Women's Cross Country wins 7th OAC title; Six ONU runners earn All-Conference honors

Women's Cross Country wins 7th OAC title; Six ONU runners earn All-Conference honors
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November 1, 2025

WESTERVILLE — The Ohio Northern women's cross country team won the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships title and had six runners earn All-Conference honors on Saturday afternoon.

The Basics

  • Record: Ohio Northern (54-6 Overall).
  • Race Info: The event was a 6,000-meter race held at the Lehman Cross Country Course at Otterbein.

Race Results

  • Ohio Northern finished 1st out of 9 teams with 31 points, winning the OAC Championships title for the seventh time in school history.
  • Otterbien placed second with 45 points, Mount Union placed third with 56 points, Baldwin Wallace placed fourth with 120 points and Heidelberg placed fifth with 152 points.

Top ONU Performers

  • The top six Ohio Northern runners all earned All-Conference honors with their top-20 finishes.
  • Senior Natalie Armbruster (Cincinnati/Mount Notre Dame) led ONU across the finish line, placing 2nd overall of 105 runners in 22.26.
  • Junior AnnaSophia Gower (Perrysburg) was 5th in 22.40.1.
  • Senior Samantha Roth (Brunswick) was 6th in 22.40.6.
  • Freshman Allison Woodruff (Arlington/Riverdale) was 7th in 22.57.
  • Freshman Laura Tanner (Wayne/Elmwood) was 11th in 23.14.
  • Senior Dani Widmark (Zanesfield/Ben Logan) was 14th in 23:20.

Notables

  • Armbruster had a huge career best of 22.26, shaving 22 seconds off of her previous best of 22.48.
  • Armburster placed second earning All OAC honors.
  • Woodruff beat her previous best by 15 seconds.
  • Tanner ran a new personal best beating her previous time by 0.7 seconds.
  • Ohio Northern finished with 4 top 10 runners making them 1st Team All OAC Honorees.
  • Ohio Northern had 2 runners as Second Team All-OAC Honorees
  • Ohio Northern had two freshman runners finish as a top 5 runner on the team.
  • This was ONU's sixth consecutive upper division OAC finish.
  • 17th-year head coach Jason Maus is now 1,451-532 as head coach of the ONU women's cross country program and is the winningest coach in program history.

Up Next

  • The Polar Bears will return to action on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the NCAA III Great Lakes Regional Championships in Lousiville, Ky.