NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s Zach Plank earned his second College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week honor of the season on Tuesday.
 
Plank, a junior from Dunlap, Illinois and Dunlap High School (Actuarial Science major), won the individual title in the Gold Division at the Notre Dame Invitational on Friday against mostly NCAA Division I competition. He finished the five-mile course with a time of 24:30.8 and became the third Cardinal runner to claim a first-place finish at Notre Dame in the last six years, joining Michael Spain (2010) and John Crain (2013).
 
2015 CCIW Men's Cross Country Athletes of the Week
Zach Plank – North Central (10/6/15)
Keith Sands – Augustana (9/29/15)
Dereck Woodcock – Wheaton (9/22/15)
Keith Sands – Augustana (9/15/15)
Zach Plank – North Central (9/9/15)
 
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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 2014-15 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,500 academic all-conference recipients, 19 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 46 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and 102 all-Americans.