Joe Freiburger Award Runner of the Week (Men) Week Of 10/26/2020 Sport Cross Country School Wartburg College Year Senior Position Hometown Holy Cross, Iowa High School Western Dubuque Male Athlete of the Week – Men’s Cross Country – Runner of the Week Joe Freiburger, Wartburg College Sr., Holy Cross, Iowa/Western Dubuque For the fourth consecutive race, Freiburger picked up the victory, this time at the Wartburg Triangular against 71 other runners from Buena Vista and Loras. His time helped guide the Knights to another first-place team finish with 18 points. He shattered his own Wartburg course record with a time of 24:32, a time that sits third best all-time in Wartburg men’s cross country history. This is the senior’s eighth career Runner of the Week mark (11/3/19, 10/21/19, 9/23/19, 9/9/19, 9/14/20, 9/28/20, 10/13/20, 10/26/20). Freiburger was the 2019 A-R-C Champion and finished 22nd at last year’s NCAA Championships.
