The Dominican University men's and women's cross country teams competed at the 2019 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) Championships on Saturday at Greenfield Park in West Allis, Wisconsin.  The women raced to a seventh-place finish out of 12 teams thanks in large part to junior Mary Eterno who collected All-NACC First Team honors with a 12^th-place finish in the field of 103 runners.
 
Eterno covered the wet, muddy and snow-covered course in a time of 26:59.32, just ninety seconds behind MSOE's Rachel Ruona who placed third individually.  Eterno becomes Dominican's first all-conference honoree in women's cross country since Michelle Hall placed 12^th as a senior at the 2013 NACC Championships.
 
Nicole Grondin, also a junior, narrowly missed out on earning All-NACC honors, placing 19^th overall with a time of 27:37.97, just 23 seconds behind Edgewood's Rachel Ehrhart who claimed the final all-conference spot with a time of 27:14.86.
 
Freshman Khava Morris (28:33.30, 39^th), junior Evelyn Gutierrez (29:09.52, 45^th) and freshman Abby Hosek (30:15.75, 54^th) rounded out the Stars' top five scorers.
 
In the men's race, freshman Fernando Gonzalez paced the Stars to a 10^th place finish out of ten NACC teams.  Gonzalez covered the men's 8k course in a time of 30:45.01, placing 34^th out of the field of 77 runners.