Big 10 XC champ Bethany Hasz is crushing it this year during Covid-19
By David Monti, @d9monti
(18-Feb) With quiet determination and classic Midwestern grit, Bethany Hasz of the University of Minnesota has methodically climbed through the ranks of distance runners in the NCAA’s Big Ten Conference to reach its top echelon this year. The 23 year-old from Alexandria, Minn., who on January 30, won the individual Big Ten cross country title, is one of only six NCAA women to break nine minutes for 3000m this indoor season, and one of just ten to break 16 minutes for 5000m. Now preparing for her conference indoor championships at the end of February, she is undefeated in four winter race appearances, three on the indoor oval and one on the turf. Hasz, whose twin sister Megan also competes for Minnesota, isn’t getting ahead of herself.