Snyder Named Big Ten Cross Country Athlete of the Week

PARK RIDGE, Ill. -- University of Michigan senior All-American Todd Snyder (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer HS) earned Big Ten Conference men's cross country Athlete of the Week honors, the league office announced Wednesday (Oct. 7). It marks the first such honors of his career for Snyder, who won the 8,000-meter Paul Short Run at Lehigh University last Saturday (Oct. 3) in course-record time (22:44.15) to lead the Wolverines to a share of the team championship.

Snyder earned All-America and All-Big Ten Second-Team honors as a junior in 1997. Michigan's No. 2 runner this year, Snyder also ran at the Mountain West Classic in Missoula, Mont. (Sept. 26). He finished seventh there, helping Michigan to a runnerup team finish.

Currently ranked sixth in the country, Michigan heads for Orono, Maine, to defend its title at the Murray Keatinge Invitational on Saturday (Oct. 10).