UWL Women Win Sixth Straight Cross-Country Title

UW-La Crosse’s women’s cross-country team won its sixth consecutive WIAC championship, scoring 23 points and placing 11 runners among the top 17. Hailey Carroll finished second, while UW-Stout Polytechnic’s Claudia Lasiowski won the individual race; UWL now has 15 conference titles, second only to UW-Oshkosh’s 16. In preseason polls for 2026–27, UWL’s women’s basketball and men’s basketball teams were each picked to finish second in the WIAC. The women are coming off the program’s first conference tournament title and an Elite Eight appearance, while the men won their first WIAC tournament title and reached the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 last season.