2015 Nebraska Cross Country Media Guide | Page 24

MEGAN LUSH SENIOR / PLYMOUTH, MINN. (WAYZATA) 2014 (Junior) Megan Lush helped provide leadership for a young Husker squad in 2014...assisted the Huskers to a second-place finish with a time of 17:49.25 at the season-opening Augustana Twilight Invitational...followed with a 33rd-place finish at the Woody/Greeno Nebraska Invitational (23:57.70), helping the Huskers to a fifth-place team finish...ran to a No. 2 finish among the Huskers at the Roy Griak Invite, posting a time of 24:18...finished as Nebraska’s No. 4 runner at the Bradley Classic (23:03.9) to end the regular season...was Nebraska’s No. 6 finisher at the Big Ten Championships with a time of 22:57.5...wrapped up her junior season as Nebraska’s No. 5 finisher at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a time of 22.42.2...was named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and captured academic All-Big Ten accolades...was named to the Nebraska-Scholar Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters...was Nebraska’s winner of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award in 2014...was named to the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team in 2015...earned her bachelor’s degree from Nebraska in the spring of 2015. 2013 (Sophomore) Personal • Born Sept. 11, 1992 • Parents are Randy and Mary Jo Lush • Attended Wayzata HS in Minnesota • Major is biological systems engineering Career Honors » Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2015) » Academic All-Big Ten (2014) » Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2013, 2014; Spring 2014, 2015) » Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2014) » Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2015) 24 Lush joined the Nebraska cross country team just before the season-opening Augustana Twilight and did not compete in Sioux Falls...finished as the eighth Husker across the line at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational on Sept. 21...covered the course at Pioneers Park in Lincoln in 24:19.60 to finish 57th overall...was NU’s No. 4 finisher at the prestigious Roy Griak Invitational in Minnesota on Sept. 28...covered the course in Minneapolis in 23:44 to finish 162nd overall...closed the regular season as NU’s No. 8 finisher at the Tim Young Invitational in Vermillion, S.D., on Oct. 19...took 16th overall (19:41.23)...finished 87th overall (23:13.4) as NU’s No. 5 finisher at the Big Ten Championships in West Lafayette, Ind. on Nov. 3...was Nebraska’s No. 5 finisher again at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships in Ames, Iowa on Nov. 15...finished 152nd overall (22:53.1). Before Nebraska Lush was voted Most Improved Runner on the cross country team and was a team captain her senior year of high school...was a two-year letterwinner in cross country and a one-year letterwinner in track at Wayzata. Personal Megan Lush was born Sept. 11, 1992...daughter of Randy and Mary Jo Lush...majoring in biological systems engineering...earned her bachelor’s degree from Nebraska in the spring of 2015. 2015 NEBRASKA CROSS COUNTRY