Edmond Santa Fe’s Natalie Duggan is Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of Year
Edmond Santa Fe’s Duggan named Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year
Edmond Santa Fe’s Natalie Duggan was named the 2023 Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year on Monday.
A junior, Duggan placed second at the Class 6A state meet last fall as she completed the five-kilometer race in 17:35.32.
She later won the Oklahoma Meet of Champions in 17:55.49 and placed 15th at the Nike Cross South Regional Championships with a time of 17:52.7. Duggan also placed 30th in the Gold Race at the national RunningLane Cross Country Championships in Alabama.
Duggan has been one of the best high school runners in the OKC metro since she was a freshman, being named to The Oklahoman's All-City girls cross country first team each season.
She is the first Edmond Santa Fe athlete to be named the Gatorade Oklahoma Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Report: Ex-Cowboys QB Gunnar Gundy re-enters transfer portal
Gunnar Gundy, the son of Oklahoma State football head coach Mike Gundy, re-entered the transfer portal on Tuesday, according a report from 247Sports.
After spending the first three years of his career under his father at OSU, the redshirt sophomore quarterback entered the transfer portal on Dec. 6. He then committed to Ohio on Jan. 5.
Gundy appeared in nine games during his three seasons with the Cowboys. He threw for 449 yards and four touchdowns with four interceptions.
This past season, Gundy threw for 202 yards and one touchdown with no interceptions. He also ran for a 10-yard touchdown during OSU's 31-23 win over Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl on Dec. 27.
Extra points
NBA: The Milwaukee Bucks fired coach Adrian Griffin after just 43 games despite having one of the league’s top records midway through his first season. Milwaukee is 30-13 to tie the Minnesota Timberwolves for the league’s second-best record. The Bucks are 3 1/2 games behind the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference. But the dip in Milwaukee’s defensive performance had raised concerns about the Bucks’ viability as a championship contender. Milwaukee had given Griffin his first head coaching job this summer after firing Mike Budenholzer. Joe Prunty, who had been an assistant coach on Griffin’s staff, will serve as the Bucks’ interim head coach.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL: OU was voted unanimously as the No. 1 team in the preseason ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll, which was released Tuesday. The three-time defending NCAA champion Sooners are one of four Big 12 teams in the Top 25, including No. 5 Texas, No. 11 Oklahoma State and No. 19 Baylor. OU will enter the 2024 season with an NCAA-record 53-game winning streak when the Sooners face Utah Valley on Feb. 8 in the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL: OSU kicker Alex Hale was named to the College Sports Communicators' 2023 Academic All-America first team. Hale was the Cowboys' 24th selection to the team in program history and first since Britton Abbott in 2018.
COLLEGE WRESTLING: OSU's Dustin Plott was named the Big 12 Wrestler of the Week after a big win over No. 4-ranked Trey Munoz of Oregon State on Sunday. Plott won the match with a 4-2 decision and has two wins over top-five opponents this month. The 184-pound senior is 18-1 this season.
COLLEGE GYMNASTICS: OU redshirt sophomore Fuzzy Benas was named the MPSF Gymnast of the Week, sophomore and Jenks graduate Ignacio Yockers was named the specialist of the week and Colin Flores was named the freshman of the week, sweeping the weekly awards after winning the Rocky Mountain Open.
COLLEGE TENNIS: OSU's Lucia Peyre was named the Big 12 Player of the Week after she went 2-0 in the No. 3 spot for the Cowgirls in wins over No. 4 Michigan and No. 14 Ohio State last weekend. The win over Michigan was OSU's highest-ranked win since beating No. 3 Florida in 2018.
—Staff and wire reports
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