White and Halterman Collect National Honors from USTFCCCA

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NEW ORLEANS – The USTFCCCA announced its 2025 NAIA Cross Country National Awards, with Head Coach Quinn White named the NAIA National Women's Coach of the Year and Jaynie Halterman repeating as the NAIA Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year.  

White was named the USTFCCCA Women's Coach of the Year for the second time in his tenure at Taylor after leading the Trojans to a NAIA National Championship. White announced he is retiring after this season and goes out on top after an illustrious coaching career at TU.

Leading the Trojans to a 119-6 record throughout the season, White improved his career mark to 1,662-225 at TU. This season's squad finished ahead of every NAIA opponent it faced only being outrun by NCAA Division I schools in the Seminole Invite in October.

The Trojans finished first in every race against NAIA competition including bringing home their second red banner in program history at the NAIA National Championships, with the first coming in 2022.  

Halterman repeated as the USTFCCCA NAIA National Women's Athlete of the Year after earning the award last season. The standout sophomore won all but one race this season and defeated every NAIA competitor she faced.

The dynamic Thompson's Station, Tennessee native repeated as the NAIA Individual Champion and was named the Crossroads League Runner of the Week four times, the NAIA Runner of the week twice and the USTFCCCA NAIA Athlete of the Week once this season.

Halterman broke Taylor's and Indiana Wesleyan's course record this season and reset the NAIA National Championship 6k record with a time of 20:13.2, over ten seconds faster than she ran a year ago.