MWC likes UNM runners

The UNM women’s cross country team, the defending NCAA champ, was selected as the favorite to win the 2016 Mountain West title, as voted by the league’s coaches in the women’s preseason poll. The Lobo men were picked fourth. The UNM women return All-Americans Alice

Wright, Calli Thackery and Rhona Auckland, plus key pieces in Natasha Bernal and Sophie Connor.