Hokie ClubGREENSBORO, N.C. – Virginia Tech runner Peter Seufer was named the 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Cross Country Runner of the Year on Tuesday in a vote conducted among the league's cross country head coaches.
Seufer, a redshirt junior from Lynchburg, Virginia, enjoyed a terrific season in which he won the gold medal at the ACC Championships and later earned All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. At the NCAA meet held in Madison, Wisconsin in mid-November, Seufer finished 16th, running the 10K course in a time of 29 minutes, 36.88 seconds.
Seufer's 16th-place finish was the highest finish among ACC runners at the meet and also the second-best finish ever at an NCAA Championships for a Tech men's runner. Steve Taylor came in ninth at the 1987 NCAA meet.
At the ACC Championships in late October, Seufer held off Wake Forest's Zach Facioni in the final few hundred meters at Franklin Park in Boston to win. He became the third Tech runner to win an ACC individual title in cross country and the 11th overall to win a conference crown.
Two weeks after the ACC meet, Seufer earned All-Southeast Region honors by finishing second in the men's 10K race at the NCAA Southeast Regional held in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He nearly won the race, finishing less than a second behind winner James Sugira of Eastern Kentucky.
Seufer finished he finished first or second in four meets and finished in the top five in five meets this fall.
Louisville junior Dorcas Wasike was selected as the 2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Cross Country Runner of the Year. She earned All-America honors for the second consecutive season and won both the ACC and NCAA Southeast Regional crowns.
In addition, Notre Dame first-year head coach Matt Sparks was voted the ACC Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year, while NC State's Laurie Henes was tabbed as the ACC Women's Coach of the Year for the third year in a row and the fourth time overall.