Before playing in a scrimmage for the soccer team Friday afternoon, Michaela finished fifth out of 58 runners Friday morning at the season-opening Lubbock Christian University Invitational, covering the 3.1-mile course at Chaparral Golf Course in 19 minutes, 37.60 seconds. Coach Brian Whitlock called Michaela, a sophomore from Artesia, N.M., "my hardest-working and most-dedicated girl, and that really shows. If I had a whole team of runners as dedicated as her we would be unstoppable. Michaela has developed into a good runner. She's right there with my two all-Americans and has put herself in a position to be very successful."