Pease and Hardacre Earn Big Ten Sportsmanship Awards

Freshman Cole Hardacre was honored as a Big Ten Sportsmanship honoree by the league office.

Pease and Hardacre Earn Big Ten Sportsmanship Awards

10/31/2007 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country

Oct. 31, 2007

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Freshman Cole Hardacre and sophomore Sarah Pease were selected as Big Ten Sportsmanship honorees for cross country, the league office announced on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

Hardacre earned Second Team All-Big Ten honors after placing 14th at the 2007 Big Ten Championships on Oct. 28. He boasted a personal-best time of 24:13.74 in the 8K championships.

Pease clocked a personal-best time of 21:07.86 in the women's 6K championship race to place 32nd overall.

Hardacre and Pease were two of the 21 cross country student-athletes that are now candidates for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. The conference office will honor one male and one female student-athlete from each institution at the end of the academic year.