Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 10 No. 6 | June 2018

V irginia Tech featured a stacked men’s cross country team this past fall, one that included a group of seniors. But an underclassman led the way with a dominant season. Showing his ability to run long distances at a consistent pace, Peter Seufer finished as the Hokies’ top runner in four of the five races that he ran this past season, and he also finished in the top 10 on all four of those occasions. He started the season running in the Virginia Tech Alumni Invite and concluded the 8K version of Tech’s cross country course in a time of 25 minutes, 11.6 seconds to come in sixth—and finishing just a tenth of a second behind teammate Vincent Ciattei. That race sparked a tremendous season for Seufer, as he went on to finish 15th at the Louisville Sports Commission meet and then came in second in the Adidas Pre-Nationals, earning himself national acclaim M E N ’ S C R O S S C O U N T R Y SEUFER JR • LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA Peter with such a strong performance in what was a loaded field. At the ACC Championships, he came in seventh, and at the NCAA Southeast Regional, he finished ninth at the Panorama Farms course outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. Behind Seufer and that veteran group of runners, the Hokies finished second at the NCAA Southeast Regional and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships—the program’s seventh appearance and third since 2012. Seufer closed the season by finishing a team-best 45th at the NCAA meet, which was held in Louisville, Kentucky. Seufer earned All-ACC and All-Southeast Region honors for the first time in his career. With so many seniors departing from the men’s team, he figures to be the leader of this group once again, as the Hokies head into the 2018 fall season. 24 Inside Hokie Sports