University of South Alabama Athletics

Labuschaigne won the women’s 5K with a season-best time of 17:35.1 last weekend at the Sun Belt Cross Country Championships.  With the win, Labuschaigne became the first South women’s cross country runner to claim the league title in 20 years as Laura Martin (1997) was the last to do so.  The Durbanville, Western Cape, South Africa, native is also just the third South women’s runner to win a conference individual title in program history.  It was the junior’s third individual title this fall and she has now placed inside the top 30 in eight of her last nine races dating back to last season.  The title also earned Labuschaigne all-conference honors for the third time in as many years and first-team accolades for the second-straight year.  As a team, the Jaguar women placed third at the league championship event with 91 points.