NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s Aron Sebhat was named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week Tuesday.

Sebhat, a sophomore from Skokie, Illinois and Niles North High School (Exercise Science major), was the Cardinals’ and the CCIW’s top finisher at Wheaton’s Gil Dodds Invitational on Saturday, placing fourth in the 8K with a time of 24:57. It was just his second race of the season and a more than two-minute improvement over an 18th-place finish at the Hanover Madison Kiwanis Invitational on September 7. North Central rested many of its top competitors and still came up just two points shy of winning the meet, placing second behind third-ranked Washington University in St. Louis.

2013 CCIW Men's Cross Country Athletes of the Week
Aron Sebhat – North Central (9/24/13)
Will Cross – Elmhurst (9/17/13)
John Crain – North Central (9/10/13)
Mark Giannis – Illinois Wesleyan (9/4/13)

The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services eight member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2012-13 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,400 academic all-conference recipients, 15 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-Americans, 30 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients, 68 all-Americans and one national championship team.