{"id":297035,"date":"2025-11-21T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=297035"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:04:26","slug":"vcsu-barrera-finishes-73rd-at-national-xc-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=297035","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Barrera Finishes 73rd at National XC Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vcsu-wxc112125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vcsu-wxc112125.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-297036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vcsu-wxc112125.jpg 600w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vcsu-wxc112125-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/vcsu-wxc112125-264x175.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tallahasse FL (Valley City State) &#8211; Valley City State&#8217;s\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/womens-cross-country\/roster\/frida-barrera\/4926\">Frida Barrera<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0competed in her first National Cross Country Championships Friday at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The freshman placed 73<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;out of 331 runners in the race, finishing in a time of 22:38.3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head Coach Laquone Robinson said &#8220;Today was truly special the best finish in school history at a national meet for a 6k race. Frida split an 18:49 through 5k, just three seconds off her PR&nbsp;<em>during<\/em>&nbsp;the race. Her goal was to crack the top 100, and she went out and finished&nbsp;<strong>73rd<\/strong>, far surpassing expectations after coming in ranked 124th. Huge step forward for her, and definitely a sign of great things to come!&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/live.pttiming.com\/xc-ptt.html?mid=8268\">National Meet Results<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrera a great start to her Viking career in 2025. She competed in six races with three top five finishes, including a third-place finish at the Frontier Conference Championships to earn All-Conference status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her 22:28.9 at the conference meet was 1.1 seconds off the school record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahasse FL (Valley City State) &#8211; Valley City State&#8217;s\u00a0Frida Barrera\u00a0competed in her first National Cross Country Championships Friday at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida. The freshman placed 73rd&nbsp;out of 331 runners in the race, finishing in a time of 22:38.3.&nbsp; Head Coach Laquone Robinson said &#8220;Today was truly special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":297036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297038,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297035\/revisions\/297038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}