WXC CCS Championship 2022

Season Preview: Women's Cross Country

By Davis Barlow: Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

The defending CCS Champions return for the 2023 season looking to go back-to-back. The Lady Lions begin their season on Friday, September 1 as they travel to the Young Harris XC Opener.

Jaycie Ponce NCAA
Jaycie Ponce
  • Five regular season events highlight the schedule for the Lady Lions before Piedmont is set to host the CCS Championships at the end of the season.
  • Piedmont opens their season at Young Harris before traveling to Milledgeville to compete at the GMC Brickyard Invitational the following week.
  • Staying close to home, the squad will compete at the UNG Invitational in Oakwood, Ga. on Friday, September 15.
  • Piedmont University will host the 2023 CCS Cross Country Championships on Saturday, October 28 in Tallulah Falls, Ga.
Women's Cross Country 2023 Schedule
Skyler Seeber
Skyler Seeber
  • Senior Jaycie Ponce won the individual title at the CCS Championship while the women's team won the inaugural team title.
    • Ponce's time moved her into second place all time in the Piedmont record book.
  • Anna Gibson and Skyler Seeber finished in the top 5, both running PRs.
  • LeeAnn Lawrence also added a PR time to the list, finishing inside the Top 10.
  • Ponce, Seeber and Gibson all earned CCS First Team All-Conference honors while Lawrence picked up CCS Second Team All-Conference honors.
  • At the NCAA South Regional, Ponce finished 15th overall, earning her All-Region honors and a trip the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships.
    • She became the First Lady Lion in history to earn all-region honors twice in her career and the second to ever qualify for the Division III Championships.
  • Ponce turned in a time of 25:14.7 in snowy Lansing, Michigan at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships.
2022 Season Recap: Women's Cross Country
2022 NCAA D3 Cross Country Championship
Jaycie Ponce
  • The roster sees star Jaycie Ponce return for her 5th year as standout Skyler Seeber returns for year two.
  • Hannah Marlowe and Victoria Drouin return to the team looking to step up to fill the shoes of now graduated Lawrence and Imani Vincent.
  • The squad sports two freshman and track runner Bella Caccamo joins the 2023 roster.
Women's Cross Country Roster
  • Jamie Jimison is entering his fifth year at Piedmont as Director of Cross Country and Track and Field in the fall of 2023.
  • In his cross country coaching career as a Lion, Jimison’s teams have never finished lower than fourth in the USA South conference championships on either the men’s or women’s competitions. 
    • Now in the CCS, his women's team has set the mark high as they will hunt their second CCS Championship in as many years.
Jamie Jimison
Jamie Jimison

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