THE SIDELINES : Iowa State First in NCAA Races

John Nuttall and Jonah Koech of Iowa State finished first and second today to lead the Cyclones to the NCAA Men’s Cross Country Championship at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Villanova’s Vicki Huber won the women’s title, breaking Indiana’s two-year hold on the individual crown and leading the Wildcats to their first team championship. Huber covered the women’s five meter (3.1 mile) course in 15:59.86, the fastest time in the nine years of women’s competition.

Nuttall, a senior from Preston, England, covered the 10,000 meter (6.2 mile) course in 29:30.55. Koech, a native of Kenya who makes his home in Albuquerque, N.M., took second in 29:32.69.