NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- North Central's Dianne Barajas won her second-straight College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Week honor on Tuesday.

Barajas, a junior from Hoffman Estates, Illinois and Schaumburg High School (Graphic Design major), won the Brismann-Lundeen Invitational, hosted by Augustana, on Friday. She finished with a season-best time of 22:02.0 in the 6K, winning by 11 seconds in a field of 324 athletes. It was Barajas' second-straight individual title following a first place finish at the Gil Dodds Invitational on September 15. On Friday, North Central won the title in a field of 27 teams.

2018 CCIW Women’s Cross Country Athletes of the Week
Dianne Barajas – North Central (9/25/18)
Dianne Barajas – North Central (9/18/18) 
Emily Gilligan – Elmhurst (9/11/18)
Madelyn Scopp – North Central (9/4/18)

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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 2017-18 academic year, the CCIW honored over 2,100 academic all-conference recipients, 15 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 28 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients, and over 100 all-Americans.