St. Paul, Minn. --- The office of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference has announced that Minnesota State senior cross country runner James Krajsa (Moorhead, Minn.) has been named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Men’s Athlete of the Week.

Krajsa won the St. Olaf Invite this weekend with a time of 25:21, finishing 23 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher and 52 seconds faster than the next highest Division II finisher (who finished sixth.) The Minnesota State men's cross country team finished first out of 17 teams in the 2009 St. Olaf Invitational Cross Country Meet.

The Mavericks travel to Minneapolis, Minn., for the Griak Invitational on September 26, 2009.