s cross country runner on the UW-P Wayne E. Dannehl National Cross Country Course on Saturday.

Her efforts helped the Rangers to a second-place finish at the 21-team Midwest Open. UW-Parkside tallied 74 points to finish just behind event-winner Marquette University who had a final score of 42.

Lamp finished third overall in a time of 17:40 on the 5,000-meter course. Of the 263 runners competing, Lamp was one of just six runners to post a sub-18 minute time.

She broke her previous personal best on the course by more than 50 seconds and is just the third UW-Parkside runner to finish the course in under 18 minutes. The Rangers’ record on the course is held by Michelle Marter-Rohl who posted a time of 17:32 at the 1987 NAIA National Championship Meet.

Teammate Naomi Fulton also ran the course under 18 minutes on Saturday in a time of 17:45 to place sixth overall.

Lamp and the tenth-ranked Rangers will return to action at the Augustana Invite on Friday.

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Bellarmine’s Katie Hickey, Northern Kentucky’s Julianne Hoekzema, SIU Edwardsville’s Kayla Brown and Southern Indiana’s Mary Ballinger.