NAPERVILLE, Ill. – North Central’s Zach Plank was named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week for the fourth time this season on Tuesday.
 
Plank, a senior from Dunlap, Illinois and Dunlap High School (Actuarial Sciences major), won the individual championship at UW-Oshkosh’s Kollege Town Sports Invitational on Saturday. He led the 551-man field with a time of 24:46.2 as the Cardinals also won the team title with just 24 points.

2016 CCIW Men’s Cross Country Athletes of the Week
Zach Plank – North Central (10/18/16)
Michael Von Borstel – Carthage (10/11/16)
Zach Plank – North Central (10/4/16)
Tanner Osing – Augustana (9/27/16)
Dhruvil Patel – North Central (9/20/16)
Zach Plank – North Central (9/13/16)
Zach Plank – North Central (9/7/16)
 
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), 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 2015-16 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,600 academic all-conference recipients, 14 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 36 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and over 100 all-Americans.