Parker Valby Earns SEC Women’s Runner of the Week Honors
Parker Valby’s performance at the Arturo Barrios Invite earns her SEC Women’s Runner of the Week Honors
GAINESVILLE, Fla.- Florida Redshirt Sophomore Parker Valby was named the Southeastern Conference’s Women’s Runner of the Week, the conference announced on Tuesday. This is her first SEC Women’s Runner of the Week honor. She previously won the 2021 SEC Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year.
Valby earned this honor after her first-place finish at the Arturo Barrios Invite in College Station, Texas, this past Saturday. She crossed the finish line first out of 326 competitors with a time of 18:58.2 and helped the Gators to a third-place team finish.
Her time improves upon her previous best of 19:41.38 (2021 NCAA South Regional) by 43.18 seconds. This new best time gives Valby the second fastest 6k in Florida history, only 3.22 seconds behind the school record. Valby’s time at the Arturo Barrios Invite would have placed first at the 2021 Women’s National Championship by 27.1 seconds.
The Gators are scheduled to travel to the SEC Cross Country Championships on Oct. 28 in Oxford, Miss. to compete in the conference championships.
