BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's cross country team tied its conference record with 11 postseason honorees and head coach Luke Kopnick was named the Coach of the Year in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Men's Cross Country Awards, as announced on Thursday.

Kopnick was voted the MIAC Coach of the Year by his peers, while five Oles earned All-MIAC honors and six claimed Honorable Mention All-MIAC honors in the conference awards. St. Olaf's 11 combined individual honorees tied the 2023 and 2025 teams for the most combined honorees in the history of the conference.

In his first season leading the program, Kopnick guided St. Olaf to its fifth consecutive MIAC team title, which was the 14th MIAC crown in program history. Kopnick's team had five of the top 15 and 11 in the top 25 at the MIAC Championships.

Junior Garrett Seppanen (2nd), sophomore Connor Hitchcock (5th), senior Alex Bjork (8th), junior Corbin Hobert (9th), and senior Quinn McCabe (12th) were St. Olaf's five All-MIAC performers by virtue of their top-15 individual finishes on Saturday. Hitchcock claimed his second consecutive All-MIAC accolade and Bjork added all-conference honors to his back-to-back honorable-mention accolades in 2024 and 2025, while the other three were first-time honorees.

Sophomore Noah DuVivier (16th), first year Lev Dougherty (17th), first year Owen Riter (20th), sophomore Ian Guasco (21st), sophomore Evan Goddard (22nd), and senior Ethan Cozine (25th) all landed in the Honorable Mention All-MIAC slots (places 16-25). DuVivier's 16th-place finish earned him a second honorable-mention accolade in a row.

St. Olaf will be back in action on its home course for the NCAA Division III North Region Championships at noon on Saturday, Nov. 14.