TERRE HAUTE, Ind. --- On a cold, blustery day, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sophomore Teghan Henderson ran with the front group and earned All-American status at the 2013 NCAA Cross Country National Championships Saturday afternoon at the LaVern Gibson Cross Country Championship Course.

With temperatures dipping into the upper 20s and very low 30s, Henderson finished the 6-kilometer course in a time of 20:23.8 placing 20^th overall. She was 16^th at the 2k split with a time of 6:17.0. Two-thirds of the way through the race, she had dropped back seven spots to 23^rd and was running with a time of 13:19.4.

Indiana experienced tornadoes and rain earlier this week and that caused the race conditions to be so bad that the start line for both the men and women was moved forward more than 100 meters. As a result, no time records would be set today.

Henderson, ranked 56^th going into today’s race, followed the strategy she has used all season and that was to get out among the lead runners and hang in.

Henderson won all three regular season races in which she was entered this season, missing only the Greater Louisville Classic due to injury. She finished first at the Southern Conference Championships and finished out of first place by two spots and less than two seconds at the NCAA South Region. That earned her a spot in the national championships.

Henderson’s 20^th place finish is just one spot behind UTC’s five-time All-American Shannon Wommack who placed 19^th in the 2005 NCAA National Championships. Henderson becomes the fourth cross country All-American for UTC. Wommack earned the honor twice (2004, 2005) and Kathleen Turchin placed in the Top 40 in 2004.