Highland Hills, Ohio - Trinity junior Caitlin Masse finished eighth at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships on Saturday morning, earning All-America honors in the process.

Masse, from Katy, Texas (Cinco Ranch), finished with a time of 22:21.7 at the 6k national event, held at the Highland Hills Golf Club. She became the second-ever Trinity cross country runner to be named an All-American.

It marked the best-ever finish by a Trinity Tiger cross country runner, male or female, in NCAA competition, besting last year's 17th-place run by 2008 All-American Emily Loeffler.

Masse qualified for nationals by capturing the NCAA South/Southeast Regional last Saturday, with a time of 22:56 at Greensboro, N.C. She also picked up USTFCCCA Regional Women's Athlete of the Year honors following her course-breaking time on the Guilford College route.

In Saturday's NCAA men's 8k race, senior Bryant Wright of Tulsa, Okla. (Holland Hall), completed the event in 28:08.3 placing 246. Wright finished seventh at the Regional, clocking in at 27:21  - one second behind the sixth-place runner - and earned All-Region recognition. He competed in his second straight NCAA Championships meet.

Full results for both the men's and women's races are available online.

The Tiger men and women are coached by Jenny Breuer, who guided her women's team to a sixth-place finish at the 2008 NCAA Championships.