GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – After running its way to the program’s second consecutive NCAA title, the NC State women’s cross country team again led ACC season honors as announced by the league on Tuesday.
National gold medalist and ACC champion Katelyn Tuohy earned ACC Women’s Runner of the Year honors in a vote of the league’s 15 head coaches, while Laurie Henes was selected as the ACC Women’s Coach of the Year for the seventh consecutive season.
North Carolina’s Parker Wolfe was chosen the ACC Men’s Runner of the Year, and Wake Forest’s John Hayes earned ACC Men’s Coach of the Year accolades for the first time.
The ACC honors continue a wave of recognition for all four recipients. Tuohy was named the USTFCCCA National Women’s Athlete of the Year last week, while Henes earned National Women’s Coach of the Year laurels for the second consecutive season. Both had received Southeast Regional awards from the USTFCCCA earlier in November.
North Carolina’s Wolfe was named the USTFCCCA Men’s Southeast Regional Athlete of the Year, while Hayes was tabbed Southeast Regional Men’s Coach of the Year.
After winning the NCAA title in the 5,000 meters at the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last June, NC State’s Tuohy followed up with an NCAA cross country gold medal, finishing with a 6K course-record time of (19:27.6) on November 19 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The Stony Point, New York, native also won the Southeast Region Championship and the ACC championship, where she also set a course record at Virginia’s Panorama Farms with a time of 19:08.9 which was 40 seconds faster than the previous mark.
During the regular season, Tuohy also finished first at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational and the Joe Piane Invitational.
In her 17th year as head coach at NC State, Henes’ Wolfpack capped off an undefeated season with the second straight NCAA title, becoming the school’s first program to repeat as national champions in a team sport. The Wolfpack also won the Southeast Region Championships, ACC Cross Country Championships, Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, Joe Piane Invitational and adidas Wolfpack Invitational.
Tuohy and Kelsey Chmiel, this season’s NCAA bronze medalist and ACC runner-up, were among the four All-Americans Henes coached this season. Five Wolfpack runners earned All-ACC honors.
Henes was named the Southeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year for the seventh straight time and 11th time overall. The ACC Coach of the Year honor is her eighth overall and the 23rd for an NC State women’s head coach.
Wolfe, who hails from Denver, Colorado, finished as the Southeast Region and the ACC's top male athlete at the 2022 NCAA Championships on November 19 with a ninth-place 10K showing in 29:00.4.
Eight days earlier, Wolfe took runner-up honors at the Southeast Region Championships – the same place he finished at the ACC Cross Country Championships in October. Wolfe finished less than a half-second out of first place at the ACCs and less than two seconds behind in the Southeast Region.
During the regular season, Wolfe won the individual title at the Paul Short Run with one of the fastest times in meet history.
Hayes led Wake Forest to its first ACC title since 1994 and its best NCAA Championship finish (fifth) since 1989. Individually, Hayes coached three All-Americans including Zach Facioni, the first three-time All-American in program history.
The Demon Deacons placed four runners among the top eight at the ACC Championships to finish 42 points ahead of second-place Syracuse.
Hayes also coached four All-ACC runners, which tied the program record for the most all-conference standouts in a single season.
The Demon Deacons placed third at the NCAA Southeast Regional. During the 2022 season, Wake Forest finished no lower than sixth in any meet and finished among the top three on all but one occasion.
Hayes became the first head coach in program history to be named Regional Coach of the Year three times. This marks the fifth time Wake Forest has claimed the ACC Men’s Coach of the Year honor and the first time since John Goodridge won back-to-back in 1993 and 1994.
As announced in October, the ACC Men’s and Women’s Freshmen of the Year were determined by order of finish at the ACC Championships. with the first true freshman finisher in each race taking honors. Notre Dame’s Izaiah Steury won on the men’s side with his ninth-place time of 23:17.9. Duke’s Dalia Frias was the top women’s freshman with a 31st-place time of 20:28.4.