Nov. 14, 2007

For the fourth time this season, Stephen Samoei has been named the Conference USA Cross Country Athlete of the Week.

Samoei led the Miners to a second place finish at the NCAA Mountain Region Meet in Ogden, Utah Saturday for an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship, placing second in the 10K race with a time of 30:14.3.

Samoei, a senior from Eldoret, Kenya, won the individual title at the C-USA Championship Meet earlier this season and was the lone qualifier for the NCAA Championship Meet in 2006.