Buttry, a junior, won her second straight Iowa Conference Cross Country Championship and earned her second straight IIAC Most Valuable Runner honor. She finished the 5,000-meter race in 16:37, less than two seconds off the Conference record she set in 2002. Buttry defeated the second place finisher – Luther College’s Natalie Retrum - by 2:04 and led Wartburg to a second place finish, six points behind champion Luther.
