Pair of Thomas More track standouts earn Athlete of the Week honors from Presidents’ Conference


Thomas More College senior Lucas Nare (Guilford, Ind./Oldenburg Academy) and freshman Christina Cook (Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton) earned weekly honors Tuesday from the the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) office.

Lucas Nare (TMC Athletics Photo)
Lucas Nare (TMC Athletics Photo)

Nare was named the PAC Men’s Track Athlete of the Week after claiming a first-place finish in the 200-meter dash (22.44) at Saturday’s 12th Annual Engineer Invitational, hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Nare also finished third in the 60-meter dash (7.13) and ran the anchor leg on the Saints’ fifth-place 4×200-meter relay (1:33.78) squad.

Cook was named the PAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week. She ran to a pair of individual top-10 finishes at Saturday’s 12th Annual Engineer Invitational. Cook posted a sixth-place finish in the 200-meter dash (27.25) and finished seventh in the 60-meter dash (8.21). Cook was also the anchor of the Saints’ 4-x-200-meter relay that finished third (1:51.00).

The Thomas More men’s and women’s track & field teams return to action on Saturday when they travel to Granville, Ohio, to compete in the Bob Shannon Invitational hosted by Denison University.

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