BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Head coach Brian Power and first year Connor Hitchcock earned major awards as 11 members of the No. 20-ranked St. Olaf College men's cross country team were honored in the 2025 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Men's Cross Country Awards on Thursday.

Power was named the MIAC Coach of the Year and Hitchcock was selected as the MIAC Rookie of the Year in the conference's annual awards, following the MIAC Cross Country Championships on Saturday. St. Olaf also had conference-record-tying seven All-MIAC honorees and four Honorable Mention All-MIAC honorees, with the seven all-conference selections marking the third time in recorded conference history that one institution had seven All-MIAC performers (St. Thomas 1990, St. Olaf 2023).

In his sixth season, Power earned his third MIAC Coach of the Year accolade in cross country (2022, 2024, 2025) after leading St. Olaf to its fourth consecutive conference title with 33 points and a 51-point margin of victory. Power is the fifth coach in conference history to be at least a three-time Coach of the Year in men's cross country and the second St. Olaf head coach to do so (Phil Lundin six times).

Hitchcock received MIAC Rookie of the Year honors after leading all first-year runners at the conference meet with a 14th-place performance, also collecting All-MIAC honors in the process. The Sitka, Alaska native is the first Ole to earn MIAC Men's Cross Country Rookie of the Year honors since the award was established in 2022.

Hitchcock was joined on the all-conference list be senior Kevin Turlington (2nd), senior Jack Deaver (5th), senior Gael Manzur Strandlund (6th), senior Eli Doran (9th), sophomore Cooper Gundersen (11th), and senior Ignatius Fitzgerald (12th). Turlington's All-MIAC accolade was his third in a row, while Deaver and Strandlund collected a postseason accolade from the conference for the third consecutive season.

Junior Alex Bjork (17th), senior Angelo Fiataruolo (18th), senior Parker Max (21st), and first year Noah DuVivier (24th) were among the 10 Honorable Mention All-MIAC Honorees, an honor awarded to those who finished 16th through 25th at the MIAC Championships.

St. Olaf will run at the NCAA Division III North Region Championships on Saturday, Nov. 15 at noon at Whitetail Golf Course in Colfax, Wis.