Longwood junior Gracie Piekarski capped her breakthrough junior season with a 51st-place finish at the ECAC/IC4A University Division Cross Country Championship.

Piekarski’s performance was the second highest finish at the IC4A by a Lancer men’s or women’s runner in the Division I era, trailing only all-time 5K record holder Alisha Royal’s seventh-place effort in 2011. The Lancer ace clocked a 19:30.2 on the 5K course to finish inside the top third of the 163-runner field.

“I think racing continuously for the first four weeks, all things considered, Gracie ran a great race today,” said head coach Catherine Hanson, who wrapped up her ninth season leading the Lancer cross country program Saturday.

Piekarski, who was Longwood’s top finisher at every race in 2015, was Longwood’s lone representative from the women’s team, while senior Russell Reed represented the men’s program with a 128th finish.

Reed posted a 28:46.0 in his final race to punctuate a five-year career in which he set the school’s 5K record, clocked two top-10 8K times and another top-10 10K finish.